Attempts to Suppress the Shows at Bartholomew Fair--A remarkable Dutch Boy--Theatrical Booths at the London Fairs--Penkethman, the Comedian--May Fair--Barnes and Finley--Lady Mary--Doggett, the Comedian--Simpson, the Vaulter--Clench, the Whistler--A Show at Charing Cross--Another Performing Horse--Powell and Crawley, the Puppet-Showmen--Miles's Music-Booth--Settle and Mrs. Mynn--Southwark Fair--Mrs. Horton, the Actress--Bullock and Leigh--Penkethman and Pack--Boheme, the Actor--Suppression of May Fair--Woodward, the Comedian--A Female Hercules--Tiddy-dol, the Gingerbread Vendor. So early as the close of the seventeenth century, one hundred and fifty years before the fair was abolished, we find endeavours being made, in emulation of the Puritans, to banish every kind of amusement from Bartholomew Fair, and limit it to the purposes of an annual market. In 1700, the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen resolved that no booths should be permitted to be erected in Smithfield that year; but on the 6th of August it was announced that "the lessees of West Smithfield having on Friday last represented to a Court of Aldermen at Guildhall, that it would be highly injurious to them to have the erection of all booths there totally prohibited, the right honourable Lord Mayor and the Court of Aldermen have, on consideration of the premises, granted licence to erect some booths during the time of Bartholomew Fair now approaching; but none are permitted for music-booths, or any that may be means to promote debauchery." And, on the 23rd, when the Lord Mayor went on horseback to proclaim the fair, he ordered two music-booths to be taken down immediately. On the 4th of June, in the following year, the grand jury made a presentment to the following effect:--"Whereas we have seen a printed order of the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen, the 25th June, 1700, to prevent the great profaneness, vice, and debauchery, so frequently used and practised in Bartholomew Fair, by strictly charging and commanding all persons concerned in the said fair, and in the sheds and booths to be erected and built therein or places adjacent, that they do not let, set, or hire, or use any booth, shed, stall, or other erection whatsoever to be used or employed for interludes, stage-plays, comedies, gaming-places, lotteries, or music meetings: and as we are informed the present Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen have passed another order to the same effect on the 3rd instant, we take this occasion to return our most hearty thanks for their religious care and great zeal in this matter; we esteeming a renewing of their former practices at the Fair a continuing one of the chiefest nurseries of vice next to the play-houses; therefore earnestly desire that the said orders may be vigorously prosecuted, and that this honourable Court would endeavour that the said fair may be employed to those good ends and purposes it was at first designed."