Mary Webster: The Examination of Mary Webster 20 February 1701/2
Middx & Westmr } Ss The Examination of Mary Webster taken this 20.th day of February 170.
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 that she did there practice a Chymicall preparation in order to finde out the Universal Medicine Mary Webster Cap.t an et die Suꝑdict coram J. Stanley
Source
MINT 15/17/406, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK20 Feb 1700/1, c. 107 words.