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CASE44610: Horary consultation concerning Mrs Dorothy Jennings (PERSON32110)

Question asked by Mrs Alice Jennings [Spencer] (PERSON32108) on 3 April 1617 at 10:00

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Richard Napier Mres Alice Iēmings of Offley. Sr Rich Spencers Daughtr for her child. of halfe a yere old {o}|D|\o/rothy Iennings Ap 3. h. 10 ant m. 1617

I receaved a letter

1 first pe{r}ydays left behind

2 how the pouder is to be vsed

3 wheathr Dragon water be to be vsed

4 the cap & w of pa & wheathr it may be left of.

5 to send her oliban’ ij sterny ß. /starteth in her sleepe\

wheathr to forbeare the sucke. suckes well sleepes well is sol{u}{s}

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 198, f. 111r (upper right part of page)

Cite this as: Lauren Kassell, Michael Hawkins, Robert Ralley, John Young, Joanne Edge, Janet Yvonne Martin-Portugues, and Natalie Kaoukji (eds.), ‘CASE44610’, The casebooks of Simon Forman and Richard Napier, 1596–1634: a digital edition, https://casebooks.lib.cam.ac.uk/cases/CASE44610, accessed 19 May 2025.