Henry Smithson: The Information of Henry Smithson 8 October 1702

|Westmorl^d Ss| The Informaion of Henry Smithson of Rash in Swaledale Taken before Richd Brathwait Esq^r. Octob.^er 8.^th 1702

Who saith that sometime last year he was in Company with Duke Robinson and John Park of Gunnerside in the County of York at the house of M^r Tippin at Kirkby Steven in the County of Westm.^ord and that the S^d Duke Robinson, John Park and this Inform:^t went into a private Room, and there y^e said Robinson gave the S^d Park Eight pounds of Counterfeit Money and halfe a Crown in the pound for uttering of it, and the S^d Duke Robinson further S^d that if things were kept private they might grow Rich by it - And he further saith upon his Oath, that last Monday he met with y^e said Duke Robinson in Kirkby Steven Street afores^d, whereupon they two went into one Thomas Elliots Yard in the afores^d Town, where the S^d Duke Robinson desired the S^d Inform:^t to say nothing of what he knew of him, for that rather than it shud be known further, he would give him twenty pounds for concealing the same or words to that Effect Capt. jurat &c^t. coram Richd Brathwait            Hen: Smithson