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hope to doe, Without that that the said def tes haue made or 

 contrived to themselues or to any oth 1 * person or persons any 

 estate or estates of the said parte other then is aboue mencioned 

 & one Eight parte of the said moitie of the said playhowse gal- 

 leryes gardens & grounder grannted by the said def tes & oth r their 

 partners in the said moitie to Nathan ffield & one oth r estate made 

 to John Atkins gent in trust for the said def* John Heminge.? of 

 two litle parcells of the said ground by the said def 1 John Hem- 

 inges & the rest of the partners in the said Playhowse & premisses 

 vpon parte whereof the said John Heminge.? hath built a howse 

 And without that that the said def tes haue made or contrived to 

 themselues or to any oth r person or persons any secrett subtill or 

 fraudulent estates of purpose to defraud or defeate the said Com- 

 plainant or oth r wise as in & by the said bill of Complaint is very 

 falsely & slaunderously suggested And w th out that that any other 

 matter or thing in the said bill of Complaint conteyned materiall 

 or effectuall for the said def tes or eith r of them to answer vnto & 

 herein & hereby not sufficiently answered vnto confessed & 

 avoided denyed or traversed to these defe;/d tes knowledges is true 

 All w ch matters the said def tes & eith r of them are ready to averre 

 & prove as this Court shall award & do pray to be dismissed forth 

 of the same w th eith r of their reasonable coster & charges in this 

 behalf most wrongfully susteyned/ 



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REPLICATION. 



x° die Maij Anno Regiii Regis Jacobi 



Angliae ffranciae et Hibrrniae xvij° et Scotiae lij do / 



The Replicadon of John Wytter gentleman Complaynant 

 to the ioynt and seaverall Answeares of John Hem/7/ynges 

 and Henry Condall gentlemen Defend tes . 



The said Complayn 1 haueinge to him nowe and at all tymes hear- 

 after saued and allowed the benefitt of all exceptions and other 

 advantages whatsoever to the incertaintie insufficiencie and im- 



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