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CASE13348: Horary consultation concerning Goody Parkins [Cowly] (PERSON14687)

Question asked by the patient on 6 May 1597 at 16:45

RN Perkins a woman crased haunted by a sprite venit ad me quærens morbum 1597 maij 6. die hora 5. 15. m \hora {sic}/ 4: 45. |wth love crased|

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed entry from MS Ashmole 182, f. 61v (upper part of page)

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CASE13536: Horary consultation concerning Goody Elizabeth Miller [Richardson] (PERSON15311)

Question asked by Goodman Thomas Richardson (PERSON15301) on 14 July 1598 at 07:45

RN Millers 1598 Iul. 14. die h. 7. mi. 12. 45 m. Thomas Richardson for his wife. to know what wilbe her end. about 30 yeres old. shee suspecteth shee hath bene bewitched light headed & talketh mutch of the devill shee can not speake sometimes in her fit letteth out her excrement.

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 182, f. 209v (upper part of page)

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CASE12389: Horary consultation concerning Joan Ring (PERSON15337)

Question asked by the patient on 5 May 1599 at 14:15

RN Ione Ring Morten \Ringe/ of Cranfeild Disquieted in minde. came her selfe to me this 5 of may die h. 2. 15. mi. p m. 1599. amis ever sinc miklemas. 36 yeres. hath buried her {sic} first husb. & child

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 228, f. 151v (upper right part of page)

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CASE11606: Horary consultation concerning Goody Joan Honour (PERSON12892)

Question asked by the patient on 9 August 1598 at 05:30

RN Ihone honour enquireth what is good for her disease of 36 yeres Aug. 9. die h. 5. 30. ant m. very fearfull

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 228, f. 11v (upper left, and bottom left parts of page)

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CASE12317: Horary consultation concerning William Rogers (PERSON15428)

Question asked by the patient on 25 April 1599 at 18:00

RN Will. Rogars of Stock hāmon. 20 yeres old. troubled in minde the cannot be rid of the devill always cōmeth to his minde & cannot be shifted of him. Aprill 25. h. 6. p m. 1599. this 2 yeres.

[Partial Astrological Chart]

Transcribed entry from MS Ashmole 228, f. 139v (bottom left part of page)

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CASE12171: Horary consultation concerning Frances Thomson (PERSON16408)

Question asked by Thomson (PERSON16388) on 30 March 1599 at 12:30

RN Frauncis Tomson by her husband of lowton 30 of March. die h. 12 30. mi. morbo. 1599 caput phantastijs melancholicis laborat. timore spiritu’. 42. yeres. /muscam metuit et {muo}rē\

Transcribed entry from MS Ashmole 228, f. 116v (upper right part of page)

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CASE12256: Horary consultation concerning Jane Cucknoll (PERSON11111)

Question asked by the patient on 20 April 1599 at 19:00

RN Iane Cuknole of Torceter 28. ever sinc candlemas. lunaticke came in her owne son to me this 20 of Apr. at 7 p m 1599. \die ./ lunatick & sometimes dombe h|w|ill not cōverse wth her husb. hateth her children/

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 228, f. 129v (upper left part of page)

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CASE12907: Horary consultation concerning Goodwife Catherine Wells (PERSON16926)

Question asked by the patient on 20 December 1599 at 09:30

RN Catherine Wels of Buckingā 23. vexed as shee sayth wth a spirite & cann durst not to rid least seeing the water shee should fall into it. sent vnto me. Decēb. 20. die h. 9. 30 ant m. 1599. troubled this 3. yeres. married & hath a child a yeare old.

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 228, f. 240v (upper right part of page)

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CASE13258: Horary consultation concerning Goody Parkins [Cowly] (PERSON14687)

Question asked by the patient on 6 May 1597 at 18:05

RN Perkins a woman hau crased & d haunted by all leekelihood. |1597. 6 of may die . at 6 a clock post merid: 5 mi:| /h. 6. 5. p m.\

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 175, f. 115r (upper part of page)

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CASE11744: Decumbiture for Susan Blundell (PERSON9824)

Question asked by the patient between 11 October 1598 at 07:45 and 12 October 1598 at 08:30

RN Susan Blundell toke her fit by some foolish vision & sight at what time she laughed & sawe Goody Greene & goody Nichols flinging of trenchers & when it tooke her as they say shee cryed out vppon Goody Barnwell. the 13 of Novemb. die . h noctis circ 12 1596.

[Partial Astrological Chart]

Susan Blundell

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed entry from MS Ashmole 228, f. 42r (upper left, and upper right parts of page)

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CASE12320: Horary consultation concerning William Rogers (PERSON15428)

Question asked by the patient on 25 April 1599 at 18:00

RN Will. Rogars \of hellington. & {s}{illeg}{le} l{a}d/ of Stock Hamon 20 yeres old troubled wth fansies & his mind troubled wth the Devill this 2 or 3 yeres but now very mutch Ap. 25. die . h. 6. p m. 1599.1

[Astrological Chart]

Notes:

1 ‘tempted to hange him selfe.’ in chart

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 228, f. 140r (upper left part of page)

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CASE12083: Horary consultation concerning William Loveles (PERSON13804)

Question asked by the patient on 15 March 1599 at 09:00

RN Williā Lovely of Newport 60. greeped & tormented at the harte ready to make him selfe away & of his brest: the 15 of Martij die . h. 9 metuit venefic: 1599 hed & face swelleth.

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 228, f. 103r (bottom left 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?f17-question-asked=Medical%3A%3ADiseases%20of%20the%20mind;f18-date=1590-1599;f19-question-asked=Medical%3A%3AWitchcraft%20and%20devil, accessed 23 February 2025.