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of the said Playhowse in ioynt tenancie w th the said William 

 Shakespeare Thomas Pope the said John Hemingr^ & W m 

 Kempe & as tenant in Common during the said terme of yeeres 

 demised by the said Nicholas Brend as aforesaid as the said def tes 

 do take it But the said def tes do say that about the time of the 

 building of the said Playhowse & galleryes or shortlie after a 

 third parte of the fiveth parte of the said Moitie of the said Play- 

 howse galleryes gardens & ground w ch was the fiveth parte of the 

 said William Kempe did come vnto the said Augustine Phillipps 

 by a graunt or assignem* of the said fiveth parte made by the 

 said W m Kempe to the said W m Shakespeare the said John 

 Heming^ one of the said def tes and the said Augustine Phillipps./ 

 W ch said Last menczoned fiveth parte did shortlie after come to 

 Thomas Cressey by the graunte & assignem 1 of the said W m 

 Shakespeare the said John Hemingt\? and Augustine Phillipps w ch 

 said Cressey did shortlie after regraunte and reassigne the said 

 fiveth parte to the said William Shakespeare John Heming^ - 

 Augustine Phillipps & Thomas Pope as the said def tes do take it. 

 So as the said Augustine Phillipps then had a fiveth parte and the 

 fourth parte of another fiveth parte of the said moitie of the said 

 playhowse galleryes gardens and grounds as the said def tes do 

 verily beleeve for & during the same terme of yeeres/ And the 

 said def* John Heming^ doth also say that he thincketh it to be 

 true that the said Augustine Phillipps being so of one fiveth parte 

 and of the fourth parte of another fiveth parte of the said moitie 

 so possessed in or about the time in the said bill menc/oned made 

 his Last will & testam 1 in writing & thereby made his then wife 

 Anne his executrix of his said Last will & testam 1 & shortlie after 

 died so possessed of the said terme of & in the said parte of the 

 said moitie as is aforesaid And that shortly after his decease his 

 said will was proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury as in 

 the said bill is alledged. And the said def* John Heming£\? doth 

 say that he likewise thincketh it to be true that by vertue of her 

 the said Annes being Executrix of the said will shee into the said 

 partes of the moitie of the said galleryes ground & playhowse late 

 of the said Augustine Phillipps as aforesaid did enter & was 



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