Westmorld Ss The InformaionInformation of Henry Smithson of Rash in Swaledale Taken before Richd Brathwait Esqr.Esquire 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 Mr Tippin at Kirkby Steven in the County of Westm.ord and that the SdSaid Duke Robinson, John Park and this Inform:tInformant went into a private Room, and there yethe said Robinson gave the SdSaid Park Eight pounds of Counterfeit Money and halfe a Crown in the pound for uttering of it, and the SdSaid Duke Robinson further SdSaid 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 yethe said Duke Robinson in Kirkby Steven Street aforesdaforesaid, whereupon they two went into one Thomas Elliots Yard in the aforesdaforesaid Town, where the SdSaid Duke Robinson desired the SdSaid Inform:tInformant 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 &ct. coram Richd Brathwait Hen: Smithson