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Date: March 1, 1587
Repository: Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Stratford-upon-Avon, UK
Call number and opening: BRU15/1/101
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Et predictus Iohannes Shakesper per willielmum Court, Attornatum suum
venit et defendit vim et iniuriam, quando etc. Et dicit quod predictus
Nicholaus Lane accionem suam inde versus eum habere non
debet quia dicit quod narracio predicti Nicholai minus sufficiens
in lege existit ad quam ipse necesse non habet nec per legem
terre tenetur respondere; protestando quod predictus Henricus
Shakesper in narracione ipsius Nicholai specificatus per scriptum suum
obligatorium concessisset se teneri prefato Nicholao Lane in [blank]
libris pro solucione viginti & duarum librarum, videlicet in festo Sancti Michaelis
Archangeli vltimo preterito debito modo decem librarum, et in festo Sancti
Michaelis Archangeli ex tunc proximo futuro duodecim libras de predictis
viginti & duarum librarum residuarum, et non cognoscendo aliquam in
narracione predicti Nicholai fore vera, sed pro placito idem Iohannes
Shakesper dicit quod predictus Nicholaus Lane non solvebat
prefato Iohanni Shakesper quatuor denarios legalis etc in
consideracione assumpcionis et promissionis dicti Iohannis, ac salvis sibi
omnibus advantagiis tam ad narracionem quam ad querelam
predicti Nicholai, dicit vlterius quod ipse non assumpsit modo et forma
prout idem Nicholaus Lane in narracione sua predicta superius versus
eum narrauit Et de hoc ponit se super patriam etc