Middx.
At the General Session of the Peace of our Sovereign
Lord the King holden for the County of Middx
at Hicks hall
in St. John Street
in the County aforesaid by adjornment on
Thursday the twenty Sixth Day of February in the
twentieth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord
George the Second King of Great Britain Etc before
Thomas Lane< no role >
,
John Milner< no role >
,
Samuel Tatem< no role >
, George
Errington 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 for Suppressing
Disorders in Moorfields
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It being Represented unto this Court that divers loose
ilde and disorderly Persons Such as Shewers of Interludes,
Gamblers, and Gamesters of Several kinds, and other
Vagabonds do in open defiance of the Laws daily infest
a place called Moorfields
in Finsbury Division
in this
County of Middx. to the ruin of Youth, Corruption of good
Manners & detriment of Trade, This Court upon Consideration
of the Premisses, Doth for the preventing Such Mischiefs for
the future, Order that it be, And It is hereby recommended
and referred unto
his Majesty< no role >
's Justices of the Peace
for the
Said County of Middx residing in Finsbury Division aforesaid
or to any two or more of them by Warrant or Order to do granted under
their hands & Seals as often as they Shall think needfull to
Order and require that the High Constable
of the Said Division
do Summon and take to his Assistance 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 and Headboroughs whom he Shall So take to his
Assistance do apprehend all and every Players of Interludes