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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 Mrs Alice Jemmings of Offley. Sir Rich Spencers Daughter for her child. of halfe a yere old {o}|D|\o/rothy Jennings Ap 3. Thursday h. 10 am. 1617

I receaved a letter

1 first pe{r}ydays left behind

2 how the pouder is to be used

3 wheather Dragon water be to be used

4 the cap & w of paper & wheather it may be left of.

5 to send her oliban’ ii sterny semis. /starteth in her sleepe\

wheather 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?show=normalised, accessed 19 May 2025.