The Voluntary Confession and
Examination of Patrick Hayes< no role > taken before
me Henry Fielding< no role > Esqr . One of his
Majesty's of the Peace of theCounty
of Middlesex this 4th. of May 1749 .

This Examinant says that about a Month agoe he
together with Peter Murphy< no role > James wood< no role > Thomas Dollard< no role > ,
Edward Neal< no role > , John Johnson< no role > , and a Person who goes by the
Nickname of King William did go the house of Lionell
Batsford< no role > called by Name of the Henry house at Hackney
Marsh in the Parish of St. John's Hackney in the said
County of Middlesex between Nine and ten of the Clock
at Night, Says that Murphy an Neal opened the Latch
of the house Door and went in and returned immediatly
and brought out two Guns and a Spitt and threw them
into the River, Says that they all went into the said house
again except the said Neal, and forced the Landlord of
the house the said Lionell Batsford< no role > to go with them up
Stairs and shew them his Money, and upon his telling
them were it was, they broke open several Boxes and
feloniously took and Carryed away about Eighteen
pounds in Money, several Sheets and several other
things of which this Examinant had about twenty shillings
for his Share, Says that before they left the house, they
Tyed the said Lionell Batsford< no role > , two Young Women a
Servant Man, and a Little Boy, and then returned home.

Taken before me
this 4th. of may 1749 }

H Fielding

his
Patrick [mark] Hayes< no role >
Mark