P adjorn Jovis 1o. die July 1725

Order for preventing
the Act of Drolls
and exerciseing
unlawfull Games &
Plays at Tottenham
Court in the Parish
of St. Pancras and
elsewhere in Middx

This Court being Informed that Severall Comon Players of
Interludes have for several Years used and accustomed to
Assemble and meet together at or near a certain Place
called Tattenhoe als Tattenhall als Tottenham Court in
the Parish of St. Pancras in this County and to erect Booths,
and exhibite and act Drolls, and use and exercise
unlawfull Games and Plays, whereby great Numbers of
his Majestyes Subjects have been encouraged to assemble
and meet together, and to comitt Riots and other
misdemeanors in breach of his Majestyes Peace and
to the disturbance of the Neighbourhood of that place,
And that some of the said Players of Interludes and
other evil disposed Persons are now Seeking out and
Contracting for Ground in or near Tattenhoe als Tattenhall
als Tottenham Court aforesaid as well as in other
parts of this County to Build Booths for Shewing and
Acting such Plays and Drolls and for carrying on and
encourageing of divers kinds of unlawfull Play
and Gameing, And Whereas all such Players of
Interludes are deemed and declared Rogues and
Vagabonds, and the acting of such Plays and Drolls
and the keeping of Publique Gameing Tables or
Gameing Houses are contrary to the Laws and
Statutes of this Realm and Doe manifestly and
directly tend to the encouragement of Vice and
immorality and to the debauching and ruining
of Servants Apprentices and others as well as to
the disturbance of the Publique Peace by occasioning
Quarrells Riots and Tumults and other disorders,
whereby it will be very difficult for the Justices
and other civil Magistrates and Officers of this
County (if such practices are permitted) to preserve
the Publique Peace or to prevent or punish such
Misdemeanors as may be committed by such