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CASE51934: Horary consultation concerning Mary Bettle (PERSON44108)

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

RN 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)

Mary Bettle (PERSON44108)

Medical >Witchcraft and devil  (Haunted )

Sex, family and generation (Marital relations)

Practitioner: Mr Richard Napier [Sandy] (PERSON5218)

Cite this as: Lauren Kassell, Michael Hawkins, Robert Ralley, John Young, Joanne Edge, Janet Yvonne Martin-Portugues, and Natalie Kaoukji (eds.), The casebooks of Simon Forman and Richard Napier, 1596–1634: a digital edition, https://casebooks.lib.cam.ac.uk/search?expand=volume-name;f1-treatment=No;f3-recipe=No;f4-language=English;f5-time-of-day=PM;f6-patient-age-band=020-029%3A%3A24;f7-date=1620-1629;f8-question-asked=Medical%3A%3AWitchcraft%20and%20devil%3A%3AHaunted, accessed 9 July 2024.

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