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<p n="274">and other their Fellows Justices of our Said Lord the King<lb></lb>
assigned to keep the Peace in the County aforesaid and also to<lb></lb>
hear and determine divers Felonies Trespasses other Misdeeds<lb></lb>
committed in the said County.</p>
<p n="275"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Order for Suppressing<lb></lb>
Disorders at Mile<lb></lb>
End Fair.}</note>
Whereas the Church wardens Constable Overseers of the<lb></lb>
Poor, Surveyors of the Highways and other Inhabitants of the<lb></lb>
Hamlet of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55602_geo519">Mile End Old Town</rs>
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in the Parish of Saint Dunstan<lb></lb>
Stepney otherwise Stebunheath in the Said County have exhibited<lb></lb>
their humble Petition unto this Court Setting forth That there was<lb></lb>
was a Patent granted to hold a Fair on Michaelmas day only<lb></lb>
in every year which for Several years past hath been held in a<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55602_geo520">Field near the Great Road</rs>
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leading to <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55602_geo521">Bow</rs>
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in the Hamlet of Mile<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55602_geo522">End Old Town</rs>
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aforesaid And under Colour of the said Patent<lb></lb>
great Numbers of loose and disorderly Persons have for many days<lb></lb>
in each year assembled and met together in and near to the Said<lb></lb>
Field and exhibited Drolls and Shews and have been guilty of<lb></lb>
beating wounding and<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
treating of many of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55602_n275-1">his Majesty</rs>
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's<lb></lb>
good and Sober Subjects tending tending greatly to the corrupting<lb></lb>
the Morals of Youth and to the great disquietude and manifest<lb></lb>
danger of People that have Occasion to pass and repass that way<lb></lb>
but more particularly to the Inhabitants of the said Hamlet And<lb></lb>
that to prevent Such Inconveniences for the future the Petitioners<lb></lb>
humblyrequest the Interposition of this Court by recommending<lb></lb>
the Suppressing the Disorders incident to Such unlawfull Methods to<lb></lb>
the Justices inhabiting thereabouts as in Cases of the like Nature this<lb></lb>
Court have been pleased to do Or in any other Method they Shall<lb></lb>
think proper in order effectually to put a Stop to the Same for the<lb></lb>
future, And Whereas all Players of Interludes are deemed and<lb></lb>
declared Rogues and Vagabonds and the acting of Such Plays<lb></lb>
Drolls and other Shews and the Keeping of Publick Gaming Tables<lb></lb>
or Gaming houses are contrary to the Laws and Statutes of this<lb></lb>
Realm and do manifestly and directly tend to the encouragement<lb></lb>
of Vice and Immorality, and to the debauching and raining of<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55602_occ321">Servants</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55602_occ322">Apprentices</rs>
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and others as well as to the distarbance of<lb></lb>
the publick Peace by occasioning Quarrells, Riots Tumults and<lb></lb>
other Disorders, For the preventing of which Mischiefs for the<lb></lb>
future, It is thought fit and Ordered by this Court That it be,<lb></lb>
And It is hereby recommended and referred unto <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55602_n275-2">his Majesty</rs>
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's<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55602_occ323">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the Said County of Middx residing in the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55602_geo523">Tower Division</rs>
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(in which Division the Said Hamlet doth lye)<lb></lb>
or to any two or more of them by Warrant or Order to be granted</p>
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