Middlesex Sessions:
General Orders of the Court
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28th February 1734 - 14th April 1743

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aforesaid, as well as in other Parts of this County, to Build Booths,
for Shewing and Acting such plays and Drolls, and other Shows, and for
carrying on and Encourageing of divers kinds of Unlawfull Play and
Gaming: And Whereas all such players of Interludes are deemed
and declared Rogues and Vagabonds; And the Acting of such plays
Drolls, and other Shows, and the keeping of publick Gaming Tables,
or Gaming Houses, are contrary to the Laws and Statutes of this
Realm, and do Manifestly and directly tend to the Encouragement
of Vice and Immorality and to the debauching and ruining Servants,
Apprentices and others, as well as to the Disturbance of the publick
peace, by Occasioning Quarrells, Riots, Tumults, and others
Disorders:

For the Preventing of which Mischiefs for the future It is
thought fitt and Ordered by this Court, That the High Constable of
Holborn Division in this County, do forthwith Issue forth his
precepts to the Petty Constables of Tattenhoe, alias Tattenhall
alias Tottenham . Court and other the Constables and Headboroughs
of the Parish of St. Pancras , requiring them in case any of
the said Comon Players of Interludes, or others, shall Act,
Exhibit, or Shew, any such Plays, Drolls, or other Shows, or
keep any Gaming Houses, or Gaming Tables, to Apprehend
and carry all persons so Offending before one or more of his
Majesty's Justices of the peace for this County dwelling nearest
to the places where any such Booths or Gaming Houses or Gaming
Tables shall be Erected or Erecting, to the End they may be Punished,
According to the Lacos in such case made and provided, And the
said high and petty Constables, and all other Officers, are
hereby required to give publick Notice of this Order, by Affixing
the same on the most notorious places, or by such other Ways on
and means as they shall think most proper, within their
respective Divisions for the better Notification thereof

And it is further Ordered, That all other the High Constables,
Petty Constables, and other Officers, within this County, where
any Booths shall be Erecting, or where they shall be credibly
Informed any such Drolls, plays, or other Shows, or Gaming, are
Intended to be Acted, Exhibited, Shew'd or carry'd on shall Act in
the same or like manner, and Observe and Obey the same
Orders, within their respective Jurisdictions, Divisions, or
Parishes, as is before ordered concerning the high Constable,
Petty Constables and other Officers of Holborn Division. And for
the better preventing or Suppressing of the Disorders aforesaid,
It is also Recommended to the Justices of the peace within their
their several Divisions, to Meet together to take and Use such
lawful Means as may be most effectual for preventing the




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