P adjorn. Jovis Underimo die Octobrs. 1716

Order agt. psons who
committ. Nusances, & agt.
petty Constables who
pmitt. psons to Sing
[..] Seditions Songs & Vagrts.
to begg in the streets, & agt.
loose Boys Prtending to
them shoes, & for high
Constables to prsent the
defaults of their petty
Constables & Headboroughs

Jon. Milner< no role > Esqr.
Sr. Hen: Fetherston< no role > Bart .
Sr. Ja: Misson< no role > Knt.

Jos. Offley< no role >
Tho: Woodcock< no role >
Robt. Thornhill< no role >
Richd. Woolaston< no role >
Jon. Fuller< no role >
Jon. Verner< no role >
D'Oyly Michell< no role > } Esqrs .

This Court being informed by severall Inhitants of this County,
That notwithstanding the severall complaints by them made to his
now Maties Justices of the peace for the sd County against such
persons as daily Committ. great nusances in the publick Streets
within the Weekly Bills of Mortality in this County by opening
their Collar doors, and bringing their Shop boards into the footway
and by driveing Wheelbarrows, and by placeing of Stalls, Chairs, Stand
Wheelbarrows, basketts of fruit and other Goods in the publick Streets
Lanes and Passages, and of other such like offences, and against
such Inhabitants of this County, Who suffer the pavements before
their doors to be in [..] decay for want of repair, and alsoe
agt. the petty Constables and Headboroughs of this County Who
permitt and suffer severall cole and disorderly persons to assemble
in the publick Streets, Lanes and Passages and to sing & disperse
seditions Songs Ballads & pamphletts reflecting on his Matie &
his Government, and Alsoe permitt severall Inhabitants within
this County to keep Gameing Houses and disorderly Victualling
Houses and to entertain Severall lewd & disorderlyVictualling
Housespersons at unseasonable Hours, and alsoe permitt severall
Persons blind Lame or pretending soe to be and others with
distorted Limbs or pretending to some bodily infirmity to blow
themselves to beg in the Streets Highways or passages to the great annoyance
and danger of his Maties Subjects passing along the Streets and Highways
upon their lawfull occacons, and in Condempt of severall acts of
Parliament in such cases made and of the penalties therein contained
and of severall Orders made at the Generall and Quarter Sessions of the
peace held for this Countypresenting to the this CourtFor that the sd.
Constables and Headboroughs have been renass in their duty in
observance of the sd. Orders, and not carrying the Offenders before one
or more of his Maties Justices of the peace for this County to be
punished according to their Demerritts; And upon reading of a
presentment made unto this Court by the Grand Jury for this County
respresenting to this Court That of late there have been, and still
daily are divers loose idle and disorderly Boys who wander about
in Severall Streets and passages within the weekly Bills of
Mortality in this County under pretence of cleaning Shoes, and
with the money they get Hereby frequently Game using at their
Games most bitter Oaths and execrations and that they humbly
conceived them [..] to be Vagrants, and for the most part Theives
or their Spies and thereby very dangerous and prejudiciall to his
Maties Subjects, and a nusance lately to increase, of not timely
prevented, and that they hoped this Court would make an Order