Middlesex Sessions:
General Orders of the Court
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19th May 1743 - 22nd February 1753

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Plays, or Drolls, and other Persons who Shall act exhibit or
Shew any Such Interludes Plays or Drolls, or play at or
encourage or procure any unlawfull Game or Games to be played
at in any Playhouse Booth Shed or other Place in Such part of
Moorfields as is in Finsbury Division aforesaid, And that the
Said Petty constables and Headboroughs as Assistants to the Said
High Constables do carry all and every Person or Persons So
offending before one or more of his Majesty< no role > 's Justices of the Peace
for the Said County to the end they may be punished according to
Law, And for the more effectual Suppressing the Grievances
aforesaid, It is hereby recommended unto his Majestys Justices
of the Peace for this County residing in Finsbury Division
aforesaid or any two or more of them to meet together at Such
place or places in or near to Moorfields aforesaid And at Such
time or times as they Shall in this behalf appoint in order to
proceed against Such Offenders as Shall be brought before them
by the Said High Constable or other Peace Officers according to
Law, And the Said High Constable and other Peace Officers
are required to be aiding and assisting to the Said Justices of the
Peace and to observe their Orders and Directions for the more
effectual Suppressing and preventing the Abuses aforesaid,

And in case any part of Moorfields doth extend and lye in
Any other Division and that any Such Disorders or abuses as
aforesaid Shall be there committee, It is in Such Case recommended
to the Justices of the Peace residing in Finsbury Division or any
two or more of them to desire the Justices of the Peace in Such
other Division to call to their Assistance the High Constable and
other Peace Officers in that Division and proceed to Suppress
the Said Disorders and Abuses in the like Manner as the Justices of
the Peace in Finsbury Division are as above desired to do.




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