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By adjournment on
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Thursday the ninth day of December 1756
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Information having been given to this Court that divers loose idle and disorder
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Persons being common Players of Interludes have on divers days for some
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weeks
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past assembled themselves together at Hampstead in this County and on such days
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Persons for Hire gain and Reward did act represent and perform and did
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acted represented and performed divers Interludes Tragedies Comedies Operas
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and other Entertainments of the Stage or some Part or Parts therein not being
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authorized by Law Therefore it is ordered by this Court that
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William Watts
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Holborn
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Division do go the
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Hampstead
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aforesd as often as occasion shall be and inquir
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forthwith forbid and use his utmost Endeavour to prevent the like for the future and if after that there
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attending in the like man that the
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find out the Names of such Persons so offending and also the
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of parliament in that respect made be put into execution
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or Names of the Person or Persons in whose Houses or on whose Premisses such acting
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representing and performing of such Interludes Tragedies
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Operas Plays Forces
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what he shall do in pursuance of his Order to such of his Majesty's Justices of the
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the said County of Middx who shall meet at Hicks hall on the County day of the next G
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Quarter Session of the Peace to be holden for
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the sd. County to the End that such
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order may be made herein as shall be then thought necessary
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