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<p n="272">P adjorn Jovis <rs type="date" id="LMSMGO40000_date37">4o. die Decembrs. 1718</rs>
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<p n="273"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Order for inspecting<lb></lb>
laws in force agt.<lb></lb>
Keepers of gameing <lb></lb>
houses & houses of<lb></lb>
boundry Etc</note>
This Court being informed that divers evil disposed persons <lb></lb>
do in several places in this County keep publique Gameing <lb></lb>
houses and places for carrying on and encourageing the<lb></lb>
playing at Cards Dice Tables Billiards and other<lb></lb>
unlawfull Games whereby great Numbers of his Majesty's<lb></lb>
Subjects are encouraged to Assemble and meet together<lb></lb>
And many of them are defrauded of great Sumes of Money<lb></lb>
to the ruin of themselves and their Family's And that<lb></lb>
divers other evil disposed persons do keep Houses of<lb></lb>
bawdry and other Disorderly houses whereby a great<lb></lb>
many Young and unwary persons are Seduced <lb></lb>
debancked and utterly ruined It is Ordered by this<lb></lb>
Court that it be and It is hereby recomended unto Sr.<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO40000_n273-2">Henry Fetherston</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO40000_occ270">Bart</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMGO40000_occ270" type="occupation" value="Bart"></interp>
. Sr. <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO40000_n273-3">John Auston</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMGO40000_n273-3" type="given" value="John"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMGO40000_n273-3" type="surname" value="Auston"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMGO40000_n273-3" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO40000_occ271">Bart</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMGO40000_occ271" type="occupation" value="Bart"></interp>
. Sr. <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO40000_n273-4">James<lb></lb>
Misson</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMGO40000_n273-4" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO40000_occ272">Knight</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMGO40000_occ272" type="occupation" value="Knight"></interp>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO40000_n273-5">Martin Ryder</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMGO40000_n273-5" type="surname" value="Ryder"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMGO40000_n273-5" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO40000_n273-6">Joseph Offley</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMGO40000_n273-6" type="given" value="Joseph"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMGO40000_n273-6" type="surname" value="Offley"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMGO40000_n273-6" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO40000_n273-10">Robert<lb></lb>
Thornhill</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMGO40000_n273-10" type="surname" value="Thornhill"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMGO40000_n273-10" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO40000_n273-7">John Milner</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMGO40000_n273-7" type="surname" value="Milner"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMGO40000_n273-7" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO40000_n273-8">Thomas Bardus</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMGO40000_n273-8" type="surname" value="Bardus"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMGO40000_n273-8" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
and <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO40000_n273-9">John<lb></lb>
Fuller</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMGO40000_n273-9" type="given" value="John"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMGO40000_n273-9" type="surname" value="Fuller"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMGO40000_n273-9" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO40000_occ273">Esquires</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMGO40000_occ273" type="occupation" value="Esquires"></interp>
Nine of his Majesties <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO40000_occ274">Justices of the<lb></lb>
Peace</rs>
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for this County And such other Justices of <lb></lb>
the Peace for the said County as shall think fitt<lb></lb>
to be present or any three or more of them to<lb></lb>
inspect and consider what Laws are now in<lb></lb>
Force against persons Keeping of Gameing<lb></lb>
Houses or places for carrying on and<lb></lb>
encouraging such unlawfull Games as aforesaid<lb></lb>
And also against such persons as Keep houses of<lb></lb>
bawdry or other Disorderly houses to the End it<lb></lb>
may be concerted what methods may be used for<lb></lb>
the preventing and Suppressing such evil practices <lb></lb>
for the future And to certify an Account of the <lb></lb>
Matters hereby recomended unto them unto<lb></lb>
this Court.</p>
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