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their Fellows Justices of our said Lord the king assigned to keep the Peace in the County aforesaid
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and also to hear and determine divers Felonies Trespasses and other Misdeeds committed in the same
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County.
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unlawful Fairs.
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It being represented unto this Court that several common Players of Interludes Gamsters and other
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loose idle and disorderly Persons have for several years used and accustomed to assemble and meet
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together at several Fairs or pretended Fairs held in this County of Middx not warranted by Law to wit
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Bush Fair in
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Fair commonly called
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Division some of which Fairs continue for a Fortnight and others for three Weeks and where
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great Numbers of People stay till one or two o'Clock in the Morning And such Players of
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Interludes and other evil disposed Persons have frequently taken upon them to contract for Ground and
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thereupon built Booths and Sheds where they have acted such Plays and Drolls and carried on and
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encouraged divers kinds of unlawfull Play and Gaming which hath mainfestly tended to the
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Encouragement of Vice and Immorality and to the debauching and ruining of Servants Apprentices
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and others and also to the Disturbance of the publick Peace by occasioning Quarrells Riots Tumults
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and other Disorders which Players of Interludes are by Law deemed and declared Rogues and
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Vagabonds and the acting of such Plays Drolls and other Shows and the keeping of publick
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Gaming Tables or Gaming houses are contrary to the Laws and Statues of this Realm For the
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preventing of which Mischiefs for the future it is thought fit and ordered by this Court That it be
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and it is hereby recommended and referred unto
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Justices of the Peace
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for the said County
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of Middx residing within the said respective Divisions in which the said Fairs above specified or any of
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them are holden or to any two or more them by Warrant or Order to be granted under their
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hands and seals as often as they shall think needfull to order and require the High Constable of
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that Division in which such Fairs or any of them are holden and wherein such Justices reside to
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summon and take to his Assistance from time to time the several Petty Constables and
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Headboroughs
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within the said Division (whom this Court doth require to aid and assist him herein) or so many of them as
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he shall think sufficient for this purpose and that he the said High Constable together with such Petty
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Constables and Headboroughs whom he shall so take to his assistance deapprehend all and every
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Players of Interludes Plays or Drolls and other Persons who shall out exhibit or shew any such
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Interludes Plays or Drolls or play at or encourage or procure any unlawfull Game or Games to be
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played at in any Playhouse Booth Shed or other Place in or near such Fair or Fairs And that the
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said
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High Constable
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and
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Petty Constables
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and Headboroughs as his Assistants do carry all and every
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Person or Persons so offending before one or more of
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his Majesty
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's
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Justices of the Peace
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for the
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said County to the End they may be punished according to Law and to prevent and suppress as much as
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