MIDDLESEX
.
To all constables, Headboroughs, and other Officers and Minis-
ters of the Peace
of our Lord the King, whithin the County of
Middlesex
, and to every of them whom it may concern
THESE are to will and require, and in His Majesty's Name
strictly to charge and command, that you, or some or one of
you, upon Sight hereof, take and bring Joseph Cooke< no role >
late of the Parish of Saint James within the Liberty
of Westminster
Yeoman
before us and others
His Majesty's Justices assigned to keep the Peace in the County
aforesaid, and also to hear and determine divers Felonies, Tres-
passes and other Misdemeanours committed in the same County,
at this present Session of the Peace, holden at Hicks-Hall
, in Saint
John-Street
, in and for the said County (if the Court shall be here
sitting) to answer to an Indictment found against h im or a cer-
tainTrespass and Misdemeanour in unlawfully keeping and mainta+ining
a certain common Garning Table called an E. O. Table used for playing and
certain unlawfull Game called E.O. the same being an unlawful play and Game
prohibited by the Laws and Statutes of this Realm and for Suffering divers Persons to
play and Game within And if the Court shall not be sitting at the Time of
such Taking, then that you, or some or one of you, forthwith af-
terward bring the said Party before us, or some other of His Ma-
jesty's Justices of the Peace
for the same County, to find sufficient
Surieties personally to appear at this present Session, to answer the
same Indictment, and all such other Matters as on His Majesty's
Behalf shall be here objected. And if he cannot be taken during
this present Session, then that you bring h im before us, or some
other of His Majesty's justices of the Peace
for the said County as
Speedily after as may be, to find such Sureties personally to appear
at the next Session of the Peace to be holden for the said County,
to answer as aforesaid, and further to be dealt with according to
Law. HEREOF you are not to sail at Your Peril. Given under
our Hands in open Session aforesaid this Twenty Ninth Day of
May in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven
Hundred and Eighty One
David Walker< no role >
Henry Lambr< no role >