Henry Smithson requests funds to investigate a counterfeiting case

Author: Henry Smithson

Source: Ms. 361(2), f. 53r-v, New College Library, Oxford, UK

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Honour,d S^r. May y^e 26^th 1717

Here is com̄ited to this Goile one {illeg}h; Sager and a comon strumpet about the City and to wit an old offender that goes for his wife taken with divers Instruments (and False coyn,d) monney in their Custody I beleive I can obtaine a large discouery From them if I had money to bear them Company and to humor which I will {illeg} diligently pursue if you please to Lay y^e Summe on me soe to do; I am S^r. yo^r poore destress,d Seru^t, to command from y^e Kings ward in the Marshalsea Henꝫ; Smithsonꝫ pray S^r. fauoring with yo^r Ansq^r

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for S^r. Isack Newton att his House in S^t Martins {illeg} Street LONDON

Professor Rob Iliffe
Director, AHRC Newton Papers Project

Scott Mandelbrote,
Fellow & Perne librarian, Peterhouse, Cambridge

Faculty of History, George Street, Oxford, OX1 2RL - newtonproject@history.ox.ac.uk

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