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<p n="563">P adjorn Veneris <rs type="date" id="LMSMGO40000_date63">4o. die Decembr. 1719</rs>
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<p n="564"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Order for Suppressing<lb></lb>
unlawfull Assemblys of<lb></lb>
Loose idle & disorderly<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
sons in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO40000_geo373">Lincolns feilds</rs>
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Etc</note>
<lb></lb>
<note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO40000_n564-1">Robt. Thornhill</rs>
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Esqr.<lb></lb>
St. <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO40000_n564-2">Hen Fetherston</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO40000_occ438">Bart</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO40000_n564-3">Narcissus Luttrell</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO40000_n564-4">Jon. Richrdson</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO40000_n564-5">D'oyly Michel</rs>
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} <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO40000_occ439">Esqrs</rs>
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.</note>
Upon complaint made unto this Court by severall of the <lb></lb>
Inhabitants of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO40000_geo374">Lincolns Inn</rs>
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Fields in the Parish of St.<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO40000_geo375">Giles in the fields</rs>
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in this County that great Numbers of loose<lb></lb>
idle and disorderly Persons do daily assemble & meet together<lb></lb>
in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO40000_geo376">Lincolns Inn</rs>
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fields aforesaid, some on pretence of<lb></lb>
Wrestling, others to play at Cudgells, others to throw<lb></lb>
at Cocks, and others on pretence of useing Divers Games<lb></lb>
(which are prohibited by Law) and defraud Severall of<lb></lb>
his Majestys<obscured></obscured>
Subjects of their Money, and that divers<lb></lb>
others of them<obscured></obscured>
frequently gallop and ride Horses cross the<lb></lb>
foot paths & highways there without any reall occasion for<lb></lb>
so doing, and that great disorders and disturbances are<lb></lb>
comitted by such loose idle & disorderly by Persons Soe<lb></lb>
assembling as aforesaid to the great terror & disturbance<lb></lb>
of his Majestys Subjects passing through the said fields upon<lb></lb>
their lawfull occasions and of the Inhabitants resideing<lb></lb>
in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO40000_geo377">Lincolns Inn</rs>
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fields aforesaid, And that such Persons<lb></lb>
assemble in such great Numbers and committ such disorders<lb></lb>
that the severall Constables of the said Parish who<lb></lb>
have been required by Warrants from severall Justices<lb></lb>
of the Peace for this County to disperse them have been<lb></lb>
Severall times Assaulted in the Execution of their Office,<lb></lb>
and have complained that they are not able to suppress them<lb></lb>
For remedy whereof It is thought Fit and ordered, by this Court<lb></lb>
that the High Constables of Holborn Division in this County<lb></lb>
for the time being do take to his assistance the severall <lb></lb>
Petty Constables and Headboroughs within his Division<lb></lb>
or such a Number of them as he shall think sufficient,<lb></lb>
And that the said High Constable Petty Constables and<lb></lb>
Headboroughs do from time to time disperse such unlawfull<lb></lb>
Assemblys, and apprehend all such Persons whom they shall<lb></lb>
find offending in the Premisses or committing such like offences<lb></lb>
in Bloomsbury Square or in any other part of Holborne<lb></lb>
Division aforesaid, and carry them before some or one of<lb></lb>
his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for this County to the end<lb></lb>
they may be proceeded against for the same according to Law,<lb></lb>
And this Court doth declare this Order to be a Standing Order,<lb></lb>
And doth Esquire that the said High Constable and the Petty<lb></lb>
Constables and Headboroughs within Holborne Division<lb></lb>
aforesaid do from time to time hereafter well and truely<lb></lb>
Observe and performe the same,</p>
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