The Privy Council drafts a letter to the lieutenants of Middlesex, apprising them of a plot by a band of rogue apprentices to wreak havoc at the Fortune, Red Bull and Cockpit. The Council reports that apprentices are threatening to gather at the Fortune on the coming Shrove Tuesday, and then tear down the Red Bull and Cockpit in retaliation for the arrest and punishment of fellow apprentices, following the Shrove Tuesday riot of the previous year. The Middlesex lieutenants are ordered to post extra watches and muster bands of guards to prevent any disorder.