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<p n="678">That the Continuance and Permission of these Fairs can in<lb></lb>
no respect answer any good and or Purpose and is certainly<lb></lb>
attended with manifold Inconveniences both to private Performs<lb></lb>
and Families and to the Public in general, This Court is<lb></lb>
therefore of Opinion that it is highly necessary to put an<lb></lb>
immediate Stop to these Fairs and thereby to the Growth and<lb></lb>
Increase of Vice Immorality and Prophanenessthat we<lb></lb>
may in some measure by these Means avert the Judgments<lb></lb>
which threaten the Kingdom and may thereby hope to bring<lb></lb>
down the Blessing of Almighty God upon us.</p>
<p n="679">And whereas this Court hath as this present General<lb></lb>
Sessions made an Order for preventing the Grievances aforesd.<lb></lb>
whereby it is recomended to the Justices in each Division by<lb></lb>
Warrant or Order under their Hands and Seals to require<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
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the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55602_occ758">High Constables</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55602_occ759">Petty Constables</rs>
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and Headboroughs within<lb></lb>
the respective Divisions in which the said Fairs or any of them<lb></lb>
are holden, to apprehend all and every Players of Interludes<lb></lb>
Plays or Drolls and other Persons who shall Act Exhibit or<lb></lb>
Shew any such Interludes Plays or Drolls, or play at, or<lb></lb>
encourage or procure any unlawful Game or Games to be<lb></lb>
played at in any Playhouse Booth, Shed, or other place in<lb></lb>
or near such Fair or Fairs and to carry all and every Person<lb></lb>
or Persons so offending before one or more of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55602_n679-1">his Majesty</rs>
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's Justices<lb></lb>
of the Peace for the said County to the End they may be punished<lb></lb>
according to Law, And to prevent Suppress as much as in<lb></lb>
them lies, all Tipling and Selling of Liquors in any unlicensed<lb></lb>
House Booth Shed or Place where the said Fairs or any of<lb></lb>
them are holden. This Court doth now further Resolve<lb></lb>
and Order that a Sufficient Number of the said Orders be<lb></lb>
forthwith printed and that the the High Constables respectively<lb></lb>
do cause the same to be posted up in Publick Places within<lb></lb>
their respective Divisions and particularly at and about the<lb></lb>
Place or Places where the said Fairs are usually kept for the<lb></lb>
better Notification thereof to the Intent that all Persons<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
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