Westminster to wit

The Examination of Mary Carroll< no role > charged
with Felony by John Dobison< no role > of Inner Temple
Lane in the City of London Gentleman , taken
before, me William Addington< no role > [..] Esquire One of his Majesty's
Justices of the Peace in and for the City and Liberty
of Westminster this 24th. day of October 1786

Who saith that she did steal the Wearing Apparel and Plate from
the said John Dobison< no role > as charged by him, which Theft she committed
by the Advice of Ruth Dean< no role > and her Husband (John Dean< no role > ) who
live in Spread Eagle Court Grays Inn Lane and which said Dean
and his Wife stood at the bottom of the Stairs at No. 4 Inner Temple
Lane till this Examinant brought the Effects to them with which they
all three went through the Temple to Fleet Ditch where they got into
a Coach with Mr. Dobison's Effects and drove to the Borough where
Dean discharged the Coach paying one shilling and six pence That
they all three went to a Public House up a Court in the Borough where
they staid about two hours, during which time Ruth Dean< no role > Pawned a
street for four shililngs at Mr. Davidson's near Saint George's Church and
a Shirt for five shillings at another Pawn brokers near that place That they then
took a Coach and came to Ludgate Hill where Dean being drunk
got out That said Ruth Dean< no role > and Examinant went to the bottom
of Holborn Hill where said Ruth Dean< no role > got out with the Effects of Mr.
Dobison saying that she knew a person in Oxford Street who would
buy them and appointed this Examinant to meet her at the Wine
Vaults at the bottom of Holborn Hill at Nine o'Clock the next morning
to receive her share of the Money for which the Effects were sold [..]
but to which place she did no go nor hath she since seen the said
Ruth Dean< no role > or her Husband, nor can she tell what hath become of the
remainder of the Effects

Taken and acknowledged
the Day and Year aforesd: before me}
W Addington

Mary Carval

Witness [..]