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thereof possessed accordingly and did receive & take the yssues 

 proffitt^ and coni7;/odities thereof But whether her said entrie 

 into the said parte or into any parte thereof was by virtue of a 

 divise or guift in & by the said will & testam 1 to her geven & 

 devised or not this def 1 saith he knoweth not And yet he 

 thincketh it to be true that the said testato 1 " Augustine Phillipps in 

 & by his said Last will & testament did geve & bequeath one third 

 parte of all his good<\y & chattells to the said Anne But this def 

 saith that he doth not thinck that the said Anne made her elecc/on 

 to haue a third parte of the partes Late of the said Augustine her 

 said husband of the said moitie of the said galleryes gardens & 

 ground as a legacie geven vnto her by the said will And this def 1 

 John Hemingr^ cloth also say that although the said testato 1 " 

 Augustine Phillipps in & by his said Last will and testam 1 did 

 ordeyne & make the said Anne his wife Executrix of his said Last 

 will & testament yet the same was not absolutely but onley with 

 proviso or vpon condic/on in the said will expressed that if the 

 said Anne his wife should at any time marrie after his decease 

 That then & from thenceforth shee should cease to be any more 

 or longer Executrix of his said Last will or any waves intermedle 

 with the same And that then and from thenceforth this def' 

 John Heming<\y the said Richard Burbadge William Slye & 

 Tymothie Whitehorn should be fully & wholie his executo rs of 

 his said Last will and testament as though the same Anne had 

 never byn named As by the same last will and testament ready 

 to be shewed to this honorable courte (to which said will this 

 said def 1 for the more certentie thereof doth referre himself) 

 more playnely appeareth. And this def 1 John Heming^ further 

 saith that the said Compla/aa/rt in or about the Moneth of Novem- 

 ber in the fourth Yeere of the Kinges Ma tes raigne of England 

 Did come to this def 1 , and making she we and affirming that the 

 said Anne and himself then stood in greate nede of money did 

 make offer to procure the said Anne to mortgage her said terme 

 of and in the said fiveth parte of the said Playhowse galleryes 

 gardens and grounds w ch was so regraunted to the said Augustine 

 Phillipps by the said Levison and Savage as is aforesaid vnto this 



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