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said bill named was thereof seised in his demesne as of fee as in 

 the said bill is alledged But the said def tes say that they do not 

 thincke that the said Augustine Phillips was so possessed of the 

 said terme of yeeres by force of a demise or lease to him the said 

 Augustine Phillipps made of all the same by the said Nicholas 

 Brend ymediatly/ ffor the said gardens and grounds wherevpon 

 the said Playhowse & galleryes were afterwards builded were 

 demised & letten by the said Nicholas Brend by his Jndenture of 

 lease tripartite bearing date in or about the xxj th day of ffebruary 

 in the xlj tb yeere of the raigne of the late Oueene Elizabeth vnto 

 Cuthbert Burbadge Richard Burbadge William Shakespeare the 

 said Augustine Phillipps Thomas Pope the said John Hemings 

 one of the said def tes and William Kempe To have and to hould 

 the one moitie of the said garden plotts and ground to the said 

 CuthbtTt Burbadge and Richard Burbadge their executo rs admin- 

 ?'strato rs & assignes from the ffeast or the birth of our Lord god 

 Last past before the date of the said Jndoituve vnto thend & 

 terme of xxxj yeeres from thence next ensuing for the yeerely 

 rent of seaven pounds & five shillings And to haue & to hould 

 thoth r moitie of the said garden plotts & grounds vnto the said 

 William Shakespeare Augustine Phillipps Thomas Pope the said 

 John Hemings one of the said def tes & William Kempe their 

 executo rs admimstrafar.? & assignes from the said ffeast of the 

 Birth of our Lord god then last past before the date of the said 

 Jndenture vnto the said full end & terme of xxxj yeeres from 

 thence next ensuing for the like yeerely rent of seaven pounds & 

 five shillings. Which said W m Shakespeare Augustine Phillipps 

 Thomas Pope John Flemings & William Kempe did shortlie 

 after graunte & assigne all the said Moitie of & in the said gardens 

 & grounds vnto William Levison and Thomas Savage who re- 

 graunted & reassigned to eucrye of them seiu'rally a fift parte of 

 the said Moitie of the said gardens & grounds, Vpon w ch prem- 

 isses or some parte thereof there was shortly after built the said 

 then Playhowse. So as the said Augustine Phillipps had a fiveth 

 parte of the moitie of the said gardens & grounds & after the 

 said Playhowse was built he had a fiveth parte of the said galleryes 



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