City of London Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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5th January 1792 - 31st December 1792

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Image 382 of 86115th October 1792


London Information of Witnesses taken at the
parish of Saint Botolph without
Bishopsgate in the ward of Bishopsgate
without in London aforesaid on the 15th day
of October 1792 on view of the body of
Mary Greer< no role > now here lying dead.

Joseph Brown< no role > of No. 235 Shoreditch in the County of
Middlesex Apothecary maketh oath that on [..] Wednesday last
in the Morning a Man applyed to Dept. at his Shop in Shoreditch
for a Medicine for a young Woman< no role > whomwheresaid Man
sayed he supposed had taken something that had hurt her
& upon Dept. asking him what she had taken said Man
sayed she had taken some Unguentum which Dept. tern sin
first Business Unguentum Alverum a compition of White
Lead-and after Dept. had questioned the Man respecting then
Symtonus of the Young Woman< no role > Man,Dept. served the said Man with
an opening, Medicine to operate on the Young Woman< no role > and to
carry off the effects the Composition might hard had on heroffer
that [..] between the hour of four and five in the afternoon of
the next day Thursday a Message having been left for Dept.
he went to a House [..] to No. 26 in Skinner Street
that on going into a back Room on the Ground floor of said house
he saw a young Woman< no role > whom Dept. understands to be the deced
lying in a Bed Dept.asked he how she wasfell her Pulse that she
was sensible-come people in the Room sayed the was betters Dept
asked the young woman< no role > how she was she sayed she was better and
a Woman sayed that the Medicine Dept. had let the Man have
Monday before had done the young Woman< no role > good [..]

Sworn the 15th. day of
October 1792 before me}

Joseph Brown< no role >

James Wise< no role > by trade a Smith< no role > and a lodger at No. 26
Shinner Street Bishopsgate Street London maketh oath that
to hath known the deced Mary Greer about eighteen Months
that she lodged at No. 7 in the same Streetforthis fortnight just
that she [..] often came to Depts. lodging almost dailythat on Tuesday
Evening last about six O Clock on Dept. going home to his Lodging
he found the deced sitting in a Chair in his Room that she appeared




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