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<p n="1943"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Middx</note>
At the General Quarter Session of the Peace of our <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55602_n1943-1">Sovereign Lord</rs>
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the<lb></lb>
King begun & holden for the County of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55602_geo2910">Middx</rs>
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at Hicks Hall in St. John<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55602_geo2911">Street</rs>
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in the County aforesaid on Monday in the Week next after the Feast of the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55602_geo2912">Epiphany</rs>
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(To wit) the Thirteenth Day of January, in the Twenty fifth Year of<lb></lb>
the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the second King of Great Britain Etc.<lb></lb>
and from thence Continued by several Adjournments untill this Day (To wit)<lb></lb>
the Sixteenth Day of the same Month of January in the Year aforesaid<lb></lb>
and on the same Day holden by Adjornment at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55602_geo2913">Hicks Hall</rs>
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aforesaid in<lb></lb>
and for the said County before <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55602_n1943-2">Thomas Lane</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55602_occ2320">Esqr</rs>
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. the Right honble George<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55602_occ2321">Earl of Kinnoull</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55602_n1943-3">John Milner</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55602_n1943-4">Henry Butler</rs>
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Pacey Vigerus Edwards<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55602_n1943-5">Barwell Smith</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55602_n1943-6">Richard Ricards</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55602_n1943-7">John Goodchild</rs>
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Thomas Jerris George<lb></lb>
Errington George Garrett <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55602_n1943-8">William Withers</rs>
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John Dekenoee <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55602_n1943-9">John Lawton</rs>
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<lb></lb>
and <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55602_n1943-10">Walter Berry</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55602_occ2322">Esquires</rs>
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and others their Fellows Justices of our said<lb></lb>
Lord the King assigned to keep the Peace in the County aforesaid and<lb></lb>
also to hear and determine divers Felonies Trespasses and other Misdeeds<lb></lb>
Committed in the same County.</p>
<p n="1944"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Order agt. Divers<lb></lb>
of Wheellarrows<lb></lb>
with Dice, Thrower<lb></lb>
at Cocks Etc and<lb></lb>
Gamsters.}</note>
It being Represented unto this Court on this<lb></lb>
Sixteenth Day of January instant that divers Loose Idle and disorderly<lb></lb>
Persons being Drivers of <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55602_occ2323">Wheellarrows</rs>
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with Dice, go about the<lb></lb>
Streets LanesAlleys and open Places in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55602_geo2914">Westminster</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Division <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55602_geo2915">the Tower</rs>
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Division Holborn Division Finsbury Division &<lb></lb>
other Divisions in this County Inticing and Seduceing Servants<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55602_occ2324">Apprentices</rs>
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and other unmary Persons to throw and Play and Dice<lb></lb>
with such Drivers of Wheellarrows who Cheat and defraud the<lb></lb>
of their Moneys which this Court doth adjudge to be a Publick<lb></lb>
Grievance,And it being further<lb></lb>
Represented that several other Loose Idle and Disorderly Person<lb></lb>
do in a Riotous Manner in open Defiance of the Lanes frequent<lb></lb>
ly meet together and Throw at Cocks and other Fowle with<lb></lb>
Great Sticks in the publick Streets and Places within the Division<lb></lb>
aforesaid, whereby his Majestys Subjects passing and repassing<lb></lb>
upon their Lanefull Occasions, are very much Incommoded and in<lb></lb>
Danger of being Maimed in their Limbs or very much hurt by<lb></lb>
Throwing the aforesaid Sticks and that such Streets and Places<lb></lb>
are also infested with Gamesters of Various Kinds who use and<lb></lb>
Excercise Unlawfull Play and Gaming, This Court upon<lb></lb>
Consideration of the Premisses doth for the Suppressing such Disor<lb></lb>
ders & Mischiefs as aforesaid, Order that the Respective High<lb></lb>
Constables of the said Respective Divisions do summon & Take<lb></lb>
to their Respective Assistances the Respective Petty Constables<lb></lb>
and Headboroughs within their Respective Divisions aforesaid<lb></lb>
whom this Court doth Require to aid and Assist the said Respec<lb></lb>
tive High Constable therein)or so many of them<lb></lb>
as the said High Constables respectively Shall think Sufficient<lb></lb>
for this Purpose And at the said Respective High Constables &<lb></lb>
such Petty Constables and Headboroughs as their Respective &<lb></lb>
Assissants do Apprehend all and everysuch Drivers of Wheellarrows<lb></lb>
with Dice Throwers at Cocks, and other Fowls and such other Pson or<lb></lb>
Psons whom they Shall find offending in any of the & Pmsis above<lb></lb>
mentioned and Carry them and Every of them go Offending</p>
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