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P adjorn Jovis
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13o. die Octobris 1720
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to attend the Lord
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cheife Justice Pratt
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touching the putting
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agt. the Keepers &
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Frequenters of
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publique Gameing
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Jacob Harvey
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Whereas their Excellencys the Lords Justices have
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taken notice that there is a great Number of comon and
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publique Gameing Houses and other disorderly Houses and
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Night Houses in this County, where many loose Persons
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resort to and play at dice cards and other new invented
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unlawfull Games, whereby many Persons are defrauded
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of their substance, and divers riots affrays & blood sheds
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are comitted there, & such Houses are publique Nusances
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And the effectual Suppressing thereof hath been recomended
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by their Excellencys to his Majestys Justices of the
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Peace for this County Now upon Information given
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unto this Court that Several Justices of the Peace
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for this County have assembled and met together
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to put the Laws in Execution against Persons who
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keep and also against the Persons who Frequent
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Such publique Gameing Houses and play at unlawfull
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Games, and for that purpose the said Justices have
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repaired to such Gameing Houses in Order to See
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what unlawfull Games were therein used, and
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what Persons were playing thereat, to the end they
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might apprehend and prosecute the Persons who
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keep the said Gameing Houses and also the Persons
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resorting thereto to use Such unlawfull Games, but
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that the said Justices have not been able to enter
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into the said Gameing Houses and Gameing Rooms
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therein to discover the said Offenders for that the
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Keepers of Such Gameing Houses have Strong
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Hatches to their Street doors and also to the doors of
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their Inner Rooms with Sharp Iron Spikes over the
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said Hatches, which Hatches are kept fast locked &
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are guarded by Soldiers who refuse to let the said
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Justices of Peace or any Constable enter the said
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Gameing Houses or Inner Roomes, whereby they
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are obstructed from entring the same, & putting
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the said Laws in Execucon, This Court for the
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obtaining redress in the premisses and to the
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intent that the Offenders above mentioned may
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