Middlesex Sessions:
General Orders of the Court
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22nd February 1725 - 19th January 1734

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Peace by occasioning Quarrells Riots and Tumults
and other disorders, whereby it will be very difficul
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 parish such misdemeanors as may
be Committed by such Numbers of evil disposed
Persons as doe usually meet at such Places and
on Such occasions, for the Preventing of Which
Mischiefs and disorders for the future It is
thought fit and Ordered by this Court that the
High Constable of Holborne Division in this
County doe forth with Issue forth his precepts to
the Petty Constables of Totten hoe als Pattenhall
als Totten Ram Court and other the Constables
and Head boroughs of the Parish of St. Pancras
requireing them to give Publique Notice of this
Order by affixing this Order on the most Notorions
Places or by such other wayes and meanes as
they shall think most proper within their
respective Divisions for the better notification
hereof, And to the End that noe Persons may
pretend Ignorance, And in case any of the said
Common Players of Interludes or others shall
notwithstanding shew or act any such Plays or
Drolls or Keep any Gameing Houses or Gameing
Tables the said high and Petty Constables and
all other Officers are hereby required to apprehend
and Carry them before one or more of his Majesties
Justices of the Peace for this County Dwelling
nearest to the Places where any such Booths or
Gameing Houses or Gameing Tables Shall be
Erected or Erecting To the End they May be




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