Westminster to wit
[..]

The Examination of Patrick Mc. Carnan< no role >
charged on suspicion of a [..] Highway Robbery by Francis Field< no role > Noah Chi [..]
and Joseph Wigg< no role >
of the Parish of Saint Andrew Holborn in
the C ounty of Middlesex
; and taken before me Nicholas Bond< no role > Esquire
one of his MAJESTY'S Justices of the Peace for the
City and Liberty of Westminster [..] this 9th Day of August
17 86 .

Who saith that on Friday last was sevenight about 8 o'Clock
in the Evening his Wife and himself, went to the Anchor and Crown Ale-
-house kept by one Mitchell in Black Horse Yard Rosemary Lane that
they found nobody there That Examinant and his Wife had a Pint of Beer
and each of them Smoaked, and after staying about half an hour three persons
now present who call themselves Charles Frost< no role > Robert Collins< no role > and James
Stewart< no role > , with Mrs. Frost, came into said House, and joined Company with
this Examinant. That in about 20 minutes Robert Dawson< no role > and Peter
Mahoney< no role > two Officers belonging to the Public Office in East Smithfield came
into said Alehouse attended by a Gentleman who had been Robbed (as this
Examinant believes) That said Dawson tapped Examinant on his shoulder
saying that he wanted to speak with him, that they went into a Parlour where
Dawson asked this Examinant if he had not broke out of the Tower Gaol or
some Watch House the Night before, Examinant Replied replied that he
did not. that Dawson observed that from his Cloaths and complexion he
thought he had, that after Staying about 20 minutes the Gentleman and
Officers went away, That this Examinant and his Company remained there
until between 9 and 10 o'Clock when he and his Wife went home, and that
he [..] hath frequented Mitchell's House about a Month.

Taken before me the Day
and Year above written,}

N Bond

Witness Charles Fellows< no role >