Folios 137-139. Two notes dated at Bow Street from Sir John Fielding to Sir Stanier...

Folios 137-139. Two notes dated at Bow Street from Sir John Fielding to Sir Stanier Porten about the condition of a wounded man employed at Hoxton by Mr Miles [Jonathan Miles proprietor of Hoxton House Asylum]. In the first note Fielding says that he has not been able to find any person 'who has such power over Kelly as to get him confined but has some reason to think he is not at large at present'. [The unnamed man was very probably one of the two employees of the Hoxton Asylum sent with Sir John's men to Richmond [Surrey] to secure Captain Josias Cunningham who had previously been sent to the asylum for cutting the trees and piling up paper in Kew Gardens and had recently left a paper for, but not seen by, the King. The paper being taken to court and read, it was judged necessary to involve to Sir John.