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CASE16000: Horary consultation concerning Isabel Barthrum (PERSON9515)

Question asked by the patient on 28 December 1603 at 12:00

RN Isbell Bartrom of Stadgdon 23 y De a meaden Decēb. 28 hor. 12. 1603. hart back

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 207, f. 173v (upper right part of page)

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CASE36528: Horary consultation concerning Alice Nichols (PERSON27021)

Question asked by the patient on 14 September 1609 at 17:00

GJ Alice Nichols of Ecton 17 y Septemb. 14 ho.

RN backe & arme. boath armes

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 203, f. 157v (upper right part of page)

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CASE43612: Horary consultation concerning Frideswide Constable (PERSON29249)

Question asked by the patient on 6 July 1616 at 13:30

RN friswyth Constable of marsen wth will Robyns. 22 y Iuly 6. h {sic} hor. 1. 30 p m 16i6. |in her backe crying & cā fynd no rest|

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 408, f. 128v (upper right part of page)

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CASE16936: Horary consultation concerning Goody Elizabeth Drawater (PERSON11378)

Question asked by the patient on 17 May 1602 at 08:50

RN Elisabeth Drawater of Islip. by Thropson 35 y. maij 17 hor 8. 50 ant m. 1602. mutch greefe a fistula in her back rūing a great fluxe.

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 221, f. 46r (upper right part of page)

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CASE74787: Horary consultation concerning Goody Catherine Prentice (PERSON57045)

Question asked by the patient on 6 June 1632 at 08:00

RN katherin prentice of Houghton va. 43 y Iune 6 h. 8. ant m. 1632 |back belly & sydes|1

[Astrological Chart]

water good

was prsent

[Astrological Chart]

Notes:

1 ‘Iane Hopkins.’ in chart

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 416, p. 214 (bottom right part of page)

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CASE75730: Horary consultation concerning Elizabeth Wilkes (PERSON61820)

Question asked by Wilkes (PERSON61818) on 20 October 1632 at 11:30

RN A|E|lis Wilx of Souldbery 2. y & bettr Octob 20 {illeg}|| hor 11. 30 ant m 1632. /witch susp. wth palsye. stoken lame in the back {out} any ground\ /mater filia\

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 214, p. 83 (upper left part of page)

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CASE49649: Horary consultation concerning Susan Elliot (PERSON30155)

Question asked by the patient on 9 September 1619 at 10:15

RN Susan Elyot. of. Heath & Reach |42| 30|y| sept. 9. h 10. 15 ant m. 16i9: susp. annys Hickmā payned vnder the left syde of her backe ready to stop her wynd & vomyted|th| still

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 235, f. 181v (upper right part of page)

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CASE44334: Horary consultation concerning Mrs Elizabeth Wilmar (PERSON21201)

Question asked by the patient on 24 February 1617 at 09:00

RN Mres Eliz. Wilmore of Stachden 40 y febr. 24. h. 9 ant m 1617 /backe syde belly & thighes\

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 198, f. 69r (upper right part of page)

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CASE47159: Decumbiture for Joan Hall (PERSON31290)

Question asked by the patient on 24 July 1618 at 15:20

RN Ione Hall of waresly 66 y Iuly 24  {sic} \13. / h. 3. 25|0| p m 1618. {sic} /Iuly 13 h. 7 p m 1618\

subito correpta pedib tergo et stomacko. cā not swallow any thing by reason yt the flegme coming vp troubleth her excedingly1

[Astrological Chart]

Notes:

1

Ellen Hollan a widowe.

Alce

’ in the left margin

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 201, f. 197r (upper right part of page)

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CASE30418: Horary consultation concerning Joan Woodward (PERSON26162)

Question asked by the patient on 3 January 1607 at 12:00

RN Ione Woodwarde of Hardmead 50 y Ian 3. {illeg}|| hor 12. in m. 1607.

lame in her backe loynes. feetes. cānot sty{rre}1

[Astrological Chart]

Notes:

1 ‘lame in her ioyntes’ in chart

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 193, f. 44v (upper right part of page)

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CASE57561: Horary consultation concerning Mr Oliver Boteler (PERSON28235)

Question asked by Lady Anne Boteler [Farrar] [Butler] (PERSON28242) on 3 January 1624 at 11:45

RN The lady \An/ Butler for her mr Oliver Butler 9 y next march bone {sic} 28 or 29 about 12 & on in the night. of Harolde sent to me for this child Ian 3 h {sic} hor 11. 45 ant m 1623 {sic}. extree {sic} weake & feeble & cā take no physick taken wth strang fits plucking his \right/ syde & rūneth to his back being holden harde & an extree {sic} cough almost halfe a yere. & is pyned & cā not stand nor goe Ill tong suspected

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 413, f. 53r (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.), The casebooks of Simon Forman and Richard Napier, 1596–1634: a digital edition, https://casebooks.lib.cam.ac.uk/search?f1-question-asked=Medical%3A%3AWitchcraft%20and%20devil%3A%3AWitchcraft%20suffered%20%28medical%29;f3-question-asked=Medical%3A%3AParts%20of%20the%20body%3A%3ATorso%3A%3ABack;f4-querent-sex=Female, accessed 15 March 2025.