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<p n="692">P adjorn. Jovis <rs type="date" id="LMSMGO55600_date121">Sexto die July 1727</rs>
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<p n="693"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Order for preventing<lb></lb>
the acting of Drolls<lb></lb>
and exerciseing<lb></lb>
Unlawfull Games &<lb></lb>
Plays at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55600_geo614">Tottenham</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Court in the Parish<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55600_geo615">St. Pancras</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
elsewhere in Middx</note>
This Court being Informed that Severall Common <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55600_occ918">Players</rs>
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<lb></lb>
of Interludes have for severall Yeares used and<lb></lb>
accustomed to Assemble and meet together at or neare<lb></lb>
a certaine place called Tottenhoe alias Tattenhall alias<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55600_geo616">Tottenham Court</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55600_geo617">Parish of St. Pancras</rs>
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in this<lb></lb>
County and to erect Booths and exhibite and act<lb></lb>
Drolls, and use and exercise Unlawfull Games and<lb></lb>
Plays, whereby great Numbers of his Majestyes<lb></lb>
Subjects have been encouraged to assemble and<lb></lb>
meet together, and to committ Riots and other<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55600_occ919">misdemeanors</rs>
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in breach of his Majestyes Peace and<lb></lb>
to the Disturbance of the Neighbourhood of that<lb></lb>
Place, And that some of the Said Players of Interludes<lb></lb>
and other evil disposed Persons are now Seeking out<lb></lb>
and contracting for Ground in or neare Tottenhoe als<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55600_geo618">Tattenhall als Tottenham Court</rs>
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aforesaid as well<lb></lb>
as in other parts of this County to Build Booths for<lb></lb>
Shewing and acting Such Plays and Drolls and for<lb></lb>
carrying on and encourageing of divers Kinds of<lb></lb>
Unlawfull Play and Gameing And Whereas all<lb></lb>
Such Players of Interludes are deemed and declared<lb></lb>
Rogues and Vagabonds, and the acting of such Plays<lb></lb>
and Drolls and the Keeping of Publique Gameing<lb></lb>
Tables or Gameing Houses are contrary to the<lb></lb>
Laws and Statutes of this Realm, and doe<lb></lb>
Mainfestly and directly send to the encouragement<lb></lb>
of Vice and immorality and to the debauching and<lb></lb>
ruining of Servants Apprentices and others<lb></lb>
as well as to the disturbance of the Publique<lb></lb>
Peace by occasioning Quarrells Riots and<lb></lb>
tumults and other disorders whereby it will be<lb></lb>
very difficult for the Justices and other <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55600_occ920">Civil</rs>
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