July 11th. 1728 .

Yoe most humble Servt.

Clerk of the Peace
of Middlesex .

P Adjorn Jovis Sex to die Jnry 1728.

Order for presenting
the Acting of Drotts
Txerciseing unlawfull
James & Plays at
Tottenham Court in Ye.
Parish of St. Pancras
and elsewhere in
Middlesex ,

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This Court being Informed that Several Common
Players of Interludes have for Several Yeares
used and accustomed to Assemble and meet together
at or near a certain Place called Tatten hoe alias
Tatten hall alias Tatten ham 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 Majesties Subjects have been
encouraged to Assemble and meet together, and
to Committ Riots and other Misdemeanors in
breach of his Majesties Peace and to the on
disturbance of the Neighbourhood of that Place,
And that some of the said Players of Interlude's
and other evil disposed Persons are now Seeking
out and contracting for Ground in or near Tattenhoe
als Tattenhall als Tattenham Court aforesaid aswell
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 Interhides are deemed and
declared Rogues and Vaga bonds, 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 Appprentices and others
as well as to the disturbance of the Publique