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

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Image 316 of 55921st April 1748


By adjornment on Thursday the 21st. day of April 1748 .

Order for Mr. Higgs Trearer
of Middx to pay £1.5s. to Mr.
John Applebee< no role > for printing
500 Orders of Sessions for
Settling the Rates & Prices
for passing & relieving
Vagabonds.}

It is Ordered by this Court that Mr. John Higgs< no role > Treasurer of
this County do pay unto Mr. John Applebee< no role > Printer the Sum of
twenty five Shillings due to him upon his Bill for printing
five hundred Orders upon a large folio Page of the General
Sessions of the Peace for the County of Middx for Settling the
Rates and Prices for the passing & relieving of Vagabonds
with an Indorsement on the Back of the Order, And that the
Receipt of the Said John Applebee< no role > together with this Order
Shall be a Sufficient Discharge to the Said Treasurer for Such
payment.

By adjornment on Thursday the twenty first day of April
1748 before Thomas Lane< no role > Esqr . Sir John Crosse< no role > Bart .
John Milner< no role > James Clitherow< no role > Luke Robinson< no role > Stephen
Beckingham
< no role > Philip Dyot< no role > Henry Broadhead< no role > George
Errington
< no role > Boulton Mainwaring< no role > Walter Berry< no role > Esqrs.
and others.

Order for Suppressing
Gaming on the Lords Day.}

It being Represented unto this Court by Mr. Saunders Welch< no role >
High Constable of Holborn Division in this County that great
Numbers of loose and disorderly Persons assemble in the Out
Parts of the Town every Lords Day during the Summer Season,
and practice Gaming of various Sorts, whereby Apprentices
and others are drawn into the neglect of the Publick Worship of
Almighty God and into a Train of evil Consequences attendant
thereupon, And the Said High Constable desiring the Assistance
of this Court to Suppress this growing Evil, This Court for the
preventing Such iniquitous Practice for the future Doth Order
that it be and it is hereby recommended and referred unto his
Majesty's Justices of the Peace for this County residing in Holborn
Division, Finsbury Division, and the Tower Division in the Said
County to use their Endeavours to Suppress Such Gaming and
unlawful Assemblys of loose idle & disorderly Persons on the
Lords Day within their respective Districts, And in Order
thereunto that the Justices of the Peace or any two or more of
them in each of the Said Divisions do by Warrant or Precept to




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