To the Right Honble. Thomas Lord Parker Baron of Macclesfield
Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain

May it please your Lordship

Representacon of
Justices to Ld. Chancellor
of their pceedings
touching the
dig to very of Psons
guilty of & fameness
Etc

In Obedience to his Majesty's comands signified by your Lordship
We the Justices of the peace for the County of Middlesex have
Made the most diligent Enquiry and search, in Order to Discover
any Society's of Persons who have been guilty of blasphemy or
any other in or mity's mentioned in his Majesty's late Declaracon
in Council, but not being able by the several publick
Advertisements We have caused to be put into the Gazetts
and by all the other Measures we have taken to find out
every such Clubs or Persons, or that there have been any
such Assemblys within our jurisdiction we can only assure
your Lordship that we will on all Occasions endeavour
with the utmost diligence and zeal to detect and bring to
punishment such desperate Wretches, who in defiance
of the Laws of God and man shall presume to commit
such horrid Impieties

We think ourselves also Obliged by the Directions from
his Majesty to represent to your Lordship that according
to the best Observations we have been capable of making
the Prophaneness and Debancery which prevails and
increases in this Town and County proceeds chiefly from
the Mascorades and Gameing Houses and from the
increase of Play Houses and Publick houses of all
sorts in all parts of the Town, and also from the
difficulties, which attend the presemtion and Suppression
of them

We find by experience that Vice and Immorality have
increased among all Degrees of Persons together with
these Nusances which have a natural tendency to
corrupt the principles and morals of those who frequent
them, And his Notorious, that all these Evils goe on
increasing, notwithstanding the means that have been
used to put a stop to them. There are now no less than
four Houses for acting Plays and Operas and there
are also new Gameing Houses erected at Bellsize and
Hampstead wells (besides others at Islington and
elsewhere) of which that at Hampstead Wells only, will
cost by computation some Thousand pounds in order to draw