Middx.

At the General Session of the Peace of our Sovereign Lord< no role >
the King began and holden for the County of Middx at Hickshall
in St. John Street in the County aforesaid on Tuesday the
thirteenth Day of May in the nineteenth year of the Reign of
our Sovereign Lord George the Second King of Great Britain
&c. and from thence continued by Several adjournments until this
Day, to wit, Thursday the fifteenth day of Same month of
May in the year aforesaid and on the Same day holden by
adjournment at Hicks Hall aforesaid in & for the Said County
before Thomas Lane< no role > Esqr . Sir Edward Lawrence< no role > Knt. John Milner< no role >
Roger Coningsby< no role > James Clitherow< no role > Thomas Burdus< no role > Henry Morris< no role >
Samuel Tyssen< no role > Samuel Tatem< no role > Robert Tothill< no role > John Elliott< no role > This name instance is in set 3963.
Richard Ricards Henry Breadhead Merry Teshmaker Thomas
Moore Francis< no role > Hole George Errington< no role > William Withers< no role > ,
Boulton Mainwaring< no role > John Poulson< no role > John Lawton< no role > Esquires
and other their Fellows Justices of our said Lord the King
assigned to keep the Peace in the County aforesaid and also to hear
and determine divers Felonies Trespasses and other Misdeeds
committed in the Same County.

Order agt. Tottenham
Court Fair Hampstead
Fair & Paddington Fair< no role >
in Holborn Division, The
Welsh Fair in Finsbury
Division, Mile End Fair
& Bow Fair commonly
called Green Goose Fair
in the Tower Division and
May Fair in Westmister
Division.}

It being Represented unto this Court that Several comon
Players of Interlades, Gamesters, and other loose idle and
disorderly Person have for Several years used & accustomed to
assemble and meet together at Several Fairs or pretended Fairs
held in this County of Middx not warranted by Law, to wit,
Tottenham Court Fair Hampstead Fair and Paddington
Fair in Holborn Division, The Welsh Fair in Finsbury
Division, Mile End Fair and Bow Fair commonly called
Green Goose Fair in the Tower Division and May Fair in
Westminster Division. Some of which Fairs continue for
a fortnight and others for three Weeks and where great Numbers
of People Stay till one or two a Clock in the morning And
Such Players of Interludes and other evil disposed persons have
Frequently taken upon them to contract for Ground are thereupon
built Booths and Sheds where they have acted such Plays and
Drolls and carried on and encouraged divers kinds of unlawful