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<p n="936"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Middx.</note>
At the General Session of the Peace of our <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55602_n936-1">Sovereign Lord</rs>
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the<lb></lb>
King begun and holden for the County of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55602_geo1538">Middx</rs>
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at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55602_geo1539">Hicks hall</rs>
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in<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55602_geo1540">St. John Street</rs>
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in the County aforesaid on Tuesday the Second day<lb></lb>
of June in the twentieth Year of the Reign of our Severeign<lb></lb>
Lord George the Second King of Great Britain &, and from<lb></lb>
thence continued by Several Adjournments until this Day (to wit)<lb></lb>
Thursday the fourth Day of the Same Month of June in the Year<lb></lb>
aforesaid, and on the Same Day holden by adjournment at Hickshall<lb></lb>
in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55602_geo1541">St. John Street</rs>
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aforesaid in and for the Said County before Thomas<lb></lb>
Lane Esqr. The Right Honble <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55602_n936-2">George Lord Carpenter</rs>
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of the<lb></lb>
Kingdom of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55602_geo1542">Ireland</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55602_n936-3">John Milner</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55602_n936-4">James Clitherow</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55602_n936-5">George Cooke</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55602_n936-6">Thomas Burdus</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55602_n936-7">Henry Morris</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55602_n936-8">Francis Burton</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55602_n936-9">Samuel Tatem</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55602_n936-10">Philip Dyot</rs>
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, Merry Teshmaker, <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55602_n936-11">Richard Ricards</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55602_n936-12">Francis Hole</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55602_n936-13">Peter Elers</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55602_n936-14">William Withers</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55602_n936-15">John Tall</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55602_n936-16">Boulton<lb></lb>
Mainwaring,</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55602_n936-17">John Lawton</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55602_occ1036">Esqrs</rs>
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and other their Fellows Insiess<lb></lb>
of our Said Lord the King assigned to keep the Peace in the County<lb></lb>
aforesaid and also to hear & determine divers Felonies<lb></lb>
Trespasses and other Misdeeds committed in the Same County,</p>
<p n="937"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Order for Suppressing<lb></lb>
Unlawfull Fairs.}</note>
It being Represented unto this County that Several common<lb></lb>
Players of Interludes Gamesters and other loose idle and<lb></lb>
disorderly Persons have for Several Years used and accustomed to<lb></lb>
Assemble and meet together at Several Fairs or pretended Fairs<lb></lb>
held in this County of Middx not warranted by Law, (to wit),<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55602_geo1543">Tottenham Court</rs>
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Fair, <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55602_geo1544">Hampstead</rs>
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Fair, and <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55602_geo1545">Paddington</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Fair in Holborn Division, the Stepherd's Bush Fair in<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55602_geo1546">Kensington</rs>
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Division, the Welch Fair in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55602_geo1547">Finsbury Division</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55602_geo1548">Mile End Fair</rs>
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and Bow Fair commonly called Green Goose<lb></lb>
Fair in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55602_geo1549">the Tower</rs>
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Division, and May Fair in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55602_geo1550">Westminster</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Division, Some of which Fairs continue for a fortnight<lb></lb>
and others for three Weeks, and where great Numbers of<lb></lb>
People Stay 'till One or two o'Clock in the Morning, And<lb></lb>
Such Players of Interludes and other evil disposed Persons<lb></lb>
have frequently taken upon to contact for Ground, and<lb></lb>
thereupon built Booths and Sheds, where they have acted<lb></lb>
Such Plays and Drolls, and carried on and encouraged<lb></lb>
divers Kinds of unlawful Play and Gaming, which hath<lb></lb>
manifestly tended to the Encouragement of Vice and</p>
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