P adjorn. Jovis Sexto die July 1727

Order for preventing
the acting of Drolls
and exerciseing
Unlawfull Games &
Plays at Tottenham
Court in the Parish
of St. Pancras and
elsewhere in Middx

This Court being Informed that Severall Common Players
of Interludes have for severall Yeares used and
accustomed to Assemble and meet together at or neare
a certaine place called Tottenhoe alias Tattenhall alias
Tottenham Court in the Parish of St. Pancras in this
County and to erect Booths and exhibite and act
Drolls, and use and exercise Unlawfull Games and
Plays, whereby great Numbers of his Majestyes
Subjects have been encouraged to assemble and
meet together, and to committ Riots and other
misdemeanors in breach of his Majestyes Peace and
to the Disturbance of the Neighbourhood of that
Place, And that some of the Said Players of Interludes
and other evil disposed Persons are now Seeking out
and contracting for Ground in or neare Tottenhoe als
Tattenhall als Tottenham Court aforesaid as well
as in other parts of this County to Build Booths for
Shewing and acting Such Plays and Drolls and for
carrying on and encourageing of divers Kinds of
Unlawfull Play and Gameing And Whereas all
Such Players of Interludes are deemed and declared
Rogues and Vagabonds, and the acting of such Plays
and Drolls and the Keeping of Publique Gameing
Tables or Gameing Houses are contrary to the
Laws and Statutes of this Realm, and doe
Mainfestly and directly send to the encouragement
of Vice and immorality and to the debauching and
ruining of Servants Apprentices and others
as well as to the disturbance of the Publique
Peace by occasioning Quarrells Riots and
tumults and other disorders whereby it will be
very difficult for the Justices and other Civil