Play and Gaming which hath manifestly tended to the
encouragement of Vice and Immorality and to the debauching
and running of Servants Apprentices and others, and also to
the disturbance of the Publick Peace by one occasioning Quarretis
Riots Tumults and other Disorders, which Players of
Interludes are by Law deemed and declared Rogues and
Vagabonds, and the acting of Such Plays, Drolls & other
Shows and the keeping of publick Gaming Tables or Gaming
Houses are contrary to the Laws and Statutes of the Realm
For the preventing of which Mischiefs for the
future It is thought fit and Ordered by this Court that [..]
And It is hereby recommended and referred unto his Majesty< no role >
Justices of the Peace for the said County of Middx residing
within the said respective Divisions in which the said For
above specifyed or any of them are holden or to any two or
now of them by Warrant or Order to be granted under their
hands and Seals as often as they Shall think needful to order
and require the High Constable of that Division in which such
Fairs or any of them are holden and wherein such Justices
reside to Summon and taken to his Assistance from time to
time the Several Petty Constables and Headboroughs within
the said Division (whom this Court doth require to aid and
assist him herein) or so many of them as he shall think
Sufficient for this Purpose, and that he the said High
Constable together with such Petty Constables & Headboroughs
whom he shall so take to this Assistance do apprehend all
and every Players of Interludes Plays or Drolls and other
Persons who shall Act Exhibite or Shew any such Interludes
Plays or Drolls or play at or encourage or procure any
unlawful Game or Games to be played at in any Playhouse
Booth Shed or other place in or near such Fair or Fairs
And that the said High Constable and Petty Constables
and Headboroughs as his Assistants do carry all & every
Person or Persons so offending before one or more of his
Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the Said County to the end