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)
CASE54679: Decumbiture for Goody Elizabeth Cockayne (PERSON46446)
Question asked by Anonymous (PERSON39510) on 25 July 1622 at 11:11
RN She was taken strangly & sodenly but more yesterday then before Iuly 24. ☿ h 4|5| \5/ p m 1622. at sermō tȳe wth strāg convulsions taking away her speach. & vse of her armes & her belly Did burne & trēble & was & is ever mightely tormōted wth sore tēptatiōs when she is most willing to serve god1
[Astrological Chart]
Notes:
1 ‘tēptation’ in chart
Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 222, f. 8r (upper right part of page)
Anonymous (PERSON39510)Goody Elizabeth Cockayne (PERSON46446)
Medical >Witchcraft and devil (Strange affliction)
Medical >Symptoms (specified)>Fits and convulsions (Fits)
Medical >Symptoms (specified)>Speech problems (Cannot speak)
Medical >Parts of the body>Limbs and joints (Arms)
Medical >Parts of the body>Torso (Belly)
Medical >Symptoms (specified)>Burning and inflamed (Burning)
Medical >Symptoms (specified)>Lame, numb or paralysed (Trembling)
CASE48572: Decumbiture for William Woollet (PERSON37059)
Question asked by Anonymous (PERSON38584) on 29 April 1619 at 06:30
RN his brothr Will: fell sick last Monday h. 2. 30 p m 1619 6 y. hed ill. /face cheekes ey brused swelled chest\
[Astrological Chart]
Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 230, f. 342r (upper right part of page)
CASE61556: Decumbiture for Margaret Howlet (PERSON52018)
Question asked by Anonymous (PERSON40223) on 30 January 1626 at 08:00
RN troubled wth strang convulsions the wench the morow on \St/ Stephens Daye ☾ sep a ⚹ ♄ ap ☌ ♀. p △ ♂ h. 8 ant m 162{6}|5| & swounded at that tyme & hath bene troubled wth convulsiōs ever sinc
[Astrological Chart]
Marg Howlet taken wth strang fits of convulsions & wythering of her face & neck St {sic} Decēb. 26 ☾ h. 8 ant m 1625
[Astrological Chart]
Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 224, f. 82r-v (f. 82r bottom right, and f. 82v upper left)
CASE12649: Decumbiture for Isabel Franknill (PERSON11939)
Question asked by Franknill (PERSON11935) on 6 September 1599 at 11:20
RN Isbell franknill of drayton sloe. 61. taken speechles last friday as at candle light. as shee was dressing of a sore leg. sodenly taken nowe question is wheathr p. taken or besp Sept. August. 31. die ♀ h. 7. p m. 1599. cannot styrre her syd nor hand. a ded palsye.
[Astrological Chart]
Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 228, f. 195v (upper right part of page)
CASE13542: Decumbiture for Goody Elizabeth Miller [Richardson] (PERSON15311)
Question asked by Anonymous (PERSON17865) between 2 July 1598 and 16 July 1598
RN |1598.| Elsabeth Richardson tooke her sicknes the 2 of Iuly die ☉ h. intr 10 & 11. 10. 30 mi an m. 10. 15. shee hath an idle hed & speaketh foolishnes bereaved of her speach & of her wittes
[Astrological Chart]
Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 182, f. 213r (upper part of page)
CASE44616: Decumbiture for Mrs Agnes Rawlins [Clason] (PERSON34605)
Question asked by the patient on 4 April 1617 at 11:00
RN Agnys Rawlins of Stoake Hāmon 32 y Ap 4. ♀ h. 11. ant m 1617 not sick vryne indiff 3 fig. white Dregs. hart heavy |troubled in her mynd tempted hart heavy| sent Ap 4. ☾ sep a □ h {sic} ap ☌ ♂. yesterday about 6. \♃/ h. 6. p. m 1617
[Astrological Chart]
Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 198, f. 112v (upper left part of page)
CASE47404: Decumbiture for Mrs Chambers (PERSON28822)
Question asked by Mr Chambers (PERSON28818) on 29 August 1618 at 14:00
RN Mres Chābers of Watton 57 |57| y Aug. 26. ☿ h. 2 p m 1618. she then begā to cōplayne of a great payne in her left leg. frō the foote vp to the thighes & so hath cōtinued ever since waxing worse & worse in great extremity of payne rising higher & higher towards her body boath legs mutch swelled but the left most. hath a good stomack.
[Astrological Chart]
Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 230, f. 15r (upper 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)
CASE54678: Decumbiture for Goody Elizabeth Cockayne (PERSON46446)
Question asked by Anonymous (PERSON39510) on 25 July 1622 at 11:11
RN Elis Cocken of Newp. first strangly & sodenly taken on holy thursday 26 y Iuli may 30 ♃ h. 5 p m 1622 Iane Goodmā craved Drink & she gave it to this Iane & it prsently tooke her & sinc neaver well but mutch tēpted & troubled wth wynd1
[Astrological Chart]
Notes:
1 ‘mutch temptat. wynd melancholye’ in chart
Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 222, f. 8r (bottom left, and bottom centre parts 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)
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)
CASE65953: Decumbiture for Frederick King (PERSON52937)
Question asked by Anonymous (PERSON40650) on 29 April 1628 at 10:45
RN Ap 28 ☾ h. 10 ant m 1628 cōpl of a rūning vp & downe his legs arms eares & neck like a like a {sic} mouse & bite him by the prick the child in ye fit quake & stampe taken so yeste\r/day
[Astrological Chart]
Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 405, f. 6r (bottom right part 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)
CASE10312: Decumbiture for Mr Thomas Egerton (PERSON11500)
Question asked by Mr Thomas Egerton (PERSON11498) on 12 April 1600 at 09:30
RN Mr Edgerton for his sonne Thomas who fell sicke the 8 of Apr. die ♂ h 7 p m. 1600 stomacke & a great burning in his backe. head & stomacke right syde & belly
[Astrological Chart]
Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 202, f. 36r (bottom right part of page)
CASE13548: Decumbiture for Alice Rawlins (PERSON15178)
Question asked by William Rawlins (PERSON15172) between 10 July 1598 and 16 July 1598
RN |1598| Alce Rawling the daughtr of will Rawling fell sicke. about munday morning about Iulij 10 die ☾. 7. 30 ant {sic} she speaketh idlely & is bereaved of her speache & tounge boathe. & wites.
[Astrological Chart]
Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 182, f. 217r (upper part 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)
CASE45823: Decumbiture for Mrs Mary Boddington (PERSON28184)
Question asked by Anonymous (PERSON38318) on 5 December 1617 at 09:45
RN brought a bed vppō satterday last at twelfe at day tyme Novēb 29 h {sic} hor 11. 40 ant m 1617
[Astrological Chart]
Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 220, f. 134v (bottom left part of page)
CASE46642: Decumbiture for Robert Rider (PERSON34748)
Question asked by Anonymous (PERSON38394) on 16 May 1618 at 08:00
RN may 8 at fryday it tooke him about 12 in the night it first tooke him in his legs wth a shooting & sinc it rūneth vp into his hed making him to talke idlely a light head |Is grown starke mad.|
[Astrological Chart]
Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 201, f. 101v (upper left part of page)