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To the Right Honble. Thomas Lord Parker Baron of Macclesfield
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Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain
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May it please your Lordship
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Representacon of
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Justices to Ld. Chancellor
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of their pceedings
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touching the
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dig to very of Psons
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guilty of & fameness
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Etc
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In Obedience to his Majesty's comands signified by your Lordship
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We the Justices of the peace for the
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County of Middlesex
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have
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Made the most diligent Enquiry and search, in Order to Discover
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any Society's of Persons who have been guilty of blasphemy or
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any other in or mity's mentioned in his Majesty's late Declaracon
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in Council, but not being able by the several publick
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Advertisements We have caused to be put into the Gazetts
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and by all the other Measures we have taken to find out
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every such Clubs or Persons, or that there have been any
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such Assemblys within our jurisdiction we can only assure
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your Lordship that we will on all Occasions endeavour
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with the utmost diligence and zeal to detect and bring to
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punishment such desperate Wretches, who in defiance
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of the Laws of God and man shall presume to commit
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such horrid Impieties
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We think ourselves also Obliged by the Directions from
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his Majesty to represent to your Lordship that according
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to the best Observations we have been capable of making
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the Prophaneness and Debancery which prevails and
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increases in this Town and County proceeds chiefly from
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the Mascorades and Gameing Houses and from the
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increase of Play Houses and Publick houses of all
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sorts in all parts of the Town, and also from the
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difficulties, which attend the presemtion and Suppression
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of them
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We find by experience that Vice and Immorality have
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increased among all Degrees of Persons together with
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these Nusances which have a natural tendency to
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corrupt the principles and morals of those who frequent
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them, And his Notorious, that all these Evils goe on
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increasing, notwithstanding the means that have been
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used to put a stop to them. There are now no less than
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four Houses for acting Plays and Operas and there
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are also new Gameing Houses erected at
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wells (besides others at
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and
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elsewhere) of which that at
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Wells only, will
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cost by computation some Thousand pounds in order to draw
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