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<p n="920"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Middx</note>
At the General Quarter Session of the Peace of our <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55602_n920-1">Sovereign Lord</rs>
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the King begun and holden<lb></lb>
for the County of Middx at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55602_geo1502">Westminster</rs>
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in the County aforesaid on Monday the twenty seventh<lb></lb>
day of April in the twentieth Year of the reign of our <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55602_n920-2">Sovereign Lord</rs>
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George the second King<lb></lb>
of Great Britain Etc and from thence continued by several Adjournments untill this day (to wit)<lb></lb>
Thursday the thirtieth day of the same Month of April in the year aforesaid and on the same<lb></lb>
day holden by adjournment at Hicks Hall in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55602_geo1503">St. John Street</rs>
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in and for the said County before<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55602_n920-3">Thomas Lane</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55602_n920-4">John Milner</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55602_n920-5">Thomas Burdus</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55602_n920-6">Stephen Beckingham</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55602_n920-7">Robert Tothill</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55602_n920-8">Robert Paul</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55602_n920-9">Henry Broadhead</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55602_n920-10">Thomas Moore</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55602_n920-11">Samuel Tatem</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55602_n920-12">William Withers</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55602_n920-13">Thomas Rea</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55602_n920-14">Philip Dyot</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55602_n920-15">Peter Elers</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55602_n920-16">Francis Hole</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55602_n920-17">Boulton Mainwaring</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55602_n920-18">John Lawton</rs>
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Esquires and other<lb></lb>
their Fellows Justices of our said Lord the king assigned to keep the Peace in the County aforesaid<lb></lb>
and also to hear and determine divers Felonies Trespasses and other Misdeeds committed in the same<lb></lb>
County.</p>
<p n="921"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Order for suppressing<lb></lb>
unlawful Fairs.</note>
It being represented unto this Court that several common Players of Interludes Gamsters and other<lb></lb>
loose idle and disorderly Persons have for several years used and accustomed to assemble and meet<lb></lb>
together at several Fairs or pretended Fairs held in this County of Middx not warranted by Law to wit<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55602_geo1504">Tottenham Court</rs>
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Fair <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55602_geo1505">Hampstead</rs>
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Fair and <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55602_geo1506">Paddington</rs>
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Fair in Holborn Division the Shepherd's<lb></lb>
Bush Fair in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55602_geo1507">Kensington</rs>
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Division the Welch Fair in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55602_geo1508">Finsbury Division</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55602_geo1509">Mile End Fair</rs>
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and Bow<lb></lb>
Fair commonly called <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55602_geo1510">Green Goose Fair</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55602_geo1511">the Tower</rs>
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Division and May Fair in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55602_geo1512">Westminster</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Division some of which Fairs continue for a Fortnight and others for three Weeks and where<lb></lb>
great Numbers of People stay till one or two o'Clock in the Morning And such Players of<lb></lb>
Interludes and other evil disposed Persons have frequently taken upon them to contract for Ground and<lb></lb>
thereupon built Booths and Sheds where they have acted such Plays and Drolls and carried on and<lb></lb>
encouraged divers kinds of unlawfull Play and Gaming which hath mainfestly tended to the<lb></lb>
Encouragement of Vice and Immorality and to the debauching and ruining of Servants Apprentices<lb></lb>
and others and also to the Disturbance of the publick Peace by occasioning Quarrells Riots Tumults<lb></lb>
and other Disorders which Players of Interludes are by Law deemed and declared Rogues and<lb></lb>
Vagabonds and the acting of such Plays Drolls and other Shows and the keeping of publick<lb></lb>
Gaming Tables or Gaming houses are contrary to the Laws and Statues of this Realm For the<lb></lb>
preventing of which Mischiefs for the future it is thought fit and ordered by this Court That it be<lb></lb>
and it is hereby recommended and referred unto <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55602_n921-1">his Majesty</rs>
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's <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55602_occ1011">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the said County<lb></lb>
of Middx residing within the said respective Divisions in which the said Fairs above specified or any of<lb></lb>
them are holden or to any two or more them by Warrant or Order to be granted under their<lb></lb>
hands and seals as often as they shall think needfull to order and require the High Constable of<lb></lb>
that Division in which such Fairs or any of them are holden and wherein such Justices reside to<lb></lb>
summon and take to his Assistance from time to time the several Petty Constables and <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55602_occ1012">Headboroughs</rs>
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<lb></lb>
within the said Division (whom this Court doth require to aid and assist him herein) or so many of them as<lb></lb>
he shall think sufficient for this purpose and that he the said High Constable together with such Petty<lb></lb>
Constables and Headboroughs whom he shall so take to his assistance deapprehend all and every<lb></lb>
Players of Interludes Plays or Drolls and other Persons who shall out exhibit or shew any such<lb></lb>
Interludes Plays or Drolls or play at or encourage or procure any unlawfull Game or Games to be<lb></lb>
played at in any Playhouse Booth Shed or other Place in or near such Fair or Fairs And that the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55602_occ1013">High Constable</rs>
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and <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55602_occ1014">Petty Constables</rs>
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and Headboroughs as his Assistants do carry all and every<lb></lb>
Person or Persons so offending before one or more of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55602_n921-2">his Majesty</rs>
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's <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55602_occ1015">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the<lb></lb>
said County to the End they may be punished according to Law and to prevent and suppress as much as</p>
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