Christopher Emmerson: The further Information of Christopher Emmerson aka Burrows 18 May 1704

The above named Christopher Emerson als Burrows the 18.th day of May 1704. further Informeth and Saith that on Satturday the 29.th of Aprill last theis Inform:t met the abovenamed[Editorial Note 1] Edw.d Holt at Long Preston in in {sic} the County of York, at the stable end near the Sign of the Sunn (the Sd Holt refusing to go into the house or to be seen with this Inform:t there) and there Holt order'd this Inform:t to be at his house on Monday next following, wch this Depon.t did accordingly and lay there that night and from thence went the next morning to the Shop of John Ryley smith, as is above meniond, and there finding the Sd John Ryley this Inform:t told him he was sent by Edw: Holt, by the same token yt he had <1v> given the Sd Holt a receipt for cureing the Farsie upon wch token Ryley was free with this Inform:t, and im̄ediately went to work by this Inform:ts direcons, 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:t continued working, and Instructing the Sd Ryley at his Smithshop, where this Inform:t dined out of a peice of pye which the Sd Ryley brot to his Shop, and at night this Inform:t 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 ye next morning returned to Ryleys shopp, and continued working there and instructing as aforesd untill about 1. or 2. a Clock of yt day when the wife of John Ryley came and told her husband, that all things were ready at her house, and towards the Even being ye 4.th of May Instant, this Inform:t and John Ryley went from his shopp to his dwelling house (about $\frac{\mathrm{1}}{\mathrm{2}}$ a mile off) where within night there came both Edw.d & Thomas Holt, and a little after them came the within named[Editorial Note 2] Samuel, John & Alex.er Fletcher's, and then they all went to work in the presence of ye 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 wch was made of a mixed Metall prepared according to this Informants direcon, & bro.t thither by ye Sd 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.t lay yt 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 ye casting the 15.£ before meniond, but ye other Six were not filled with Lead, but were rough and unfixed, and this Inform:t 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 meniond 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 ye next morning, went with his said Tooles and Bagg went {sic} to the house of Edm.o Staining before meniond[Editorial Note 3] where this Inform:t with the privity and consent of ye Sd 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:t first shewing her the 12. hoops and melting pann telling her what mony this Inform:t had cast with them the week before at John Ryleys house and she telling this Inform:t that her husbd was then at one Richard Goodings house <2r> house {sic}about a mile thence, And this Inform:t went thither and found ye said Staning and told him of the Iron Instrumts he had left with his wife as aforesd wherewith he seemed very well pleased, and after that ye Sd Staning, desired this Inform:t to goe to Henry Elletsons house at plumb geen in Furness Fells in the Sd County of Lancaster, who (Staning said) could pass off any money into Scotland and that way. And thereupon this Inform:t promised to Goe over to Elletsonss and that same night Viz.t) on satturday last, this Inform:t got to Gangate in Ellell within 3. miles of Lancaster and the next morning came to Lancaster.

And this Inform:t further saith, yt the Bagg and Six Iron Hoopes and melting pann now shew'd to him, are part of ye Instrumts So left as aforesd by this Inform:t at Edm.o Stanings house on Satturday the 12.th Instant, but are none of the 6. Hoopes made use of in ye casting of the 15.£ as aforesd 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