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principally seeketh to be releeved in this ho: Co rt Consisteth 

 Cheifely in theise two partes ffirst to obteine an interest in and to 

 one sixt parte of the said playe house or great Roame & galleries 

 vsed for playeinge in the said Comp ltes bill mendoned w ch as the 

 said Comp 11 suggesteth he bought of one John Marston gent in the 

 bill named which Marston as allsoe the said Comp 11 (though 

 vntruly) suggesteth had the same passed vnto him from Henry 

 Evans in the said bill allsoe menc/oned Vnto w oh said first parte 

 these def tes & eucrye of them for & by himselfe sayeth That the 

 said Henry Evans neuer graunted assigned or sett ouer any such 

 estate or terme at all of in or vnto the said howse Roome or 

 galleries vnto the said John Marston as in and by the said bill of 

 Comp" is supposed or any other estate or terme of in or vnto the 

 said howse Roome or galleries neither could he soe haue done if he 

 would but the same was & would haue bene presently voide for 

 that as these def tes by theire learned Counsell are en formed he the 

 said Henry Evans was restrained in & by his said lease had from 

 this def* Richard Burbage from grauntinge assigneinge or puttinge 

 away the premisses or any parte thereof for any terme whatso- 

 eurr or vnto any person whatsoeuer Neyther did the said Marston 

 as these def tes are Credibly enformed & doe verely beleeve to be 

 true sell graunte or assigne any parte at all in the said howse 

 Roome or galleries vnto the said Comp 11 Neyther is there any 

 menc/on at all made thereof in any deede or writinge made or 

 passed from the said Marston vnto the said Comp u as these def tes 

 are credibly enformed and doe verely beleeve to be true So as 

 then for the said first & most principall parte of the said Bill the 

 said Comp 11 hath noe iust Cause to Clamo r scandalize or Com- 

 playne against them these def tes . And as touchinge the Second 

 Mayne parte of the said Comp ltes bill of Comp 11 by which he allsoe 

 Claymeth to haue from these def tes one full sixt parte of the 

 Apparell goodly playebookes properties for playes & other like 

 things Complayned of in the said Comp ltes bill these def tes saye & 

 each of them for & by himselfe sayth that they nor any of them 

 now haue or at any tyme had any parte or porc/on of the said 

 good<\? apparell playe bookes properties & other like things 



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