Middlesex Sessions:
General Orders of the Court
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19th May 1743 - 22nd February 1753

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Middlesex .

At the General Quarter Session of the Peace of our Sovereign Lord< no role > the
King begun and holden for the County of Middlesex at Westminster in the
County aforesaid on Monday in the Week next after the Close of Easter, to wit,
the eighteenth Day of April in the twenty first year of the Reign of
our Sovereign Lord George the Second King of Great Britain France
and Ireland Defender of the Faith Etc and from thence continued by
Several adjournments until this Day to wit, Thursday the twenty first
Day of the Same Month of April in the year aforesaid and on the Same Day
holden by adjournment at Hicks's Hall in St. John Street in and for the Said
County before Thomas Lane< no role > Esqr Sir John Crosse< no role > Bart . John Milner< no role > James
Clitherow Luke Robinson< no role > Henry Norris< no role > Samuel Tyssen Stephen
Beckingham Robert Tothill Richard Ricards< no role > Samuel Tatem< no role >
Francis Hole< no role > Philip Dyot< no role > Henry Broadhead< no role > Peter Elers Ebenezer
Mussell William Withers< no role > George Errington< no role > Boulton Mainwaring< no role >
John Gascoyne< no role > John Poulson< no role > John Lawton< no role > Walter Berry< 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.

Order against unlawfull
Fairs.

It being represented unto this Court that Several common
Players of Interludes Gamesters and other loose idle and
disorderly Persons have for Several years used and accustomed
to assemble and meet together at Several Fairs or pretended Fairs
held in this County of Middx not warranted by Law to wit,
Tottenham Court Fair Hampstead Fair and Paddington Fair in
Holborn Division, the Shepherds Bush Fair in Kensington
Division, the Welch Fair in Finsbury Division , Mile End Fair
and Bow Fair commonly called Green Goose Fair in the Tower
Division, and May Fair in Westminster Division, Some of which
Fairs continue for a Fortnight and others for three Weeks, and
where great Numbers of People Stay till One or Two of the Clock
in the morning. And Such Players of Interludes and other
evil disposed Persons have frequently taken upon them to contract
for Ground and thereupon built Booths and Sheds where they have
acted Such Plays and Drolls and carried on and encouraged




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