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and other their Fellows Justices of our Said Lord the King
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assigned to keep the Peace in the County aforesaid and also to
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hear and determine divers Felonies Trespasses other Misdeeds
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committed in the said County.
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Order for Suppressing
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Disorders at Mile
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End Fair.}
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Whereas the Church wardens Constable Overseers of the
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Poor, Surveyors of the Highways and other Inhabitants of the
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Hamlet of
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Mile End Old Town
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in the Parish of Saint Dunstan
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Stepney otherwise Stebunheath in the Said County have exhibited
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their humble Petition unto this Court Setting forth That there was
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was a Patent granted to hold a Fair on Michaelmas day only
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in every year which for Several years past hath been held in a
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Field near the Great Road
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leading to
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Bow
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in the Hamlet of Mile
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End Old Town
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aforesaid And under Colour of the said Patent
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great Numbers of loose and disorderly Persons have for many days
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in each year assembled and met together in and near to the Said
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Field and exhibited Drolls and Shews and have been guilty of
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beating wounding and
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treating of many of
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his Majesty
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good and Sober Subjects tending tending greatly to the corrupting
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the Morals of Youth and to the great disquietude and manifest
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danger of People that have Occasion to pass and repass that way
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but more particularly to the Inhabitants of the said Hamlet And
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that to prevent Such Inconveniences for the future the Petitioners
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humblyrequest the Interposition of this Court by recommending
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the Suppressing the Disorders incident to Such unlawfull Methods to
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the Justices inhabiting thereabouts as in Cases of the like Nature this
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Court have been pleased to do Or in any other Method they Shall
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think proper in order effectually to put a Stop to the Same for the
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future, And Whereas all Players of Interludes are deemed and
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declared Rogues and Vagabonds and the acting of Such Plays
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Drolls and other Shews 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 raining of
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Servants
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Apprentices
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and others as well as to the distarbance of
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the publick Peace by occasioning Quarrells, Riots Tumults and
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other Disorders, For the preventing of which Mischiefs for the
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future, It is thought fit and Ordered by this Court That it be,
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And It is hereby recommended and referred unto
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his Majesty
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Justices of the Peace
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for the Said County of Middx residing in the
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Tower Division
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(in which Division the Said Hamlet doth lye)
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or to any two or more of them by Warrant or Order to be granted
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