The above named Christopher Emerson alsalias Burrows the 18.th day of May
1704. further Informeth and Saith that on Satturday the 29.th of Aprill
last theis Inform:tInformant met the abovenamedSee Deposition No. 480. Edw.d Holt at Long Preston in
in the County of York, at the stable end near the Sign of the Sunn
(the SdSaid Holt refusing to go into the house or to be seen with this Inform:tInformant there)
and there Holt order'd this Inform:tInformant to be at his house on Monday
next following, wchwhich this Depon.tDeponent did accordingly and lay there that night
and from thence went the next morning to the Shop of John Ryley
smith, as is above meniondmentioned, and there finding the SdSaid John Ryley this
Inform:tInformant told him he was sent by Edw: Holt, by the same token ytthat he had given the
given the SdSaid Holt a receipt for cureing the Farsie upon wchwhich token Ryley
was free with this Inform:tInformant, and im̄ediately went to work by this Inform:tInformants
direconsdirections, in makeing Hoops or Rim̄s for casting Counterfeit money, and
all that day (viz.t) on Tuesday the 2.d of may instant this Inform:tInformant continued
working, and Instructing the SdSaid Ryley at his Smithshop, where this Inform:tInformant
dined out of a peice of pye which the SdSaid Ryley brotbrought to his Shop, and at
night this Inform:tInformant went back to holts house to bed, and the
next morning went to Ryleys house Shopp, where he continued all
that day, working with and instructing the said Ryley, and did also dine
at the Shop, and at night went back to Holts to bed, and yethe next
morning returned to Ryleys shopp, and continued working there and
instructing as aforesdaforesaid untill about 1. or 2. a Clock of ytthat day when the
wife of John Ryley came and told her husband, that all things were ready
at her house, and towards the EvenEvening being yethe 4.th of May Instant, this Inform:tInformant
and John Ryley went from his shopp to his dwelling house (about a mile off) where within night there came both Edw.d & Thomas Holt, and a little after them came the within namedSee Deposition No. 480. Samuel, John & Alex.er Fletcher's, and then they all went to work in the presence of yethe wife of Jo.n Ryley and Judith their Daughter, in makeing counterfeit money, and they did that night cast about 15.£ in counterfeit Crowns & halfe Crowns wchwhich was made of a mixed Metall prepared according to this Informants direcondirection, & bro.tbrought thither by yethe SdSaid Edward Holt, the same being made of Block Tyn Tyn-glass, white Spelter and Antimony, And as the money was costing (and before it was quite cold) some of the Standers by rubb'd the peices over with a white Powder or past made of Aqua Fortis with Silver fileings, and a dram of Tartar compounded or mix't togeather And about day break on fryday morning the company parted, when he this Informant went to bed in the same house of John Ryley and from that time continued in Ryleys house till thursday the 11.th of May instant, and then went back again to Holts house where this Depon.tDeponent lay ytthat night, and the next morning came againe to Ryleys, and takeing with him 12. Iron Hoops or Rim̄s, whereof Six were filled with lead, and were the same that were used in yethe casting the 15.£ before meniondmentioned, but yethe other Six were not filled with Lead, but were rough and unfixed, and this Inform:tInformant took them all away, togeather with an Iron pann, such as is used to melt lead in, and was one those pannes that was used in the casting the 15.£ before meniondmentioned And on the same Fryday the 12.th of may Instant, this Informant with the said 12 hoops, & melting pann in a whote Coarse bagg went to the house of Thomas Watson (near Sr Nicholas Sherborns at Stanihurst in this County of Lanc.er) and lay there that night. And yethe next morning, went with his said Tooles and Bagg went to the house of Edm.o Staining before meniondmentionedSee Deposition No. 480, there and further here spelled "Staning". where this Inform:tInformant with the privity and consent of yethe SdSaid Edm.o Stanings wife, lade the said 12 Iron Hoops & melting pan under a table in a little dark Room or Closet in the house of the said Staning, this Inform:tInformant first shewing her the 12. hoops and melting pann telling her what mony this Inform:tInformant had cast with them the week before at John Ryleys house and she telling this Inform:tInformant that her husbdhusband was then at one Richard Goodings house about a mile
houseabout a mile thence, And this Inform:tInformant went thither and found yethe said Staning and told him of the Iron InstrumtsInstruments he had left with his wife as aforesdaforesaid wherewith he seemed very well pleased, and after that yethe SdSaid Staning, desired this Inform:tInformant to goe to Henry Elletsons house at plumb geen in Furness Fells in the SdSaid County of Lancaster, who (Staning said) could pass off any money into Scotland and that way. And thereupon this Inform:tInformant promised to Goe over to Elletsonss and that same night Viz.t) on satturday last, this Inform:tInformant got to Gangate in Ellell within 3. miles of Lancaster and the next morning came to Lancaster.
And this Inform:tInformant further saith, ytthat the Bagg and Six Iron Hoopes and melting pann now shew'd to him, are part of yethe InstrumtsInstruments So left as aforesdaforesaid by this Inform:tInformant at Edm.o Stanings house on Satturday the 12.th Instant, but are none of the 6. Hoopes made use of in yethe casting of the 15.£ as aforesdaforesaid but the melting pan was made use on at that time. Christoꝑ his X mark Emerson
Capt. et jur apud Lancr. in Com Lancr anno et die Suꝑdit coram nobis Cha: Rigby
Tho.s Sheston