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<p n="46">By adjournment on <rs type="date" id="LMSMPS50457_date13">Thursday the ninth day of December 1756</rs>
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<p n="47">Information having been given to this Court that divers loose idle and disorder<lb></lb>
Persons being common Players of Interludes have on divers days for some<del>Month</del>
weeks<lb></lb>
past assembled themselves together at Hampstead in this County and on such days<lb></lb>
Persons for Hire gain and Reward did act represent and perform and did<lb></lb>
acted represented and performed divers Interludes Tragedies Comedies Operas<obscured></obscured>
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and other Entertainments of the Stage or some Part or Parts therein not being<lb></lb>
authorized by Law Therefore it is ordered by this Court that <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50457_n47-1">William Watts</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50457_n47-1" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50457_occ15">Gent</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50457_occ16">High<lb></lb>
Constable</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50457_geo50">Holborn</rs>
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Division do go the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50457_geo51">Hampstead</rs>
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aforesd as often as occasion shall be and inquir<obscured></obscured>
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forthwith forbid and use his utmost Endeavour to prevent the like for the future and if after that there<obscured></obscured>
attending in the like man that the<del>find out the Names of such Persons so offending and also the</del>
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of parliament in that respect made be put into execution<lb></lb>
<del>or Names of the Person or Persons in whose Houses or on whose Premisses such acting<lb></lb>
representing and performing of such Interludes Tragedies <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50457_occ17">Coucedies</rs>
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Operas Plays Forces<lb></lb>
other Entertainments of the Stage or some Part or Parts therein not being authorized<obscured></obscured>
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what he shall do in pursuance of his Order to such of his Majesty's Justices of the<obscured></obscured>
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the said County of Middx who shall meet at Hicks hall on the County day of the next G<obscured></obscured>
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Quarter Session of the Peace to be holden for<del>this</del>
the sd. County to the End that such<obscured></obscured>
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order may be made herein as shall be then thought necessary</p>
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