disposed Persons are now Seeking out and contracting for
[..] ound in or near the Place aforesaid to build Booths and
Sheds for Shewing and acting Such Plays and Drolls and
other Shows and for carrying on and encourageing of
divers Kinds of unlawful 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 of Servants
Apprentices and others as well as to the Disturbance of
the Publick Peace by occasioning Quarrells Riots Tumults
and other Disorders For the preventing of which Mischiefs
for the future It is thought fit and Ordered by this Court
That it be And it is hereby recommended and referred
unto his Majesty< no role > 's Justices of the Peace for the Said County
of Middlesex residing in Holborn Division aforesaid or to
any two or more of them by Warrant or Order to be granted
under their Hands and Seals as often as they Shall think
needfull to Order and require the High Constable of the Said
Division to Summon and take to his Assistance from Time to
Time the Several Petty Constables and Headboroughs within
the Said Division (whom this Court doth require to aid and
assist him herein) or So many of them as he Shall think
Sufficient for this Purpose and that he the Said High Constable
together with Such Petty Constables and Headboroughs whom
he Shall So take to his Assistance do apprehend all and every
Players of Interludes Plays or Drolls and other Persons who
Shall act exhibit or Shew any Such Interludes Plays or
Drolls, or play at or encourage or procure any unlawfull
Game or Games to be played at in any Play-House Booth
Shed or other Place in the Said Parish, And that the Said
High Constable and Petty Constables and Headboroughs as