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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<OPENER><DATELINE><HI>Midd'</HI> &s;&s;.</DATELINE>
<DATELINE>Ad General' Quartenal' Se&s;&s;ion' Pacis Dom' Regis &amp; Dom' Reginae, tent' pro Com' <HI>Midd'</HI> apud <HI>Hicks's-Hall</HI> in St. <HI>John's-Street,</HI> in Com' praed' Die <HI>Lunae,</HI> &s;cilicet Vice&s;&s;imo Septimo Die <HI>Junii,</HI> Anno Regni Dom' &amp; Dom' no&s;tr'. <HI>Gulielmi</HI> &amp; <HI>Mariae,</HI> Dei Gratia, <HI>Ang. Scot. Fran.</HI> &amp; <HI>Hib.</HI> Regis &amp; Reginae, Fidei Defen&s;or' <HI>&amp;c.</HI> Quarto; coram <HI>Joh.</HI> Dom' <HI>O&s;&s;ul&s;ton, Jacobo Mundy</HI> Arm. <HI>Ric. Bulkely</HI> Bar' <HI>Car. Lee</HI> Mil' <HI>Guil. Pritchard</HI> Mil' <HI>Jac. Smith</HI> Mil' <HI>Johanne Elwes</HI> Mil' <HI>Thoma Rowe</HI> Mil' <HI>Carolo Umfrevile</HI> Mil' <HI>Thoma Lane</HI> Mil' <HI>Thoma Owen, Samuele Buck, Thoma John&s;on, Jacobo Cardrow, Lancelot John&s;on, Craven Peyton, Andrea Lawrence, Johanne Pery, Maynard Colche&s;ter, Jo&s;epho Offley, Johanne Herbert, Theophilo Eyton, Thoma Hariot, Thoma Smith, Thoma Hall, Radolpho Bucknal, Rogero Jennings, Nic. Grice, Henrico Hawley, Richardo Woodward, Richardo Shoreditch, Joh. Wil&s;on, Waltero Brydall, Richardo Milner, Gulilelmo Alle&s;tree, Gulielmo Withers, Gulielmo Underhill, Georgio Bohun, Leonardo Hancock, Edwardo Chamblaine</HI> LL. D. <HI>Thoma Al&s;ton, Johanne Duvall &amp; Gideon Harvey</HI> in Medicinis Doctore Arm. Ju&s;tic' Dictorum Dom' Regis &amp; Dom' Reginae ad pacem in Com' praed. con&s;ervand' nec non ad diver&s;' Felon' Trangr&s;' &amp; al' Malefact', in eodem Com' perpetrat' audiend' &amp; terminand' a&s;&s;ign. <HI>&amp;c.</HI></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>WHEREAS their Maje&s;ties, both by their &s;everal Letters and Proclamations, have from time to time been graciou&s;ly plea&s;ed to declare their earne&s;t de&s;ire, That all the Laws again&s;t Vice and Prophane&s;s be duly Executed, and have expre&s;ly Commanded us Their Maje&s;ties Ju&s;tices of the Peace of this County, to take the mo&s;t effectual Care for the due Execu|tion thereof: And whereas this Court in pur&s;uance of Their Maje&s;ties Commands, have by their Order, bearing date the Tenth Day of <HI>July</HI> la&s;t, Commanded all High Con&s;tables, Petty Con&s;tables, Headburoughs, Church-Wardens and other Officers with|in this County, to U&s;e their utmo&s;t Diligence, for bringing to condign Puni&s;hment all the Offenders again&s;t the &s;aid Laws, which upon the Oaths of divers credible Witne&s;&s;es (as we are informed) hath through the diligence of the Officers, in divers parts of this County had this good effect, that many Hou&s;es of di&s;orderly Tipling, Debauchery and Gaming have been &s;uppre&s;&s;ed, and very great Numbers of Bawds, Whores, and other Lewd Per&s;ons, prophane Swearers, Cur&s;ers, Drunkards, and Prophaners of the Lords day, have been Con|victed and Puni&s;hed according to Law; Yet notwith&s;tanding in &s;ome other parts of this County, through the Negligence, Connivance and Evil Practices of the Con&s;tables, Headburoughs, Church-Wardens and other inferiour Officers of &s;uch Places; the Offences afore&s;aid have received great incouragement, and &s;uch Lewd Offenders as had been &s;o &s;uppre&s;&s;ed, have been yet received and permitted there to continue &s;uch their Lewd Practices. This COURT therefore taking the &s;ame into their &s;erious con&s;ideration, and being &s;tedfa&s;t in their Re&s;olutions, effectually to carry on a Reformation of manners by the due puni&s;hment of the &s;everal Offences afore&s;aid, in all parts of this County, the &s;ame being a Work acceptable to Almighty God; and &s;o earne&s;tly and piou&s;ly recommended by Their Maje&s;ties, Doth Or|der and &s;trictly Require, all High Con&s;tables, Petty Con&s;tables, Headburoughs, Church-Wardens, and all other Officers, to be diligent in making more frequent &s;earches after &s;uch as keep Hou&s;es of di&s;orderly Tipling, Debauchery and Gaming, and &s;uch as haunt the &s;ame, and of the &s;aid Offenders, and of all prophane Swearers, Gur&s;ers, Drunkards, and Prophaners of the Lords Day, and to give due Infor|mation thereof, from time to time, to &s;ome One of Their Maje&s;ties Ju&s;tices of the Peace of this County, That no Partiality, Connivance, or underhand Practices, by private Notice to Offenders, or any other ways, by &s;uch Officers may prevent the. Conviction, or Detection of them, but that the &s;everal Offenders may be puni&s;hed, according to Law; And whereas the publick Sports, and playing of Boys, and others, on the Lords Day, in Church-yards and el&s;ewhere, is a great Contempt to the Wor&s;hip of God, and tends to the Corruption of Youth; The &s;aid Officers are therefore hereby Ordered, and Required to take notice on the &s;aid days, of &s;uch di&s;orders, and to di&s;per&s;e &s;uch Pro|phaners of the Lords day, or to apprehend them, and to bring them before One of Their Maje&s;ties Ju&s;tices of the Peace for this County; that they may be proceeded again&s;t according to Law; And we being re&s;olved to proceed with all due &s;trictne&s;s again&s;t all &s;uch Officers is &s;hall be found faulty in the due ob&s;ervance of this our Order, do recommend it to all per&s;ons who &s;hall at any time hereafter have Knowledge of any of the Offences afore&s;aid, or of any neglect or undue Practice of any Officers afore&s;aid, whereby the Conviction or Puni&s;hment of any of the &s;aid Offences &s;hall be hindered, or avoided, that they will give timely Information thereof, to &s;ome One of Their Maje&s;ties Ju&s;tices of the Peace of the &s;aid County, from whom they &s;hall receive all due Incouragement; And whereas the keeping of Mu&s;ick Hou&s;es of late practi&s;ed in &s;everal publick Taverns and Ale-Hou&s;es within this County, to which there is a great Re&s;ort of Idle and D<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;&s;olute Per&s;ons, is of very ill Con&s;quence, and tends to the Debauching and Ruin, e&s;pecially of the younger &s;ort of people, of both Sexes, and doth al&s;o occa&s;ion many Quarrels and Riots, to the great di&s;turbance of the publick Peace. It is hereby further Ordered, that the &s;everal Officers afore&s;aid, do make a due Return to &s;ome Ju&s;tice of the Peace in their re&s;pective Divi&s;ion of the Chri&s;tian Name, Sir|name, and Place of abode, of all Per&s;ons keeping the &s;aid Mu&s;ick Hou&s;es, and of &s;uch as frequent the &s;ame, to the end they may be pro|&s;ecuted according to Law; And it is further Ordered by this Court, that the Clerk of the Peace for this County, do forthwith cau&s;e this Order to be Printed and Affixed upon the great Gates of <HI>Hicks's-Hall,</HI> the Church Doors, and all other Publick Places of each Pari&s;h within this County, and di&s;tributed to the &s;everal High-Con&s;tables within this County, who are Ordered by this Courr forthwith to &s;end the &s;ame to the &s;everal Petty Con&s;tables, Church-Wardens and Headburoughs within their &s;everal Divi&s;ions, to the end Publick Notice may be taken thereof.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>per Cur' <HI>FOX.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed by <HI>Tho. Braddyll.</HI> 1692.</P>
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