Of Such Information and Such behaviour hath Occasioned much expression
and great Disorder.

3.

That many Complaints have been made at the General and Quarter
Sessions by Several of the Principal Inhabitants of the said Division
of a Notorious House called Goodmans Fields well of which he is the Known
Landlord wherein Plays Interludes & other Disorders are often Acted
And the same being Open to all Persons to Enter into Gratis and wherein
Wine Punch Ale and Spirituous Liquors are constantly Sold at exorbitant
Prices and there freely drank during the said Plays Interludes Etc.
Notoriously Destructive to Numbers of his Majestys Subjects there to
resorting praying his Majestys Justices then Assembled to take
Order for Suppressing the same Whereupon the said Justices at Such
Sessions Did most Earnestly recommend to all the Justices of the said
Tower Division Speedily and Strictly to put the Laws in Execution
in that behalf.

That in Pursuance of Sure Recommendation the Other
Justices of the said Division have called upon the Said Justice
Sir Samuel Gower< no role > This name instance is in set 3163. who lives near to the said Playhouse desireing him
to Join with them in putting a stop to the said Irregularities but he
not Only Utterly refused to be Any wise Concerned there in but on the
Contrary the said Justice hath given and Continues to give all the
Countenance and Encouragement thereto as he is able by being present
with his Wife and Family during the Plays Interludes Etc and
Commending and Otherwise Encourageing the Actors thereof to the
great Incitement of Lowdness and all manner of Vice and Disorder.

That to the said Plays and Interludes great Numbers of Mean
Idle and Disorderly People do commonly resort and after the
Performance is Over from thence do go to the Bawdy houses before
mentioned or to other Houses of ill Fame near the said Wells or
Play house which the said Justices Apprehend are Chiefly Supported
by the concourse of Such Idle and unwary People as the said Plays
draw together greatly to the Corruption of the Morals of his Majestys
Subjects and Breach of the Peace.

That at the General and Quarter Session of the Peace held in
October last Vizt. On the County Day the 18th. of the said October the
said Justice Sir Samuel Gower< no role > This name instance is in set 3164. being then Present and Charged
with the several facts above recited by the said Richard Ricards< no role > .
Boulton Mainwaring< no role > Esquire and the rest of the Justices of the