Mid ' 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 etc. tertio coram Jacobo Mundy Armig ' Carolo Lee Mil. Johanne Elwes Mil. Johanne Bucknal Mil. Lanceloto Johnson, Jacobo Cardrow, Henrico Hawley, Rogero Jennings, Roberto Fielding, Nicholas 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. Robin's Rich. Woodward, Tho. Harriot, Tho. Franklin, Armig ' et aliis sociis suis Justiciar' Dictorum Dom' Regis et Reginae, ad pacem in come praed' conservand' nec non ad divers ' Felon. Transgress. et al' Malefact' in eodem Com. perpetrat. audiend. et terminand. assign, etc.  
WHereas the Queens most Excellent Majesty was graciously pleased out of Her pious and princely Zeal to Suppress the Profanation of the Lordsday, 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 enjoin 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, Churchwardens, 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 Lordsday, 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 hindered 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 Proceed. This Court for remedy of the said Mischief, and to the end that so religious an Intention may not miscarry, 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 Lordsday, 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 Judgement 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 Churchwardens, Constables, and other Officers in searching for, and observing such Prophaners of the Lordsday, 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 Alehouses, and other Places suspected to entertain People to continue Tippling, or otherwise profaning the Lordsday: And this Court doth require all Constables, Headboroughs, Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor, and all other their Majesty's 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 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 Hick's Hall, the Church-Doors, and all other Public 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, Churchwardens, and Headboroughs, within their several Divisions, to the end, that Public Notice may be taken thereof.  
per Cur' HARCOURT.   

LONDON, Printed by Tho. Braddyll, 1691/2.