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aforesaid, as well as in other Parts of this County, to Build Booths,
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for Shewing and Acting such plays and Drolls, and other Shows, and for
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carrying on and Encourageing of divers kinds of Unlawfull Play and
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Gaming: And Whereas all such players of Interludes are deemed
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and declared Rogues and Vagabonds; And the Acting of such plays
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Drolls, and other Shows, and the keeping of publick Gaming Tables,
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or Gaming Houses, are contrary to the Laws and Statutes of this
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Realm, and do Manifestly and directly tend to the Encouragement
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of Vice and Immorality and to the debauching and ruining Servants,
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and others, as well as to the Disturbance of the publick
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peace, by Occasioning Quarrells, Riots, Tumults, and others
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Disorders:
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For the Preventing of which Mischiefs for the future It is
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thought fitt and Ordered by this Court, That the High Constable of
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in this County, do forthwith Issue forth his
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precepts to the
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of
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Tattenhoe, alias Tattenhall
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Tottenham
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. Court and other the Constables and
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Headboroughs
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of the
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, requiring them in case any of
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the said Comon Players of Interludes, or others, shall Act,
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Exhibit, or Shew, any such Plays, Drolls, or other Shows, or
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keep any Gaming Houses, or Gaming Tables, to Apprehend
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and carry all persons so Offending before one or more of his
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Majesty's Justices of the peace for this County dwelling nearest
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to the places where any such Booths or Gaming Houses or Gaming
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Tables shall be Erected or Erecting, to the End they may be Punished,
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According to the Lacos in such case made and provided, And the
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said high and petty Constables, and all other Officers, are
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hereby required to give publick Notice of this Order, by Affixing
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the same on the most notorious places, or by such other Ways on
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and means as they shall think most proper, within their
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respective Divisions for the better Notification thereof
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And it is further Ordered, That all other the High Constables,
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Petty Constables, and other Officers, within this County, where
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any Booths shall be Erecting, or where they shall be credibly
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Informed any such Drolls, plays, or other Shows, or Gaming, are
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Intended to be Acted, Exhibited, Shew'd or carry'd on shall Act in
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the same or like manner, and Observe and Obey the same
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Orders, within their respective Jurisdictions, Divisions, or
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Parishes, as is before ordered concerning the high Constable,
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Petty Constables and other Officers of Holborn Division. And for
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the better preventing or Suppressing of the Disorders aforesaid,
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It is also Recommended to the
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Justices of the peace
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within their
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their several Divisions, to Meet together to take and Use such
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lawful Means as may be most effectual for preventing the
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