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CASE37805: Horary consultation concerning Mr Adrian Fortescue (PERSON19645) and Mrs Mary Fortescue (PERSON30516) and Mr William Fortescue (PERSON30513)

Question asked by Lady Grace Fortescue [Grace Manners] (PERSON19647) on 3 April 1611 between 15:00 and 16:00

GJ Mr Adrian Fortescue and mrs Mary Fortescue have taken thrice of their physicke and wrought well wth them, the gentlewoman sicke the first taking, and well since, her stomack better, but her head as it was

Mr Adrian sicke wth his physicke on monday last and tooke none since he sleepes not well, is growen weake and his waxen kernells remayne. / my Lady think that if he continue so it will bring him to a consumption She desyres to have some course for mr willm Fortescue 10 y. wch hath also an Itche. Desyres to be satisfyed how this Itche comes whether by overheating the bloud wth violent exercise. & whether they shall continue the rest of the physike.

Transcribed entry from MS Ashmole 200, f. 52v (bottom right part of page)

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CASE12639: Horary consultation concerning Joan Barnwell (PERSON9496) and Anne Dennet (PERSON11253) and Robert Dennet (PERSON11250)

Question asked by Joan Barnwell (PERSON9496) on 4 September 1599 at 11:30

RN Ione Barnwell of husb. Crowlye 26 y. 3 weekes married. but was ill ever since Christmas & was wont to bleede at the nose \& mouth/ mutch looketh ill & hath a drye cough & shaketh her very mutch. her watr of a very good colour. shortwinded.

An Dennet. 3. y: her watr is hie coloured hath motes & leeke cobwebs.

Robart Dennet. 2 yeres hath a reasonab. water but hath some scales.

Septemb. 4. die h. 11. 30. ant m. 1599.

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 228, f. 193v (upper left part of page)

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CASE10693: Horary consultation concerning Agnes [Anne] Boddington (PERSON9840) and Edward Boddington (PERSON9833)

Question asked by Margaret Boddington (PERSON9842) on 27 May 1600 at 13:15

RN Agys Boodington 5 y. Edward 3 y. May 27 for there head & backe.

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 202, f. 86r (bottom left part of page)

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CASE12235: Horary consultation concerning Richard Lingard (PERSON13722)

Question asked by Lingard (PERSON13720), Lingard (PERSON13723) and Anonymous (PERSON17678) on 17 April 1599 at 14:35

RN Richard Lingard this a yere & halfe old. troubled wth an ague & wth the wormes. & leekely to have the iandes the child is weaned sent to me by there sister. the fathr & the mothr boath Apr. 17. die h. 2. 30|5| p m. 1599. of Simpson a great cold.

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 228, f. 125r (upper right part of page)

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CASE11853: Horary consultation concerning John [Joan] Malins (PERSON13880)

Question asked by Goody Joan Malins (PERSON13903) on 7 December 1598 at 15:30

RN Iohn Malins a yere & a quarter lacking a fortnight as it were pined in all her lims & bodye hed a poer bare creature. cannot sleepe not at any time in a moneth or fortnight but crye and Drinke mater adduxit se{cū} filiolā veretr ne sit maleficio vl veneficio afflictus. Decēb. 7. die hor. 3. 30. mi. 1598 very short winded.

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 228, f. 62v (upper right part of page)

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CASE12441: Horary consultation concerning Agnes Houghton (PERSON12911)

Question asked by Christopher Houghton (PERSON12900) and Alice Houghton (PERSON12913) on 12 May 1599 at 10:00

RN Agnes Hoton. 7 yeres on sct Valentines eve being sunday amisse in her lims & tounge & feete & hath no sence nor feeling therin at first shee did fall for 2 or 3 dizeases. now hath lost the senc & vse of her lims

[Astrological Chart]

She cryeth & mutch cōplayneth o {sic} May the 12. die . h. 10. ant m. 1599. pater et mater filia quærūt remediū. det igitur pater cælestis multis et magnis miserationib suis. at all times most cold. Costive.

Transcribed entry from MS Ashmole 228, f. 160r (upper right part of page)

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CASE15761: Horary consultation concerning Elizabeth Hayes (PERSON12687) and Hayes (PERSON12686)

Question asked by Elizabeth Hayes (PERSON12687) on 18 October 1603 at 09:50

GJ Elsabeth Hayes of Turvy 43 y Octob. 18 ho. 9. 50 a m. 1603. |wind in the stomacke.| A dry Cough An Itche and as it were a dry scurfe. Hath a Childe of 2 yeere old sucking on her, the childe very poore & will take nothing but the brest can neither go nor speake: borne the saturday fortnight after midsomer 1601 betwene 8 & 9 at night quiet in the day but very vnquiett all night. very cold, swelled in the body of late. the mother nunquā habuit menstrua since she had this child.

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 207, f. 150r (bottom left part of page)

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CASE13377: Horary consultation concerning Sanderson (PERSON15593)

Question asked by Sanderson (PERSON15595) on 10 January 1598 at 15:00

RN Mr Sanderson son of 7 yeres child mater filia {sic}/o\. 1598 Ian. 10. die hor. 3a post merid: he had a catarre in his lunges of his stomacke sometimes well & sometimes ill. not very sicke. 10 ab hinc dieb alterationē patietr

Transcribed entry from MS Ashmole 182, f. 84r (upper part of page)

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CASE71912: Decumbiture for an Anonymous (PERSON41300)

Question asked by Martha [Matthew] Jinkins (PERSON52561) on 27 April 1631 at 09:30

RN yest was month stretched out her hands cōpl of a lightnes in her head her eys {rune} & is sleepish

It tooke her sorely & had \a/ very greevous fit in the morning & so always in her bed h. 6. 30 in aurora martch 30  {sic} |march 29. | h. 6. 30 ant m 163i

Transcribed entry from MS Ashmole 232, p. 284 (bottom centre, bottom left, and bottom right parts of page)

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CASE19733: Horary consultation concerning Malins (PERSON13877)

Question asked by Goody Malins (PERSON13898) on 4 August 1601 at 07:15

RN Goody Malins sent vnto me for her child to come to see it & to pray for it for shee doubted it would dye Aug 4. hor. 7. 15. ant m 160i was full of the pockes in throate mouth & eyes1

[Astrological Chart]

Notes:

1 ‘pockes’ in chart

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 404, f. 169v (upper left, and bottom left parts of page)

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CASE44610: Horary consultation concerning Mrs Dorothy Jennings (PERSON32110)

Question asked by Mrs Alice Jennings [Spencer] (PERSON32108) on 3 April 1617 at 10:00

RN Mres Alice Iēmings of Offley. Sr Rich Spencers Daughtr for her child. of halfe a yere old {o}|D|\o/rothy Iennings Ap 3. h. 10 ant m. 1617

I receaved a letter

1 first pe{r}ydays left behind

2 how the pouder is to be vsed

3 wheathr Dragon water be to be vsed

4 the cap & w of pa & wheathr it may be left of.

5 to send her oliban’ ij sterny ß. /starteth in her sleepe\

wheathr to forbeare the sucke. suckes well sleepes well is sol{u}{s}

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 198, f. 111r (upper right part of page)

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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)

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CASE68314: Horary consultation concerning an Anonymous (PERSON58396)

Question asked by Mrs Margaret Sampford (PERSON58160) on 28 April 1629 at 21:00

RN my lords child a yeer & a halfe Apr 28 h. 9. p m 1629 a great loosenes

Margaret Sandford the mother of ye child had oyle of mace the loosenes still continueth wasteth & pyneth & craveth my Consayle agayne

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 407, f. 167r (upper left part of page)

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CASE73983: Horary consultation concerning Ersfeild (PERSON48588)

Question asked by Mrs Christian Napier [Young Lady Ersfeild] (PERSON33479) on 10 March 1632 at 07:00

RN my Neece & lady Earsfild for her daughter 3 y March. 10 h {sic} hor 7 ant m 1632

[Astrological Chart]

\grpes {sic} in the pit of her stomacke belly & sydes/ a very hard belly worms suspected1

Alooes mxed {sic} wth rub did her no good

nor a bag {illeg}|o|f wormewood steeped in vineg wth nutmeg applyed nor my oyntment of Savyn & wormewood

What I think of it & what may doe her good

Notes:

1 ‘her stomack very bad still a hard belly’ in chart

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 212, p. 496 (upper right part of page)

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CASE74768: Horary consultation concerning Mr John Matthews (PERSON54487)

Question asked by Mrs Matthews (PERSON33106) on 4 June 1632 at 10:38

RN Mres Mathew of Broden for her sone & hayre Mr Iohn mathew 8 yers old in cleare Lent the first sonday

subiect to melancholy he {illeg} sleepeth mutch & seemeth to be aguish subiect to melancholy \delighteth in nothing/ will t {sic} no stomack Aguish

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 416, p. 208 (upper right part of page)

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CASE41692: Horary consultation concerning Leate (PERSON32641)

Question asked by Mrs Joan Staper [Leate] (PERSON4503) on 5 August 1613 at 17:00

RN mres leate \of london/ craved my counsell for her head heavy Dūpish & sleepish & yet not the better for sleeping also was cupped & was never the better or very litle craveth my counsell for her child my goddaughter 5 y. old for her weakenes of lims. Aug 5 h. 5. p m. 1613.

sent me succet & a night cap of silke.

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Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 199, f. 180r (bottom left part of page)

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CASE10319: Horary consultation concerning Anne Thomson (PERSON16405)

Question asked by Anonymous (PERSON17499) on 12 April 1600 at 13:00

RN Itm’ An Tomson of Sherington 12d {sic} moneth old. Apr. 12 die . h. 1. p m. 1600

was here first on sunday last at 2 a clocke p m. 1600 troubled lame in on of the legs & on of the hands.

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 202, f. 37r (bottom left, and bottom right parts of page)

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CASE26510: Horary consultation concerning Young Mrs Frances Fortescue (PERSON19648)

Question asked by Lady Grace Fortescue [Grace Manners] (PERSON19647) on 27 December 1605 at 08:30

RN my lady fortiscue sent for me to come to her wench {sic} \Daughter/ who was mightely hoven in her belly face stomacke watr good francis fortiscue 9 y decēb 28 |27 | 1605.

they sent her watr in the morning h 8 30. ant m 1605.

Transcribed entry from MS Ashmole 215, f. 2r (bottom part of page)

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CASE37811: Horary consultation concerning William Freeman (PERSON30652) and Goody Maud Freeman (PERSON23317) and Lettice Freeman (PERSON30663) and Laura Burte (PERSON28591) and Anonymous (PERSON37498) and Elizabeth Burte (PERSON28588)

Question asked by William Freeman (PERSON30652), Goody Maud Freeman (PERSON23317), Lettice Freeman (PERSON30663), Anonymous (PERSON37498) and Elizabeth Burte (PERSON28588) on 4 April 1611 at 11:15

GJ willm Freeman of St eedes 44 y Apr: 4 {illeg}|| ho 11. 15 a m 1611.

Ad præcautionē pestis

Mould Freeman 60 y. eodē

Lettice freeman 11 y eodē

Lowre Byrt 7 y. eodē

Susan Byrt maid 16. y.

Elsabeth Byrt 35 y.

Transcribed entry from MS Ashmole 200, f. 53r (bottom right part of page)

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CASE10885: Horary consultation concerning Joan Dudley (PERSON11395) and Thomas Dudley (PERSON11386)

Question asked by Joan Dudley (PERSON11395) on 19 June 1600 at 14:00

RN Ione dudly 37. \for her head & stomacke eyes hoarse/ of Woulson & Thomas Dudley her sone of 6 y. Iune 19 die h. 2 p m. 1600

Thomas her child for an impostume in his stomack ready to stop his winde.

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 202, f. 114v (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?f2-judgment=No;f3-patient-age-band=000-009;f4-question-asked=Medical;f5-querent-sex=Female, accessed 28 March 2024.