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

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Middx.

At the General Quarter Session of the Peace of our Sovereign Lord< no role >
the King holden for the County of Middx at Hicks-Hall in St. John
Street in the County of Middx aforesaid by adjournment on Thursday
the twenty first Day of April in the twenty first year of the Reign of
our Sovereign Lord George the Second King of Great Britain
Etc Before Thomas Lane< no role > Esqr . Sir John Crosse< no role > Bart . John Milner< no role >
James Clitherow< no role > Luke Robinson< no role > Henry Norris< no role > Samuel Tyssen< no role >
Stephen Beckingham< no role > Robert Tothill< no role > Richard Ricards Samuel
Tatem Francis< no role > Hole Philip Dyot< no role > Henry Broadhead< no role > Peter
Elers Ebenezer Mussell< no role > William Withers< no role > George Errington< no role >
Boulton Mainwaring< no role > John Gascoyne< no role > John Poulson< no role > John
Lawton Walter Berry< no role > Esqrs . 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 .}

It being Represented unto this Court That divers loose
idle and disorderly Persons Such as Shewers of Interludes
Players Gamblers< no role > 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
and 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 be granted
under their Hands and Seals as often as they Shall think
needful 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




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