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peace_n	county_n	justice_n	respective_a	2,097	5	10.8659	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A75862	Ad general' quarterial' session' pacis dom' regis & dom' reginæ, tent' pro com.' Midd.' apud Hicks's-Hall in St. John's-Street, in Com.' præd' die Lunæ scilicet vicessimo septimo die Junii, Anno Regni Dom' & Dom' nostr' Gulielmi & Mariæ, Dei gratia, Ang. Scot. Fran. & Hib. Regis et Reginæ ...	England and Wales. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Middlesex)	1692 (1692)	Wing A467B; ESTC R233679	2,108	1

Midd ' ss Ad General ' Quartenal ' Session ' Pacis Dom ' Regis Dom ' Reginae tent ' pro Com' Midd ' apud Hicks's-Hall in St. John's-Street in Com' praed ' Die Lunae scilicet Vicessimo Septimo Die Junii Anno Regni Dom ' Dom ' nostr ' Gulielmi Mariae Dei Gratia Ang. Scot. Fran. Hib. Regis Reginae Fidei Defensor ' c. Quarto coram Joh. Dom ' Ossulston Jacobo Mundy Arm. Ric. Bulkely Bar ' Car. Lee Mil ' Guil. Pritchard Mil ' Jac. Smith Mil ' Johanne Elwes Mil ' Thoma Rowe Mil ' Carolo Umfrevile Mil ' Thoma Lane Mil ' Thoma Owen Samuele Buck Thoma Johnson Jacobo Cardrow Lancelot Johnson Craven Peyton Andrea Lawrence Johanne Pery Maynard Colchester Josepho Offley Johanne Herbert Theophilo Eyton Thoma Hariot Thoma Smith Thoma Hall Radolpho Bucknal Rogero Jennings Nic. Grice Henrico Hawley Richardo Woodward Richardo Shoreditch Joh. Wilson Waltero Brydall Richardo Milner Gulilelmo Allestree Gulielmo Withers Gulielmo Underhill Georgio Bohun Leonardo Hancock Edwardo Chamblaine LL. D. Thoma Alston Johanne Duvall Gideon Harvey in Medicinis Doctore Arm. Justic ' Dictorum Dom ' Regis Dom ' Reginae ad pacem in Com' praed conservand ' nec non ad divers ' Felon ' Trangrs ' al' Malefact ' in eodem Com' perpetrat ' audiend ' terminand ' assign c. WHEREAS their Majesties both by their several Letters and Proclamations have from time to time been graciously pleased to declare their earnest desire That all the Laws against Vice and Prophaness be duly Executed and have expresly Commanded us Their Majesties Justices of the Peace of this County to take the most effectual Care for the due Execution thereof And whereas this Court in pursuance of Their Majesties Commands have by their Order bearing date the Tenth Day of July last Commanded all High Constables Petty Constables Headburoughs Church-Wardens and other Officers within this County to Use their utmost Diligence for bringing to condign Punishment all the Offenders against the said Laws which upon the Oaths of divers credible Witnesses as we are informed hath through the diligence of the Officers in divers parts of this County had this good effect that many Houses of disorderly Tipling Debauchery and Gaming have been suppressed and very great Numbers of Bawds Whores and other Lewd Persons prophane Swearers Cursers Drunkards and Prophaners of the Lords day have been Convicted and Punished according to Law Yet notwithstanding in some other parts of this County through the Negligence Connivance and Evil Practices of the Constables Headburoughs Church-Wardens and other inferiour Officers of such Places the Offences aforesaid have received great incouragement and such Lewd Offenders as had been so suppressed have been yet received and permitted there to continue such their Lewd Practices This COURT therefore taking the same into their serious consideration and being stedfast in their Resolutions effectually to carry on a Reformation of manners by the due punishment of the several Offences aforesaid in all parts of this County the same being a Work acceptable to Almighty God and so earnestly and piously recommended by Their Majesties Doth Order and strictly Require all High Constables Petty Constables Headburoughs Church-Wardens and all other Officers to be diligent in making more frequent searches after such as keep Houses of disorderly Tipling Debauchery and Gaming and such as haunt the same and of the said Offenders and of all prophane Swearers Gursers Drunkards and Prophaners of the Lords Day and to give due Information thereof from time to time to some One of Their Majesties Justices of the Peace of this County That no Partiality Connivance or underhand Practices by private Notice to Offenders or any other ways by such Officers may prevent the. Conviction or Detection of them but that the several Offenders may be punished according to Law And whereas the publick Sports and playing of Boys and others on the Lords Day in Church-yards and elsewhere is a great Contempt to the Worship of God and tends to the Corruption of Youth The said Officers are therefore hereby Ordered and Required to take notice on the said days of such disorders and to disperse such Prophaners of the Lords day or to apprehend them and to bring them before One of Their Majesties Justices of the Peace for this County that they may be proceeded against according to Law And we being resolved to proceed with all due strictness against all such Officers is shall be found faulty in the due observance of this our Order do recommend it to all persons who shall at any time hereafter have Knowledge of any of the Offences aforesaid or of any neglect or undue Practice of any Officers aforesaid whereby the Conviction or Punishment of any of the said Offences shall be hindered or avoided that they will give timely Information thereof to some One of Their Majesties Justices of the Peace of the said County from whom they shall receive all due Incouragement And whereas the keeping of Musick Houses of late practised in several publick Taverns and Ale-Houses within this County to which there is a great Resort of Idle and D●ssolute Persons is of very ill Consquence and tends to the Debauching and Ruin especially of the younger sort of people of both Sexes and doth also occasion many Quarrels and Riots to the great disturbance of the publick Peace It is hereby further Ordered that the several Officers aforesaid do make a due Return to some Justice of the Peace in their respective Division of the Christian Name Sirname and Place of abode of all Persons keeping the said Musick Houses and of such as frequent the same to the end they may be prosecuted according to Law And it is further Ordered 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 Hicks's-Hall the Church Doors and all other Publick Places of each Parish within this County and distributed to the several High-Constables within this County who are Ordered by this Courr forthwith to send the same to the several Petty Constables Church-Wardens and Headburoughs within their several Divisions to the end Publick Notice may be taken thereof per Cur ' FOX LONDON Printed by Tho. Braddyll 1692.