Richard Bowman (brewer)

of Wapping Street, Wapping

1818 'The King v. Bowman —The defendant, Richard Bowman, brewer, Wapping-street, St. Georges in the East, was charged upon different counts with having noxious drugs in his possession.
Mr. Lawes on the part of the defendant, prayed the lenity of Court, on the grounds that the defendant had a wife and nine children, and pleaded guilty.
The Commissioners said, that the articles seized must be examined ; and if they were found to contain no deleterious ingredients, that would be ground for mitigating the penalty.
The ingredients seized were produced by the officers, and Mr. Angus, chemist and druggist, examined them. There were 64 pieces of Multum which, the chemist stated, was a mixture of allum, sugar, or treacle and copperas. Copperas, he stated, was pernicious ; the other drugs, he stated, were green copperas and the sulphate of iron, with the vapour from it — it is poisonous. One ounce would put a head on 150 gallons of beer.
The defendant was convicted in the penalty of £200.'

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