divers kinds of unlawfull Play and Gaming which hath
manifestly tended to the Encouragement of Vice & Immorality
and to the debauching and raining of Servants Apprentices
and others and also to the disturbance of the Publick Peace
by occasioning Quarrels Riots Tumults and other Disorders
Which Players of Interludes are by Law 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 are contrary to the Laws and
Statutes of this Realm 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 Majestys Justices of the Peace for the
County of Middx residing within the Said respective
Divisions in which the Said Fairs above Specified or
any of them are holden 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 that Division in which Such
Fairs or any of them are holden and wherein Such Justices
reside 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 use their best
Endeavours to prevent and Suppress the Said Fairs and all
other unlawful Fairs within their Divisions, and also that
he and they 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 unlawful Game or Games to be played
at in any Playhouse, Booth Shed or other Place in or near Such