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<p n="865"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Middx.</note>
At the General Session of the Peace of our Sovereign<lb></lb>
Lord the King holden for the County of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55602_geo1370">Middx</rs>
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at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55602_geo1371">Hicks hall</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55602_geo1372">St. John Street</rs>
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in the County aforesaid by adjornment on<lb></lb>
Thursday the twenty Sixth Day of February in the<lb></lb>
twentieth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord<lb></lb>
George the Second King of Great Britain Etc before<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55602_n865-1">Thomas Lane</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55602_n865-2">John Milner</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55602_n865-3">Samuel Tatem</rs>
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, George<lb></lb>
Errington <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55602_occ973">Esquires</rs>
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and other their Fellows Justices<lb></lb>
of our Said Lord the King assigned to keep the Peace<lb></lb>
in the County aforesaid and also to hear and determine<lb></lb>
divers Felonies Trespasses and other Misdeeds committed<lb></lb>
in the Same County,</p>
<p n="866"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Order for Suppressing<lb></lb>
Disorders in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55602_geo1373">Moorfields</rs>
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It being Represented unto this Court that divers loose<lb></lb>
ilde and disorderly Persons Such as Shewers of Interludes,<lb></lb>
Gamblers, and Gamesters of Several kinds, and other<lb></lb>
Vagabonds do in open defiance of the Laws daily infest<lb></lb>
a place called <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55602_geo1374">Moorfields</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55602_geo1375">Finsbury Division</rs>
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in this<lb></lb>
County of Middx. to the ruin of Youth, Corruption of good<lb></lb>
Manners & detriment of Trade, This Court upon Consideration<lb></lb>
of the Premisses, Doth for the preventing Such Mischiefs for<lb></lb>
the future, Order that it be, And It is hereby recommended<lb></lb>
and referred unto <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55602_n866-1">his Majesty</rs>
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's <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55602_occ974">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the<lb></lb>
Said County of Middx residing in Finsbury Division aforesaid<lb></lb>
or to any two or more of them by Warrant or Order to do granted under<lb></lb>
their hands & Seals as often as they Shall think needfull to<lb></lb>
Order and require that the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55602_occ975">High Constable</rs>
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of the Said Division<lb></lb>
do Summon and take to his Assistance the Several Petty<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55602_occ976">Constables</rs>
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and <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55602_occ977">Headboroughs</rs>
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within the Said Division<lb></lb>
(whom this Court doth require to aid and assist him herein)<lb></lb>
or So many of them as he Shall think Sufficient for this Purpose,<lb></lb>
And that he the Said High Constable together with Such Petty<lb></lb>
Constables and Headboroughs whom he Shall So take to his<lb></lb>
Assistance do apprehend all and every Players of Interludes</p>
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