Middx

Order against the
Welch Fair< no role > .

At the General Quarter Session of the Peace of our
Sovereign Lord< no role > the King begun and holden for the County of
Middx at Hicks Hall in St. John Street in the County
aforesaid on Monday the eighth Day of July in the nineteenth
year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord< no role > George the Second
King of Great Britain Etc. and from thence continued by
Several adjornments until this Day to wit Thursday the
eleventh Day of the Same Month of July in the year aforesaid
and on the Same Day holden by adjornment at Hicks Hall
aforesaid in and for the Said County before Thomas Lane< no role > Esqr.
Sir Samuel Gower< no role > Knt John Milner< no role > Michael Leheup< no role >
Thomas Burdus< no role > George Bourne< no role > John Elliot< no role > This name instance is in set 3963. Thomas
Fothergill Nathaniel< no role > Chandler Stephen Beckingham< no role >
Francis Hole< no role > Samuel Tatem< no role > Charles Egerton< no role > Richard
Ricards< no role > Henry Broadhead< no role > George Errington< no role > Charles
Estwick< no role > John Poulson< no role > John Lawton< no role > Esqrs . and other their
Fellows Justices of our Said Lord the King assigned to keep
the Peace in the County aforesaid and also to hear and
determine divers Felonies Trespasses and other Misdeeds
committed in the Same County.

It being represented unto this Court that it is requisite
and necessary and may be of Service to the Publick that Some
Endeavours Should be used for the Suppressing of loose idle
and disorderly Persons Such as Players of Interludes Gamesters
and other Vagabonds resorting to a pretended Fair called the
Welch Fair< no role > and else where in the Parish of St. James
Clerkenwell within Finsbury Division in the County of
Middx who have infested and do continue to infest the Said
Parish to the Prejudice of Youth Corruption of good Manners
and Detriment of Trade and Lawful Business This Court
upon Consideration of the Premisses Doth for preventing
Such Mischiefs for the future Order that it be, and it is
hereby recommended and referred unto his Majesty< no role > 's Justices