CASE19512: Decumbiture for Robert Kinsweeke (PERSON13411)
Question asked by the patient on 4 July 1601 at 08:00
RN Robart Kinsweeke of Elstoe 54 y. taken in London taken on the right syde fyngers head & feete wth a swelling. Apr. 25. vppon St Markes Day being satterday betwixt 6 & 7 in the morning. was first taken. Apr. 25. die ♄ hor 6. 30. ant m. 160i. betwixt 3 & 4 aftr noone could not styrre & the sunday morning could not speake
[Partial Astrological Chart]
he was blasted in a garden.1
[Astrological Chart]
Notes:
1 ‘blasted in a garden’ in chart
Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 404, f. 134r (upper left part of page)
Robert Kinsweeke (PERSON13411)
Medical >Parts of the body>Torso (Side(s))
Medical >Parts of the body>Limbs and joints (FingersFeet)
Medical >Parts of the body>Head and neck (Head)
Medical >Symptoms (specified)>Bloating and swelling (Swelling)
Medical >Symptoms (specified)>Lame, numb or paralysed (Cannot use part)
Medical >Symptoms (specified)>Speech problems (Cannot speak)
CASE65442: Decumbiture for Richard Shephard (PERSON58578)
Question asked by the patient on 29 February 1628 at 10:30
RN Suddenly taken in his \right/ arme the vse taken away payned in the throate swelled wth a cough & taken wth strong & strang fits & is very hot in his fits wch continue above halfe a day feb. 17 ☉ h. 12. p m. 1628
[Astrological Chart]
Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 410, f. 115v (upper right part of page)
Richard Shephard (PERSON58578)
Medical >Parts of the body>Limbs and joints (Arms)
Medical >Symptoms (specified)>Pain and pricking (Pain)
Medical >Parts of the body>Head and neck (Throat and mouth)
Medical >Symptoms (specified)>Bloating and swelling (Swelling)
Medical >Symptoms (specified)>Respiratory problems (Cough)
Medical >Witchcraft and devil (Strange affliction)
CASE11801: Decumbiture for Mrs Frances Lea [Vines] (PERSON16711)
Question asked by the patient between 14 November 1598 and 15 November 1598
RN Mres Vines took her sicknes at Piddington 30 of maye die ♂ h. betwixt 9. & 10 walking at night in her orcharde. & it tooke away her speache & brought a palsy in her side & armes. shee had no vse of her lims. 1598. die ♂ h. 9. 30 mi. p m maij 30. 1598.1
[Astrological Chart]
Notes:
1 ‘a palsye.’ in chart
Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 228, f. 52v (upper left part of page)
CASE24790: Decumbiture for Margery Barnes (PERSON27785)
Question asked by the patient on 18 May 1610 at 10:00
RN Margery Barnes of Newp. \Olnye.// 40 y may 18 ♀ h. 10 ant m 16i0. watched a dead corse maij {illeg} 11. ♀ h. 9. p m 16i0 stroken wth some ill thinge |shoulder \left/ arme sore red swelled./|
[Astrological Chart]
Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 239, f. 38v (bottom left part of page)
CASE50256: Decumbiture for an Anonymous (PERSON38783)
Question asked by the patient on 7 February 1620 at 12:30
RN on fryday night about 12 of the clock was taken very strangly backe belly & every where as it were wth huc\coc/kes fryday & satterday night lay as on yt should dete
feb. 4. ♀ h. 12. at night
[Astrological Chart]
Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 213, f. 127r (bottom right part of page)
CASE60479: Decumbiture for Mr Wingate (PERSON62023)
Question asked by the patient on 20 May 1625 at 11:00
RN Mr Wyndgate taken wth \his/ old fits wth an Idle brayne & full of talke may 13. ♀ h. 12. 16251
[Astrological Chart]
Notes:
1 ‘fell sick’ in chart
Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 217, f. 96v (bottom left part of page)
CASE64885: Decumbiture for Henry [Harry] Wallis (PERSON16774)
Question asked by the patient on 5 November 1627 at 10:00
RN vseth to bleed mutch at nose & yest night he bleede a quart & so /also before yt he swonded wth it waterish blood.\ h. 12. 20 p m 1627 /novēb. 4. ☉ h. 12. 20 p {sic} 1627\ |head ach.|
[Astrological Chart]
Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 227, f. 262r (upper left part of page)
CASE65223: Decumbiture for Sir William Samuell (PERSON25233)
Question asked by the patient on 21 January 1628 at 09:00
RN fell sick on satt last betwixt 11 & 12. & is sorely payned & cānot hath no vse of his lims & cānot styr him selfe & swoundeth often
[Astrological Chart]
Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 410, f. 67r (upper right, and bottom right parts of page)
CASE67646: Decumbiture for Matthew Bloud (PERSON44327)
Question asked by the patient on 29 January 1629 at 14:30
RN Taken in the night wth a rising in her st{omack} frō the left syde to her hart causing often swounding Ian 28 ☿ h. 12 p m {sic} 1629
[Astrological Chart]
Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 407, f. 36r (bottom right part of page)
CASE67897: Decumbiture for Mr Thomas Anderton (PERSON42696)
Question asked by the patient on 16 March 1629 at 08:30
RN Mr Anderton taken wth a fore flatulent melanch. passion wth a sore beating of his stomack ill after meate & after his first sleepe eating very litle at all tyme a bad Digest stomack full of wynd & choler was taken wth a sore fit Decēb. 11 ♃ h. 12. 30 p m. 1629|8|. 1628.
[Astrological Chart]
Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 407, f. 86v (bottom left, and bottom right parts of page)
CASE25586: Decumbiture for Mrs Elizabeth Palmer [Chapman] (PERSON14648)
Question asked by the patient on 6 November 1610 at 11:45
RN ye hath bene sick by fits. but yesterdaye about 3 of the clock in ye after noone taken & tormented & gryped in her stomack & belly & Doth. cast in the extremitye of her fit & otherwise.
[Astrological Chart]
Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 239, f. 150v (bottom left part of page)
CASE32602: Decumbiture for Mr Thomas Kelly (PERSON24000)
Question asked by the patient between 23 January 1608 at 14:00 and 25 January 1608 at 09:50
RN Thomas kelly Ian 22. ♀ h. 9 ant m had a sore shaking aguish fit 1608.
the lady Constables mā. Thomas kelly fell into a new & a strang aguish fit shaking bed & chābr round about ♄. 9. ant m. 1608.
[Astrological Chart]
Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 193, f. 345v (upper left, and bottom left parts of page)
CASE50069: Decumbiture for Mr Christopher Turner (PERSON36242)
Question asked by the patient on 19 December 1619 at 10:00
RN by the breakīg of a peece was wounded & he on tuesday was sennet betwixt 7 30 ant m Decēb 7. ♂ h. 7. 30 ant m 1619 |faynteth & {swoundeth}| bleedeth mutch on fryday last at the vayne of the nowse
[Astrological Chart]
Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 213, f. 81v (bottom right part of page)
CASE53342: Decumbiture for John Michell (PERSON20313)
Question asked by the patient on 13 November 1621 at 13:30
RN 1 first in his neck 2 on his syde tormented him & drew his mouth asyde & tooke away his sences & memory l|&| did shake h{im} novēb. 10 ♄ hor 3 p m 162i1
[Astrological Chart]
Notes:
1 ‘paralysis’ in chart
Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 231, f. 137v (bottom, bottom left, and bottom right parts of page)
CASE55428: Decumbiture for John Odell (PERSON55722)
Question asked by the patient on 23 December 1622 at 11:00
RN Decēb 22. ☉ h. 2. 40|5| p m 1622 swounded & fomed & his mouth Drawen backward. & at night had another fit & this swounded 4 tymes yesterd daye
[Astrological Chart]
Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 222, f. 142v (bottom right part of page)
CASE55533: Decumbiture for Mrs Mary Thorne (PERSON20945)
Question asked by the patient on 25 January 1623 at 10:00
RN was so sick on tuesday h. 9 ant m 1623 so stopt & swelled about her chest yt they thought she would die |5 child. youngest 7. y|
[Astrological Chart]
Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 222, f. 161v (bottom left part of page)
CASE58566: Decumbiture for Alexander Johnson (PERSON52576)
Question asked by the patient on 29 May 1624 at 16:30
RN may 24 \20/ ♃ h 4 \3. 45/ p m. 1624 brused wth a horse & spit blood on the right syde1
[Astrological Chart]
Notes:
1 ‘brused wth a horse’ in chart
Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 413, f. 207r (upper right part of page)
CASE62873: Decumbiture for Agnes [Anne] West (PERSON61455)
Question asked by the patient on 5 October 1626 at 10:30
RN An West \of Olny/ suddenly taken sept 24: ☉ h. 6. 30 p m. 1626. /francis Gaudorne & his sister susp. Katherin Chardge now Sterling would fome at her mouth wth strang f{its} of {weake} {illeg}\
[Astrological Chart]
Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 224, f. 304r (middle left part of page)
CASE69098: Decumbiture for Martin Trote (PERSON60490)
Question asked by the patient on 6 August 1629 at 15:00
RN first of all taken in his bed wth a great heavynes in his head Aug 3. ☾ h. 7 ant m 1629
[Partial Astrological Chart]
first taken wth an aguish fit
[Astrological Chart]
Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 406, f. 115Av (upper right part of page)
CASE71106: Decumbiture for Joan [Joanna] Bradbury (PERSON44643)
Question asked by the patient between 16 December 1630 at 13:20 and 17 December 1630 at 09:20
RN Ioane Bradbery of great Horwood 42 y taken strangly in her right hucklebone wth great ach about thigh & share pulling her in peeces cānot stand vppon it nothing to be sene taken Octob. 3. ☉ h. 5. 20 p m 1630
[Astrological Chart]
Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 232, p. 21 (bottom left, and bottom right parts of page)