Viewing Event Record: Requests, Burbage v Allen: Thomas Osborne deposes

Abstract

Cuthbert Burbage sues Giles Allen in Requests court over the Theatre playhouse property. Thomas Osborne, a carpenter, testifies 15 May 1600. Osborne admits that he was not familiar with the Theatre properties before James Burbage leased them, but affirms that he has worked on them intermittently over the last eighteen years and they are much improved from the state they were in. Osborne says that James Burbage built his own dwelling on the property soon after taking possession of it. Osborne provides details of the shoring up of the old decayed barn on the property. Osborne was one of several carpenters called upon by James Burbage to assess the value of the work he had done on the Theatre property and buildings on 18 July 1586. They agreed that Burbage's expenses could have come to no less than £240. He notes that at that appraisal, Bryan Ellam, William Botham and William Clerke said they had appraised the improvements on 20 November 1585 at £220.

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From: 15 May 1600 (Source of claim: original)

Date Event Happened

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From: 15 May 1600 (Source of claim: original)

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Theatre

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