GREY, Thomas

Physicians and Irregular Medical Practitioners in London 1550-1640 Database. Originally published by Centre for Metropolitan History, London, 2004.

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Thomas GREY

Biography

Name Thomas GREY
Gender Male
Primary occupation medical apothecary (Apothecary. Grocer. Warden GC 1580. Charter member SA??)
Period of medical practice 1550-1590
Date of death 1590
Address St Dionis Backchurch 1570-90
Other notes Punished 1560, with his servant William TOPPY 744 (q.v.) for selling bad pills. Died propertied.

Known London address

St Dionis Backchurch
Parish St Dionis Backchurch
Ward Langborne
Date 1570-90
House in St Mary Street, Limestreet ward
Parish St Andrew Undershaft [incl St Mary Axe, 1565]
Ward Aldgate
Date pre-1602

Censorial hearings

1559-60
Entry 'But the grocers Edward Stephenson, Hugh Morgan, Thomas Grey and his servant William Toppy were punished because they had sold and without the authority of a physician prescribed pills which they had made badly from vinegar of squills.'
Action taken Punished.
Verdict guilty
Sentence Punished