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CASE16725: Horary consultation concerning Amy Shelton [Ashby] (PERSON15745)

Question asked by the patient on 27 March 1602 at 08:00

RN G Amy Shilston of Castle Throppe 4{illeg}|6|. Martij 27. ♄ 8 ant m. 1602.

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 221, f. 16v (bottom right part of page)

Amy Shelton [Ashby] (PERSON15745) 

Medical  (Not specified in question)

Medical >Witchcraft and devil  (Fairy pinched)

Practitioner: Mr Richard Napier [Sandy] (PERSON5218) Judgment

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CASE11761: Horary consultation concerning Amy Shelton [Ashby] (PERSON15745)

Question asked by Old Goodman William Hodgkins (PERSON12828) on 26 October 1598 at 08:38

RN Amy Ashby of 40 yeres old of CastleThroppe yesterday morning laye speachles. sicke \a week/ Octob. 26 of Octob. die ♃. h. 8. 38. mi. 1598. |hodskins of litle Linford quærit.|

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 228, f. 44v (upper left part of page)

Old Goodman William Hodgkins (PERSON12828)Amy Shelton [Ashby] (PERSON15745) 

Medical >Illness (general) (Sickness)

Medical >Symptoms (specified)>Speech problems (Cannot speak)

Medical >Witchcraft and devil  (Witchcraft suffered (medical))

Practitioner: Mr Richard Napier [Sandy] (PERSON5218) Judgment Astrological Chart

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?f14-question-asked=Medical%3A%3AWitchcraft%20and%20devil;f16-question-asked=Medical;f17-participant=Amy%20Shelton%20%5BAshby%5D%20%28PERSON15745%29, accessed 29 January 2025.

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