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A75861 Ad general' quarterial' session' pacis dom' regis & reginæ, tent' pro com.' Midd. apud Hicks-Hall in St. John's-Street, in Com. præd' die Mercurii scilicet decimo tertio die Januarii Anno Regni Dom' Gulielmi & Dom' Mariæ nunc Regis et Reginæ Angliæ &c. ... England and Wales. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Middlesex) 1692 (1692) Wing A467A; ESTC R233678 1,915 1

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Midd ' ss Ad General ' Quarterial ' Session ' Pacis Dom ' Regis Reginae tent ' pro Com. Midd. apud Hicks-Hall in St. John's-street in Com. praed ' die Mercurii scilicet decimo tertio die Januarii Anno Regni Dom ' Gulielmi Dom ' Mariae nunc Regis et Reginae Angliae c. tertio coram Jacobo Mundy Armig ' Carolo Lee Mil. Johanne Elwes Mil. Johanne Bucknal Mil. Lanceloto Johnson Jacobo Cardrow Henrico Hawley Rogero Jennings Roberto Fielding Nicholao Grice Ambrosio Isted Gulielmo James Johanne Wilson Theophilo Eyton Thoma Smith Roberto Fairbeard Georgio Bohun Gulielmo Underhill Gulielmo Allestry Johanne Ward Tho. Rowe Mil. Tho. Johnson Johe Robins Rich. Woodward Tho. Harriot Tho. Franklin Armig ' et aliis sociis suis Justiciar ' Dictorum Dom ' Regis et Reginae ad pacem in Com' praed ' conservand ' nec non ad divers ' Felon Transgres et al' Malefact ' in eodem Com. perpetrat audiend et terminand assign c. WHereas the Queens most Excellent Majesty was graciously pleased out of Her pious and princely Zeal to Suppress the Prophanation of the Lords-Day Drunkenness Swearing and Cursing and all other lewd enormous and disorderly Practices by Her Pious Letter bearing Date the 9th day of July last did re-mind us of our Duty and thereby enjoyn the Observation of the Laws of the Land now in Force against the said Vices Which was received by this Court with the greatest Thankfulness and Satisfaction And in obedience thereunto We did by Our Order bearing Date the Tenth day of the same Month Command all High-Constables Petty-Constables Church-wardens Headboroughs and all other Officers to be diligent in the Execution of the Laws against all such Offenders and cause them to be Convicted and to undergo the Penalties by the said Laws appointed and to give account thereof at the several Petty-Sessions to be thereafter held for this County which We then resolved frequently to hold for that Purpose and hoped from thence that Our Endeavours would have had a good effect But since that by the rash and unadvised actings of several Persons pretending great Zeal many illegal and irregular Warrants of Conviction have been issued out against a multitude of innocent Persons for suffering Tippling in their Houses and Exercising their ordinary Callings on the Lords-day without Summoning or Hearing their Defences whereby it might appear whether they were Works of Charity or Necessity Or duly weighing the Circumstances of the respective Cases and thereby condemning the guiltless with the guilty which hath exceedingly hindred the good Purposes intended by the said Order and deterred several well-disposed People from Informing or Acting therein And forasmuch as this Court hath from time to time received many repeated Complaints from divers Inn-holders Victuallers and others who have greatly suffered by such oppressive Proceedings This Court for remedy of the said Mischief and to the end that so religious an Intention may not miscary doth resolve to encourage all manner of legal Information touching the Suppressing and Punishment of the said Vices pursuant to their former Order But are of Opinion That the Conviction for continuing Tippling or for Exercising their ordinary Callings on the Lords-day ought not to be made on any Person or Persons before a Warrant or Summons from a Justice of Peace of this County be first had and served on the Person accused and Oath made of such Service that the Person so accused may be first heard and the convicting Justice thereby enabled to make a true Judgment of the Circumstances of every such Accusation before he makes his Conviction And for a due Encouragement to all such Informers This Court doth hereby unanimously agree to deliver all such Summons under their Hands and Seals Gratis to any Persons requiring the same And for the better Encouragement of all Church-wardens Constables and other Officers in searching for and observing such Prophaners of the Lords-Day We their Majesties said Justices of the Peace do hereby further resolve that in our several and respective Divisions We will from time to time on request or as We see occasion go along with them in Person in our several Parishes where we reside to search the several Ale-houses and other Places suspected to entertain People to continue Tipling or otherwise prophaning the Lords-Day And this Court doth require all Constables Headboroughs Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor and all other their Majesties Officers to attend the said Service and to apply themselves to the diligent search after such Offenders against the said Laws and all such Informers who gave former Informations before any the Justices of the Peace of this County against any such Persons so offending they proceeding in such a Legal Way as aforesaid shall receive due Encouragement and Protection from Us in our several Divisions within this County And such Victuallers and Ale-house-keepers as shall by the Examinations and legal Methods and Proofs aforesaid be duly convicted for suffering Persons to continue Tippling in their Houses shall not only incur the Penalty of 10 s. but be Suppressed for three Years according to the Direction of the Stat. in that Case made and provided And it is Orderd by this Court That the Clerk of the Peace for this County do forthwith cause this Order to be Printed and affixed upon the great Gates of Hick's Hall the Church-Doors and all other Publick Places of each Parish within this County and to be distributed to the several High-Constables within this County who are Ordered by this Court forthwith to send the same to the several Petty Constables Church-wardens and Headboroughs within their several Divisions to the end that Publick Notice may be taken thereof per Cur ' HARCOURT LONDON Printed by Tho. Braddyll 1691 2.