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CASE69396: Horary consultation concerning James Bislee (PERSON44235) and Bislee (PERSON44234) and Walter Bislee (PERSON44237)

Question asked by Mr Smith (PERSON58954) on 12 September 1629 at 16:30

RN Mr Snite of Warborough mynister a batch. placed fellow of Corp Chri College in Oxford & m chosen by the house to be son \Curate/ in yt place 20l a yere wrote most kindly in \the behalfe/ of Iohn Bislee his neighbour for his 3 child but specially for his sone Iames 2. y. Sept 12. h {sic} hor 4. 30 p m 1629

his child Iames is 2. y. sucketh still & will take a litle drink.

Iames 2. y.

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 406, f. 167v (upper left, and upper right parts of page)

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CASE53837: Horary consultation concerning Edward Nashe (PERSON55175) and Thomas Nashe (PERSON55186)

Question asked by Anonymous (PERSON39401) on 8 April 1622 at 15:20

RN Edw. Nash of North Crowly 4 y. Th nash. 3 quarters old Ap 8 || h. 3. 20 p m. 1622 troubled wth a mighty cough.

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 223, f. 45r (upper right part of page)

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CASE29785: Horary consultation concerning Mr Isaac (PERSON13138) and Mrs Sara Isaac (PERSON20001)

Question asked by Mr Isaac (PERSON13138) on 24 September 1605 at 11:00

RN Sara Isaac of fensā 17 y. sept 24 h 11 ant m. 1605

Mr Isaac for him selfe.

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 216, f. 206v (upper right, and bottom left parts of page)

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CASE24215: Horary consultation concerning Goody Anne [Agnes] Gale [Anne Morgan] (PERSON14264) and Edward Gale (PERSON30739)

Question asked by Goody Anne [Agnes] Gale [Anne Morgan] (PERSON14264) on 7 January 1615 at 11:30

RN An Gale of Goldington. 28 y Ian 7. h {sic} hor. 11. \30/ ant m. 1614 {sic} /looketh to be delivered on candlemas\1

[Astrological Chart]

Margery Steaphenson & Ione Chāberlyn & Elis Gale & Ellen Warner so reputed

Edward Gale her Dau sonne 4 y. Well by fits & then cōpl of ye hart.

Notes:

1 ‘is wth child’ in chart

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 237, f. 144r (upper right part of page)

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CASE68541: Horary consultation concerning Mrs Joan [Joanna] Prescot (PERSON57057) and Mr John Prescot (PERSON57051)

Question asked by Mrs Joan [Joanna] Prescot (PERSON57057) on 25 May 1629 at 16:00

RN Mres Prescot of Kemolton priory 60 y may 25 h. 4. p m. 1629 /metuit veneficiū nothing spereth wth them {sic} |them|\

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 406, f. 22r (upper left, and upper right parts of page)

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CASE79174: Horary consultation concerning Mrs Eleanor Aylet [Goody Aylet] (PERSON43142) and Aylet (PERSON43139) and Mr John Aylet (PERSON43137)

Question asked by Mrs Eleanor Aylet [Goody Aylet] (PERSON43142) on 7 October 1634 at 09:45

SRN Mrs. Eloner Aylett of Magdalen Laver. |for her selfe & her child./.|

October. 7. . h. 9. 45. a. m. 1634. /she sent hither ye 22th of septembr\

[Astrological Chart]

There was a match propounded her for her daughter & it brake of agayne. now there is another oferd & desires to know the issue whether it will be good to hearken to it or noe.

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 412, f. 157r (upper left, and bottom right parts of page)

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CASE49486: Horary consultation concerning John Scarcroffe (PERSON35129) and Scarcroffe (PERSON35130)

Question asked by John Scarcroffe (PERSON35129) and Scarcroffe (PERSON35130) on 10 August 1619 at 16:40

RN Iohn Scoc\r/{ou}ft {sic} \Scocraft./ of of {sic} Ravensdon in bedfordsheere 50 y Iuly Aug 10 h. 4. 40. p m. 1619. /was prsent\ /his wife lame & her hucklebone {out.}\

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 235, f. 148v (upper right, and bottom left parts of page)

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CASE78978: Horary consultation concerning Mrs Eleanor Aylet [Goody Aylet] (PERSON43142) and Mr John Aylet (PERSON43138) and Aylet (PERSON43139)

Question asked by Mrs Eleanor Aylet [Goody Aylet] (PERSON43142) on 3 April 1634 at 16:30

TG Mrs. Elenor Ailet of Magdelyn Laver 40 y. April. 3 h. 4 30 p M. 1634.

sent her letter suspecteth witchCraft her husband selfe, & family haue bin much tormented, Lost diuers of their Cattell well ouer night dead in the morneinge. sometymes their Cowes will giue no milke at all, at others they will kicke it downe.

[Astrological Chart]

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

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CASE46520: Horary consultation concerning Mrs Susan Pedder (PERSON24871) and Mr Pedder (PERSON34163)

Question asked by Mrs Susan Pedder (PERSON24871) on 30 April 1618 at 11:30

RN Mres Podder \the younger/ of Potters Perry 30|3| y Ap 30 h 11. 30 p m {sic} 1618.

hath not had the right course of her body these 3 yers.

feareth a cōsumption |& what is good to kepe her frō it|

vyyn {sic} very good.

would have a purge for her selfe & her husb. who feareth his father disease careth not for meate is Iealous of his wife being very honest & chast. & is sometyes {sic} lunatick & mad 4 y. & a halfe every 3 or 4 days.

he thincketh yt he is bewitched wth on a womā yt gave his mother physick./

& Mr Pedders w{atr} Ap 30 h.

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 201, f. 79v (upper left, and upper right parts of page)

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CASE63326: Horary consultation concerning Agnes Lucas (PERSON53956) and Richard Lucas (PERSON53943)

Question asked by Agnes Lucas (PERSON53956) and Richard Lucas (PERSON53943) on 1 March 1627 at 11:25

RN Agnys Lucas of Holwell of Gilsborough parish 60 y march 1. h. 11. 25 ant m 1627

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 227, f. 10v (upper left part of page)

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CASE74387: Horary consultation concerning Thomas Howlet (PERSON52015) and Margaret Howlet (PERSON52018)

Question asked by John Howlet (PERSON52013) between 21 April 1632 at 14:00 and 23 April 1632 at 07:30

RN Iohn Howlets childrē on Iohn \Thomas/ & margaret they would leape out of there bods & feele things rising of Bythen in Hūtingdon sheere

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 416, p. 99 (bottom left, and bottom right parts 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-practitioner-is-querent=No;f2-extent-of-transcription=Excerpt;f3-patient-sex=Male;f4-question-asked=Medical%3A%3AWitchcraft%20and%20devil;f5-question-asked=Personal%20affairs;f6-number-of-patients=Multiple%20patients, accessed 2 June 2024.