City & Liberty of
Westmr in the County
of Middlesex }

Informations taken this Thirtieth day of
April 1779 at the Parish of St. Paul Covent Garden
within the Liberty of Westmr. in the County of
Middlesex upon an Inquisition touching the
death of Martha Lee< no role > lying dead in the said
Parish Liberty and County.

Richard Carus< no role > Journeyman to Mr. Henry
Weedall< no role > of Drury Lane Apothecary on his Oath
saith, That on Saturday Night last the 24th. Instant
between ten & Eleven o'Clock Martha Lee< no role > the Deced
came to Mr. Weedall's Shop Saying that Mr. Nevills
House was Pestered with Rats and that he had
given her a Shilling to buy something to
Poison them and that she was to give it to
Mr. Nevill Apoon as she went home, Says
that knowing the Deced Dept. sold her three
Pennyworth of Corrosive Sublimate which
Deced took away with her, Says that in
about a Quarter of an hour a Woman
came to Dept. saying that the Deced had taken
something which she had at Depts. Shop, upon
which he went to Deced at Mr. Nevill's House
who had comitted much, That he asked the
Deced what she had been doing, to which she
answered that she was Sorry for what she had
done and prayed to God to forgive her, you
are Innocent and they cannot hurt you,
Says that the Deced continued Vomitting
and that he gave her Emetics, and Oil
Says that Mr. Mahon was called in, who
ordered the Deced more Emetics & Oil Says
that the Deced continued, vomitting three
or four days, and was Sensible, the Symptom
then being favourable and Dept. had hopes of
her Recovery, that she afterwards was at
times Delirious and died between Seven
and Eight o'Clock this Morning, and Dept.
believes that her death happened in
Consequence