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CASE44334: Horary consultation concerning Mrs Elizabeth Wilmar (PERSON21201)

Question asked by the patient on 24 February 1617 at 09:00

RN Mres Eliz. Wilmore of Stachden 40 y febr. 24. h. 9 ant m 1617 /backe syde belly & thighes\

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 198, f. 69r (upper right part of page)

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CASE66145: Horary consultation concerning Goody King (PERSON52975)

Question asked by the patient on 21 May 1628 at 09:50

RN Goody King of Creaton 48 y May 21. h. 9. 30 \50/ ant m1628

cōpl of her hips & thighes & belly ever sinc harvest last |her water is red|

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 405, f. 40r (upper left part of page)

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CASE75057: Horary consultation concerning John Johnson (PERSON52585)

Question asked by the patient on 11 July 1632 at 09:50

RN Iohn Ihounson 58 y Iuly 11. h. 9. 50 ant m 1632 /of Dodington by wellingborough\

shephead

a fortnight sinc was taken in his knee swelled & rūneth vp to his thighs & backe & cānot rise |a bad stomacke|1

[Astrological Chart]

Notes:

1 ‘back thighs hucklebone & knee cānot styrre nor rise nor helpe him’ in chart

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 416, p. 302 (upper right part of page)

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CASE21258: Horary consultation concerning Marian Web (PERSON16903)

Question asked by the patient on 12 July 1604 at 09:30

RN maryon web 20 y Iuly 12. . hor. 9. 30 ant m 1604.

faynt & feeble. stomacke. can not eate any thing

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 415, f. 107r (upper left part of page)

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CASE11889: Horary consultation concerning Ursula Thorpe (PERSON16425)

Question asked by Mr Michael Hipwell (PERSON12796) on 21 December 1598 at 09:15

RN vrsula Thorpe of Stony stratford keepeth the bull. hipwell vnkle vnto Thorpe 32 yeres old sick ever sinc mikelmas goeth abroade. Dece {sic} sent by Mr Olivr Barker. for his wife sister is her mothr in frendship & kindred Doubteth wheathr shee be bewitched & hath a canker in her tongue & tented shee hath an ill stomacke & spitteth putrifyed bloode. Decēbr. 2i. die . h. 9. 15. ant m. 1598.

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 228, f. 70r (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.

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Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 228, f. 103r (bottom left part of page)

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CASE64425: Horary consultation concerning Mrs Margaret Smith (PERSON35539)

Question asked by the patient on 10 August 1627 at 09:00

RN Margaret Smyth. of Broughton 43 y Aug. 10. . h. 9 ant m. 1627 |hath an ague every day sinc christmas|

strangly taken wth a rising at her hart likely to swound sa a knife & feareth to see a knife & trēbleth at it.

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 227, f. 185r (upper left part of page)

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CASE79151: Horary consultation concerning Sage (PERSON58113)

Question asked by the patient between 7 August 1634 at 13:30 and 11 August 1634 at 09:00

SRN Sage her husband eodē tempore for a great payne in his back feares those ill people.

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 412, f. 153v (bottom left part of page)

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CASE57783: Horary consultation concerning Mary Mustowe [Must] (PERSON55128)

Question asked by the patient on 1 March 1624 between 09:00 and 10:45

RN Mary Mustowe of fensam 25 y the monday before last miklemas at 4 in ye morning /a very Corp wench.\ troubled wth fits of ye mother after a sore maner as she & other suppose beworded yet she telleth me as long as she had her playster of Galbonū was well/

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 413, f. 89v (bottom left part of page)

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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)

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-question-asked=Medical%3A%3AWitchcraft%20and%20devil%3A%3AWitchcraft%20suffered%20%28medical%29;f3-question-asked=Medical%3A%3AParts%20of%20the%20body%3A%3ATorso;f4-time-of-day=AM%3A%3A09%3A00-09%3A59, accessed 26 January 2025.