And the said Committee to that End are desired to peruse a Paragraph inserted by
Order of the Lord Mayer of London
in the Daily Advertiser of the eighth of
December instant and another on the tenth of the same December and to make use of
such Part or Parts of the said Paragraph as they shall think proper And the said
Committee are desired to report on the County day of the next Sessions what they shall
do in pursuance of this Order.
By adjournment on Thursday the ninth day of December 1756
.
Information having been given to this Court that divers loose idle and disorderly
Persons being common Players of Interludes have on divers days for some Weeks
last past assembled themselves together at divers Parts in this County and on such
days such Persons for Hire Gain and Reward did act represent and perform and did
cause to be acted represented and performed divers Interludes Tragedies Comedies
Operas Plays Farces and other Entertainments of the Stage or some Part or Parts
therein not being authorized by Law Therefore it is Ordered by this Court that Samuel
Tull Gent High Constable
of Edmonton
Division do go round his said Division from
time to time as often as occasion shall be and Inquire the Truth of the premisses above
mentioned and if he finds the Information to be true that he forthwith forbid and use
his utmost Endeavour to prevent the like for the future And if after that there should
be any Person or Persons offending in the like manns - that he should see the Act
of Parliament in that respect made be put into Execution And that the said Mr.
Tull do report what he shall do in pursuance of this Order to such of his Majestys
Justices of the Peace
for the said County of Middx who shall meet at Hicks Hall
on the County day of the next General Quarter Session of the Peace to be holden
for the said County to the End that such further Order may be made therein as
shall be then thought necessary.
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