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CASE12336: Horary consultation concerning Edward Stringer (PERSON16231)

Question asked by the patient on 27 April 1599 at 12:00

RN Edward Stringer 69 76 of a very good colour for the cholick stone & strangullion. 27 Apr. die h. 12. of Olny. before of chichly.

Transcribed entry from MS Ashmole 228, f. 142v (upper right part of page)

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CASE11906: Horary consultation concerning Richard Risely (PERSON15346)

Question asked by Risely (PERSON15343) and Risely (PERSON15348) on 29 December 1598 at 09:30

RN Rich. Risely of Willing 2 yeres old. the fortnight after Chr|E|sterday morning about 3 a clock morning troubled by fits. especially the 18 of Decēb. after noone it wull {sic} fall Downe & crye & tak hold of any thing. Richard Risely a very feare child & of a goodly cōplexion was borne 1597. the 10 of Aprill. die h. 3. ant m. 1597. came to me Decēb. 29 die – h. 9. 30. cū vxore et filiolo. borne at willing.

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed entry from MS Ashmole 228, f. 73r (upper left part of page)

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CASE12687: Horary consultation concerning Isabel Gravestock (PERSON12316)

Question asked by the patient on 11 September 1599 at 15:30

RN Isbell gravestock for the greene sicknes Sept 11 die h. 3. 30 p m. 1599.

Transcribed entry from MS Ashmole 228, f. 201v (bottom left part of page)

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CASE12864: Horary consultation concerning Elizabeth Lindly (PERSON13717)

Question asked by the patient on 29 November 1599 at 08:30

RN {sic} Elisabeth Lindly 60 yeres old falleth onc a weeke & knoweth not howe but falleth sine sensu. & so recovereth wthout any knowledg therof. novemb 29 die h. 8. 30 ant m. 1599.

Transcribed entry from MS Ashmole 228, f. 232r (bottom left part of page)

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CASE13537: Horary consultation concerning Goodman Thomas Reeve (PERSON15234)

Question asked by the patient on 14 July 1598 at 07:08

RN Thomas Rive sent to know wheather it were the iaundes or noe 1598 Iul. 14. die h. 7. 8 m.

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed entry from MS Ashmole 182, f. 210r (upper part of page)

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CASE11669: Horary consultation concerning William Roughead (PERSON15478)

Question asked by Mr Richard Napier [Sandy] [Richard Napier [Senior]] (PERSON5218) on 4 September 1598 at 07:35

RN my man will: Roughead spit blood wc he thincketh he tooke wth a bruise by carying my milk & overstrayning him selfe. at 7. 35. mi.

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed entry from MS Ashmole 228, f. 25r (bottom left part of page)

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CASE11685: Horary consultation concerning William Smith (PERSON15922)

Question asked by the patient on 13 September 1598 at 08:00

RN William Smithe \of haversham./ of 30 yeres maried vnmaried supposeth he hath taken a cold he now walketh vp & downe Sept 13 die h. 8. ant m. 1598.

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed entry from MS Ashmole 228, f. 28r (upper left part of page)

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CASE11957: Horary consultation concerning John Cole (PERSON10709)

Question asked by Mr Cole (PERSON10701) on 21 February 1599 at 07:30

RN Iohn Coles of 22 yeres old sick of a tertian ague water high Coloured fathr {sic} sent wheathr it were good to let him blood this 2i of feb. 1599. die  {sic}. 7. 30

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed entry from MS Ashmole 228, f. 80v (upper right part of page)

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CASE12180: Horary consultation concerning Mrs Agnes Uvedale [Croutch] (PERSON16663)

Question asked by the patient on 2 April 1599 at 07:15

RN Mres Vuedale what is good to drive away her ague. wheathr good to let her bloode. water hie coloured. M Apr: 2. die . h. 7. 15. 1599.

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed entry from MS Ashmole 228, f. 118r (upper left part of page)

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CASE12290: Horary consultation concerning Thomas Impy (PERSON13103)

Question asked by the patient on 24 April 1599 at 11:15

RN Thomas Impy of Marst{illeg}|on|e Morten 43 for a lame hand swelled yt he can lift it vp to his hed. 24 of Apr. {di}e h. 11. 15. ant m. 1599. {taken} wth a surfet of wet & cold. yt fell into his armes.

Transcribed entry from MS Ashmole 228, f. 136r (upper left part of page)

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CASE13137: Decumbiture for Susan Blundell (PERSON9824)

Question asked by Anonymous (PERSON17774) between 12 February 1597 and 6 September 1597

RN Susan Blundell 1597. feb. 12 die . h in med. noct. 12. 30. m. was evilly handled of her disease. & it first toke her. in the night ready to choake her. /she became as a naturall chaingling. before she dyed & died in yt sort\1

[Astrological Chart]

Notes:

1 ‘the falling sicknes of wch she dyed’ in chart

Transcribed entry from MS Ashmole 175, f. 33v (upper part of page)

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CASE12143: Horary consultation concerning Agnes Lea (PERSON13644)

Question asked by the patient on 26 March 1599 between 10:50 and 12:00

RN Agnes lea 62. of lowton a hie coloured water & fits of an ague. hart sick. hath taken {sic} a great greefe. a widowe.

Transcribed entry from MS Ashmole 228, f. 112r (bottom right part of page)

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CASE13149: Horary consultation concerning Anthony Blake (PERSON9779)

Question asked by Mr Richard Napier [Sandy] [Richard Napier [Senior]] (PERSON5218) on 22 August 1597 at 15:30

RN 11597. Blage came & sente for me a {sic} {illeg} \to Mr Blundels house.// Aug die . h. 3a 45. mi \h 3. 30 m2/ post merid et venit apud nos h. 5. i8 m. Aug. 22. h. |he mised Mr B to heale his Daughter.3|

The stone in the bladder.4

[Astrological Chart]

Notes:

1 ‘Blake.’ in the left margin

2 ‘h 3a 30 m’ in the left margin

3 ‘a mocking knave’ in the left margin

4quæro qualis sit’ in chart

Transcribed entry from MS Ashmole 175, f. 42r (upper part of page)

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CASE12121: Horary consultation concerning Margaret Booker (PERSON9855)

Question asked by the patient on 22 March 1599 at 09:30

RN Margaret Booker of Newport. 20. amisse this fortnight arm left leeke an ache. vexeth & troubleth all her bodye 22 of March. die . h. 9. 30. ant m. {in}|ca|nnot rest tr maketh her Crye. a hie coloured water & red her courses stopt this quartr never had thē kindly. leeke an ague

Transcribed entry from MS Ashmole 228, f. 108v (bottom left part of page)

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CASE13354: Nativity for Ed Jones (PERSON13255)

Question asked by the patient between 8 March 1597 and 16 July 1598

RN Ed. Iones. natus 1576 Aug. 23. die h. 7 1a. 35. 3 yeres after planet stroken & taken lame in in {sic} his shoulder. & leg. poultfooted. a poer fellowe.

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed entry from MS Ashmole 182, f. 68r (upper part of page)

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CASE11621: Horary consultation concerning Agnes Astill [Miller] (PERSON9294) and Anonymous (PERSON8877) and Anonymous (PERSON8940)

Question asked by Agnes Astill [Miller] (PERSON9294), Anonymous (PERSON8877) and Anonymous (PERSON8940) on 12 August 1598 at 08:34

RN Agnes Miller of 45. yeres old hath had an old Desier Disease as shee thincketh of the winde cholick ready to stop there winde lieth at her harte this every daye of the weeke. the rūning. of the reanes

[Astrological Chart]

August the 12 die h. post m ant m. 8. 34 mi for Agnes Miller who hath bene troubled wth the rūning of her reanes & so also her husb: for the space of this 4 yeares & her mother wth the winde cholick. whiles she had her termes shee was a sound woman but sinc never having thē shee hath bene mutch distempered wth the rūning of the reanes

Transcribed entry from MS Ashmole 228, f. 14r (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?f10-question-asked=Medical%3A%3AIllnesses%20%28named%29;f8-date=1590-1599;f9-extent-of-transcription=Whole%20entry, accessed 1 April 2025.