Event Comment: Benefit
Dukes. 5s., 3s., 2s. At the General Session...for Courts of
Middlesex...on Thursday the 10th Day of May, 17
George II....This Court being informed, that several common Players of Interludes have for several Years used
and accusdomed to assemble
and meet together at or near a certain place called
Tattenhoe, alias
Tattenhall, alias
Tottenham Court, in the
Parish of St.@Pancras in this County,
and to erect
Booths,
and act or exhibit Drolls
and other Shews...whereby great Numbers of His Majesty's Subjects have been encouraged to assemble
and to commit Riots
and other Misdemeanors, in breach of His Majesty's Peace,
and to the disturbance of the Neighborhood, of that Place;
and that some of the said Players of Interludes,
and other evil disposed Persons, are now seeking out
and contracting for ground in or near the Place aforesaid, to build
Booths for showing
and acting said Plays
and Drolls...
and whereas all such Players of Interludes are deemed
and declared Rogues
and Vagabonds,
and the Acting of such Plays, Drolls
and Shews, are contrary to the Inns
and Statues of the Realm...require the
High Constable to apprehend all
and every Players of Interludes, Plays,
and Drolls.--
Daily Advertiser, 17 May