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That the Continuance and Permission of these Fairs can in
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no respect answer any good and or Purpose and is certainly
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attended with manifold Inconveniences both to private Performs
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and Families and to the Public in general, This Court is
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therefore of Opinion that it is highly necessary to put an
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immediate Stop to these Fairs and thereby to the Growth and
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Increase of Vice Immorality and Prophanenessthat we
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may in some measure by these Means avert the Judgments
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which threaten the Kingdom and may thereby hope to bring
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down the Blessing of Almighty God upon us.
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And whereas this Court hath as this present General
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Sessions made an Order for preventing the Grievances aforesd.
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whereby it is recomended to the Justices in each Division by
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Warrant or Order under their Hands and Seals to require
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and Headboroughs within
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the respective Divisions in which the said Fairs or any of them
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are holden, to apprehend all and every Players of Interludes
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Plays or Drolls and other Persons who shall Act Exhibit or
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Shew any such Interludes Plays or Drolls, or play at, or
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encourage or procure any unlawful Game or Games to be
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played at in any Playhouse Booth, Shed, or other place in
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or near such Fair or Fairs and to carry all and every Person
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or Persons so offending before one or more of
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's Justices
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of the Peace for the said County to the End they may be punished
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according to Law, And to prevent Suppress as much as in
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them lies, all Tipling and Selling of Liquors in any unlicensed
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House Booth Shed or Place where the said Fairs or any of
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them are holden. This Court doth now further Resolve
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and Order that a Sufficient Number of the said Orders be
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forthwith printed and that the the High Constables respectively
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do cause the same to be posted up in Publick Places within
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their respective Divisions and particularly at and about the
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Place or Places where the said Fairs are usually kept for the
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better Notification thereof to the Intent that all Persons
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