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Image 228 of 26725th February 1762


By Adjournment on Thursday the 25th. of Febry 1762 .

Letter to be Wrote on a
Complaint agt. Mr.
Wrighte for discharge
3 persons out of Mary
bone Roundhouse.}

A Complaint being layd before this Court by Joseph Girdler< no role > Esqr . One
of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace for this County here present
against George Wrighte< no role > Esquire one other of His Majesty's Justices
of the Peace for this County for Causing Robert Crouch< no role > James
Smith and James Dunean three disorderly Persons, taken
on Sunday the 21st. Instant by Samuel Clay< no role > This name instance is in set 40714652. Gent . High Constable
of Holbourn Division and Thomas Watson< no role > Constable of Saffron
Hill Liberty George Tisdall< no role > Headbro in the Same Libty Wm. Ward
and John Groom< no role > Constables of the Parish of St Mary le Bone
all within the said Division his the Said High Constable's
Assistants by Virtue of a Warrant under the Hands and
Seals of Saunders Welch< no role > Luke Robinson< no role > John Sydenham< no role >
Esquires and the said Mr. Girdler four of His Majestys said
Justices acting in the said Division, for gaming and
Misbehaving themselves on the same Day and lodged by
him the said High Constable & his Assistants before named in
the Roundhouse , being a place of safety in the said Parish
of St. Mary le Bone until they could be conveniently carried
before a Magistrate to be dealt with according to law for
their Misdemeanour, to be set at large without first
examining the said Prisoners or their Apprehenders
touching the Charges against them and contrary to several
Orders of Regulation made at the sessions of the Peace
for this County The said High Constable was called in and
examined and he produced the abovementioned Warrant
bearing Date the 17th. Instant directed to him the said
High Constable and to the Petty Constables & Headboroughs in
the Said Division Reciting that it had been represented to
them the Said from Justices that great Numbers of loose idle
and disorderly Person assembled in the out parts of the said
Division every Lords Day during the Summer Season and prac
tise Gaming of Various kinds whereby Apprentices and others
are drawn into a neglect of public Worship of Almighty God
and into a train of evil Consequences Wherefore it was Com-
manded by the same Justices in & by the said Warrant that
the




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