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CASE51934: Horary consultation concerning Mary Bettle (PERSON44108)

Question asked by the patient on 17 January 1621 at 15:40

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Richard Napier Thomas Bettle of Bozeat most dogged to his wife as on hanted wth an ill spirit & loveth a wench in the towne. hath beyond the seas done some desp deede & rā into England curseth & bā{re}th & threatneth his wife his wife signifyed this vnto me Ian 17 h. 3. 40

he beateth her ill most cōtinually

Mary Betle his wife

Transcribed entry from MS Ashmole 233, f. 36r (bottom left part of page)

Cite this as: Lauren Kassell, Michael Hawkins, Robert Ralley, John Young, Joanne Edge, Janet Yvonne Martin-Portugues, and Natalie Kaoukji (eds.), ‘CASE51934’, The casebooks of Simon Forman and Richard Napier, 1596–1634: a digital edition, https://casebooks.lib.cam.ac.uk/cases/CASE51934, accessed 20 August 2025.