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CASE51849: Horary consultation concerning Mrs Alice Miles (PERSON33257)

Question asked by the patient on 20 December 1620 at 11:38

RN Mres Myles of Watton 50 y Decēb 20. h 11. 38 ant m 1620.

Mres Myles of Watton 50 y of Watton Decēb 20 h. 11. 30 ant m 1620

Mres Myles of Watton Decemb. 20 h. 11. 38 ant m 1620

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 233, f. 20r (upper right, and bottom left parts of page)

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CASE43747: Horary consultation concerning Lady Mary Ventris (PERSON36355)

Question asked by the patient on 12 August 1616 between 17:00 and 17:15

RN The lady Ventres Sara Warner susp

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 408, f. 148v (upper right part of page)

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CASE78980: Horary consultation concerning Mrs Faith Sage (PERSON58116) and Sage (PERSON58113)

Question asked by Mrs Faith Sage (PERSON58116) between 3 April 1634 at 16:30 and 4 April 1634 at 13:15

SRN Fayth Sage for the like strong prsumptions of witchcraft

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 412, f. 117r (bottom right part of page)

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CASE56606: Horary consultation concerning Goody Elizabeth Windmill (PERSON62013)

Question asked by the patient on 28 June 1623 at 13:00

RN Elis Wyndmyll of Hanslop. 54 y Iune 28 1. p m 1623. /Doth faulter in her speach\

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 218, f. 148r (bottom right part of page)

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CASE20315: Decumbiture for James Flavell (PERSON11796)

Question asked by the patient on 28 January 1602 at 11:00

RN this disease tooke him vnder the eare first as if he had bene stroken sodenly as it were wth a planet. Decēb. 10 hor 4. {illeg}|15| p m 1602.

feareth ill tounges.

Clement Whitton feared

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 404, f. 277r (middle, bottom left, and bottom right parts of page)

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CASE28213: Horary consultation concerning Margaret Dolt (PERSON19493)

Question asked by the patient on 9 October 1606 at 13:00

RN Margaret Dolte of Hockly. 55 y Octob. 9 h. 1. p m 16061

[Astrological Chart]

Notes:

1 ‘troubled in minde’ in chart

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 215, f. 284v (upper left, and upper right parts of page)

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CASE10864: Horary consultation concerning Robert Hodges (PERSON12825)

Question asked by the patient on 17 June 1600 between 13:15 and 15:30

RN Robart Hodges of Greenefild 50 a marid man nevr had child. hath purchased a ground of 2 Hundred pound & the next yere following was troubled wth som ill thing or two as big as mice wthin his shoulders wch when he bruised he was wonderfully prucked {sic}

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 202, f. 111r (bottom right, and bottom left parts of page)

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CASE75137: Horary consultation concerning Margery James (PERSON52445)

Question asked by the patient on 21 July 1632 at 07:30

RN margery Iames of Greete by Winscombe in Glocester sheere 50 myles henc almost 50 y Iuly 21 h {sic} {illeg}|h|or. {8} {sic}{sic} 7. 30 ant m 1632 |ma\r/yed|

She is hanted as she thinketh wth an ill spirite & feeleth some living thing roll vp & downe in her & it will pluck her & gather all togeather./ then downe in the bottome of her belly & then rū vp to her hart & syde ill sinc whitsontyde

Mr freemā her mr cured her 15 y since.

was very sickly always.

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 416, p. 329 (upper left part of page)

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CASE11891: Horary consultation concerning William Seer (PERSON15703)

Question asked by the patient on 21 December 1598 at 12:45

RN Will: Seere of haversham. 53 yeres old sitteth vp by the fier, very stiffe & hardly to {ground} onc in 24 houres complayneth of his body & lims & legs most in on of his sides all over his left syde ever sinc March last: first amisse not able to goe over the Dore threshall. sinc Alhalloutide. sent his wife to me Decēb. 21. die . h. 12. 45. 1598. on of his legs the left wonderfully swelled. a very diseased body & hath had a greate cough.1

[Astrological Chart]

Notes:

1 ‘feare lest he be beworded’ in chart

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 228, f. 70v (upper 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.), The casebooks of Simon Forman and Richard Napier, 1596–1634: a digital edition, https://casebooks.lib.cam.ac.uk/search?f1-judgment=No;f2-recipe=No;f3-patient-age-band=050-059;f4-patient-knowledge=Patient%20asked%20the%20question;f5-question-asked=Medical%3A%3AWitchcraft%20and%20devil;f6-treatment=Yes, accessed 25 June 2024.