CASE56056: Decumbiture for Mrs Elizabeth Jennings [Latch] (PERSON52517)
Question asked by Anonymous (PERSON39656) on 16 April 1623 at 15:00
RN Mres Iēnyngs strangly taken wth sore fits of convuls Ap 13. h. 12. p {sic} at mydnight 1623. /sine consensu\
[Astrological Chart]
Transcribed entry from MS Ashmole 218, f. 61v (upper left part of page)
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)
CASE12725: Horary consultation concerning an Anonymous (PERSON17726)
Question asked by the patient on 20 September 1599 between 11:45 and 12:15
RN at this time or about 12. 15 a Tealer of Kempso asked me wheatr he were not bespoken because he fell into a bleeding not thincking to live
Transcribed entry from MS Ashmole 228, f. 207r (bottom right part of page)
CASE10864: Horary consultation concerning Robert Hodges (PERSON12825)
Question asked by the patient on 17 June 1600 between 13:15 and 15:30
RN Robart Hodges of Greenefild 50 a marid man nevr had child. hath purchased a ground of 2 Hundred pound & the next yere following was troubled wth som ill thing or two as big as mice wthin his shoulders wch when he bruised he was wonderfully prucked {sic}
Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 202, f. 111r (bottom right, and bottom left parts of page)
CASE25255: Horary consultation concerning Agnes [Anne] Parkins (PERSON24784)
Question asked by the patient on 24 July 1610 at 10:25
RN {illeg}n Perkins of Tinswick 67 y Iuly 24. ♂ h. 10. 25 ant m 16i0
metuit venefic: & was brused. |E. Br{uci} vidua/|
Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 239, f. 104r (upper left part of page)
CASE32837: Nativity for William Morgan (PERSON14262)
Question asked by Anonymous (PERSON26559) between 20 February 1608 at 11:00 and 20 February 1608 at 12:00
RN Williā Morgan 6|7|. y the sonday aftr lamas daye. & then lamas day was on frydaye about evening prayer. about 5 p m 1601. 1606. \August: 3. ☉ h. 5. 2|3|0/ 1600 {sic} p m 1600 hath bleede sinc very mutch. waterish blood. ✝ Margery Bagly suspected./
Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 229, f. 37v (upper left part of page)
CASE34588: Horary consultation concerning Old Father John Bechino [Pinner] (PERSON9584)
Question asked by the patient on 19 December 1608 at 10:38
RN Old Bechino of Walton 70 y decēb. 19 ☾ h. 10. 38 ant m 1608. haunted cā take no rest
Transcribed entry from MS Ashmole 229, f. 274r (bottom left part of page)
CASE36450: Horary consultation concerning an Anonymous (PERSONGRP38)
Question asked by Mr Poulton (PERSON24947) on 30 August 1609 at 12:00
RN Mr Poulton |of london serv to old Mr Stas of london| sent to me in the behalfe of some yt by witchery had lost there sight Aug 30. ☿. h. 0 12. 16091
[Astrological Chart]
Notes:
1 ‘eysight lost by witchcraft’ in chart
Transcribed entry from MS Ashmole 203, f. 144r (bottom right part of page)
CASE77503: Decumbiture for Jane [Jean] Lightfoote (PERSON53731) and Lightfoote (PERSON53719) and Anonymous (PERSON41888)
Question asked by Mr Anthony Lightfoote (PERSON53721) on 7 June 1633 at 20:30
RN feb. 4 his wife his boy & his child strangly taken wth vomyting feb. 4. h. 3. p m 1633. /the gearle dyed about yt tyme\
[Astrological Chart]
Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 211, p. 205 (bottom left, and bottom centre parts of page)
CASE63278: Horary consultation concerning Knight (PERSON53131)
Question asked by Goody Knight (PERSON32388) on 22 February 1627 at 08:00
RN Goody Knights child 9 y feb. 22. ♃ h 8 ant m. 1627 |falling sick a burning feaver|
[Astrological Chart]
witch feared by her mother
Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 227, f. 3r (bottom right part of page)
CASE28009: Horary/Geomantic combined concerning John Jefferies (PERSON20019)
Question asked by the patient on 22 August 1606 at 14:50
GJ Iohn Ieffry of Tingewicke 34 y Aug. 22 ♀ ho. 2. 50 p. m. 1606 A swelling in his knee tooke him on monday was sevenight burnes and is very hott that he cannot sleepe the left knee he sweates as he lyes
[Astrological Chart]
metuit veneficiū
[Preliminary Geomantic Chart]
[Geomantic Chart]
Transcribed entry from MS Ashmole 215, f. 255r (bottom left, and upper right parts of page)
Medical >Symptoms (specified) >Bloating and swelling (Swelling)
Medical >Parts of the body>Limbs and joints (Knees)
Medical >Symptoms (specified) >Burning and inflamed (BurningHot)
Medical >Symptoms (specified) >Fevers, chills and sweating (Sweating)
Medical >Witchcraft and devil (Witchcraft suffered (medical))
CASE49331: Horary consultation concerning Henry Cuddington (PERSON29576)
Question asked by the patient between 26 July 1619 at 07:00 and 26 July 1619 at 09:00
RN Henry Cuddington 12 y Iuly paralitycall |vtrū wheathr {sic}| It was on ye left syde & now in ye right syde weake & cā scace {sic} speake. An foster Rookes wife of Calvrton a humour rūning pulling frō the feete vp to her head a great longe tyme./. An {sic}
Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 235, f. 118v (bottom right part of page)
Henry Cuddington (PERSON29576)
Medical >Symptoms (specified) >Lame, numb or paralysed (Palsy)
Medical >Parts of the body>Torso (Side(s))
Medical >Symptoms (specified) >Dizzy and/or faint (Weak)
Medical >Symptoms (specified) >Pain and pricking (Pulling)
Medical >Symptoms (specified) >Rheumy (Running)
Medical >Witchcraft and devil (Witchcraft suffered (medical))
CASE26159: Interrogation (Medical episode) concerning Agnes [Mary] [Anne] Gunter (PERSON19804)
Question asked by Mr Richard Napier [Sandy] [Richard Napier [Senior]] (PERSON5218) between 26 August 1605 at 19:45 and 2 September 1605 at 07:00
RN sept 2
Aug 26 ☾ hor {8} {sic} \8/ p m 1605 I sawe Mary Gūther in her fitte wheathr shee be bewitched or noe. |quæro meā {sic} spōte|
[Astrological Chart]
Transcribed entry from MS Ashmole 181, f. 109r (upper part of page)
CASE23019: Decumbiture for Catherine Morgan (PERSON54961)
Question asked by the patient on 23 September 1630 at 06:30
RN This strang fit of ye ague tooke Sept 22 ☿ h. 6. 40 p m 1630 |it tooke her yest in great extremity feb malig|
[Astrological Chart]
Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 238, f. 152v (upper right part of page)
CASE31296: Decumbiture for Mr Francis Shaxton (PERSON15740)
Question asked by the patient between 21 April 1607 at 19:50 and 22 April 1607 at 06:25
RN Mr Shaxton taken wth a strang fit Apr 21. ♂ h. 8. 25 p m {sic} \7. 50. p m/ 1607 /put it for 7. 50 p m 1607.\
[Astrological Chart]
Transcribed entry from MS Ashmole 193, f. 169r (bottom left part of page)
CASE40064: Horary consultation concerning an Anonymous (PERSON37755)
Question asked by Anonymous (PERSON37756) on 20 June 1612 at 17:50
RN a litle child of 13 wekes old taken yesterday & strangly. Iune 20 h {sic} hor 5. 4|5|0 p m 1612. like on yt had ye palsye
Transcribed entry from MS Ashmole 409, f. 117v (upper left part of page)
CASE47218: Horary consultation concerning Goody Joan Ekins (PERSON30122)
Question asked by the patient on 3 August 1618 at 12:40
RN Goody Ekins taken wth on of her old fits as on hanted wth some ill spirit August 3. ☾ h. 12. 40. p m 1618
[Astrological Chart]
Transcribed entry from MS Ashmole 201, f. 207r (upper right part of page)
CASE48608: Horary consultation concerning Alice Rodes (PERSON34869)
Question asked by the patient on 2 May 1619 at 13:30
RN Alce Rhodes of Bledloe beyond Alesbury 5 miles May 2. ☉ h. 1. 30 p m 1619 strangly handled ague water lame & thick.
[Astrological Chart]
Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 230, f. 349r (upper right part of page)
CASE57287: Horary consultation concerning John Raunt (PERSON57320)
Question asked by Mr Pue (PERSON57138) on 16 October 1623 at 18:00
RN Mr Pow my L. Purbecks serv: for his frinds child octob 16 ♃ h. 6 p m 1623
The child borne a yere old. Convuls.
Iohn Rainte was borne miklemas was twelfmonth on miklemas Day last was twelfmonth h 4 p m. 1622 strangly handled
Iohn Raunt of London a yere old last miklemas troubled wth convulsi{ons} octob 16 ♃ h. 6 p m 1{623}
Mr Pue my lord Purbe{ecks} serv: for this child
[Astrological Chart]
Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 413, f. 6Av, f. 7v (f. 6Av upper left, and f. 7v upper right)
CASE65262: Decumbiture for Emmanuel Scrope [First Earl of Sunderland, Lord President of York] [Lord Scrope] (PERSON58391)
Question asked by the patient between 28 January 1628 at 13:39 and 29 January 1628 at 09:20
RN My Lord prs sorely griped Ian 29|8| ♂ \☾/ h. 9. 20 \13. p 13. p m/ ant m {sic} 1628 strangly handled & had may {sic} good stooles on after another
[Astrological Chart]
Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 410, f. 78v (upper left part of page)