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<p n="66"> <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55603_occ97">Butcher</rs>
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hath<del>been</del>
for several days past advertised that there are two<lb></lb>
Green Bulls to be baited near the pound in the said Street (meaning<lb></lb>
that they are to be baited in the yard adjoining to the house of the<lb></lb>
said Nichols) And the said Nichols gives out that after the said<lb></lb>
Bulls have been baited they are to be tilled and the Flesh of them<lb></lb>
given to the poor of the said parish, and that the admittance money<lb></lb>
is to be laid out in Bread to be given with the Meat, And moreover<lb></lb>
that the said Bulls are the Gift of some Gentleman in the parish<lb></lb>
But that the Petitioners are well assured that they are only artfull<lb></lb>
Insinnatious of the said Nichols, and that the said Bulls are to be<lb></lb>
baited for the whole and sole Benefit of the Said Nichols And<lb></lb>
being done under a pretence of Charity, which he imagines<lb></lb>
prevents the Nusance<del>for an</del>
being taken Notice of But Whatsoever<lb></lb>
his pretence may be the Petitioners complain that this Bull<lb></lb>
baiting occasions the Assembling of a great Number of Loose and<lb></lb>
disorderly Persons to meet together, who are not only a Nusance<lb></lb>
and Annoyance to the Neighbours but when the Sport is over<lb></lb>
(as they call it) these idle and rascally Fellows go about the Town<lb></lb>
in Gangs, and commit all Manner of disorderly Riots to the great<lb></lb>
Damage and Disturbance of many of his Majestys Liege Subjects<lb></lb>
And the Petitioners humbly prayed that this Court will take the<lb></lb>
Premisses into Consideration, and give such Orders thereupon as<lb></lb>
Shall effectually prevent the Nusance complained of under which<lb></lb>
Petition it is mentioned That the Petitioners durst not set their Names<lb></lb>
to their Petition, because should the said Nichols and his Bull baiters<lb></lb>
<del>have</del>
be any wife informed of the persons who made this Complaint<lb></lb>
they would go indanger of Looseing their Lives by these desperate<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55603_geo123">Fellows</rs>
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This Court upon Consideration of the Premisses is of Opinion<lb></lb>
that the Riotous Assemblies of Loose idle and disorderly Persons<lb></lb>
occasioned by the Bullbaiting so advertised is a great grievance and<lb></lb>
dangerous to his Majestys Liege Subjects and may occasion great<lb></lb>
Mischiefs to be done to the publick And doth therefore for the preventing<lb></lb>
such Mischiefs for the Future Order that it be and it is hereby recomended<lb></lb>
and referred unto his Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55603_occ98">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the said<lb></lb>
County of Middx residing or acting<del>in or near</del>
in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55603_geo124">Finsbury Division</rs>
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in the said<lb></lb>
County (within which Division the aforesaid Yard of the said Nichols doth lye)</p>
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