Mary Webster: The Examination of Mary Webster 20 February 1701/2

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MINT 15/17/406, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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|Middx & Westm^r } Ss| The Examinaion of Mary Webster taken this 20.^th day of February 170 $\frac{0}{1}$ .

Who saith that she did never diminish any Gold or Silver Moneys the Current coyn of this Kingdome by fileing or otherwise, and that she did never melt any Metall in a Tobacco-pipe, but saith that she has had a Furnace in a Farrott for about 2. Years & a halfe last past, in her now dwelling house in Wine Office Court in Fleetstreet, and y^t she did there practice a Chymicall p^reparaion in order to finde out the Universal Medicine Mary Webster Cap.^t an et die Suꝑdict coram J. Stanley

Professor Rob Iliffe
Director, AHRC Newton Papers Project

Scott Mandelbrote,
Fellow & Perne librarian, Peterhouse, Cambridge

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