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CASE49216: Horary consultation concerning Mrs Mary Olive [Hore] (PERSON33796)

Question asked by the patient on 12 July 1619 at 11:00

RN Mary Olive \Hores sister/ of Askot 30 y Iuly 12. ☾ h. 11 ant m 1619: /a yere sinc mightely hoaven & swelled. \now very leane & sclender./\1

[Astrological Chart]

Notes:

1 ‘melancholy & apt to depsayre’ in chart

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 235, f. 93r (upper left, and bottom right parts of page)

Mrs Mary Olive [Hore] (PERSON33796)

Medical >Diseases of the mind  (Melancholy Despair )

Practitioner: Mr Richard Napier [Sandy] (PERSON5218) Treatment Judgment Astrological Chart

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CASE50564: Horary consultation concerning Alice Parrot (PERSON34057)

Question asked by the patient on 14 April 1620 at 13:30

RW Alice Parret of shitlington. y 28. d. ♀ h: 1. 30. p: m: Aprill. 14 1620. melancolica valde: desperans

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 213, f. 172v (upper right part of page)

Alice Parrot (PERSON34057)

Medical >Diseases of the mind  (Melancholy Despair )

Practitioner: Mr Richard Napier [Sandy] (PERSON5218) Treatment Astrological Chart

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CASE15753: Horary consultation concerning John Halfhead (PERSON12466)

Question asked by the patient on 17 October 1603 at 14:45

GJ Iohn Halfehead of Swallowfield 44 43 y. Octob. 17 ☾ ho 2. 45 p m. 16031

[Astrological Chart]

Notes:

1 ‘Despayring melancholye.’ in chart

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 207, f. 149v (upper left part of page)

John Halfhead (PERSON12466)

Medical >Diseases of the mind  (Despair Melancholy )

Medical >Witchcraft and devil (Witchcraft suffered (medical))

Personal affairs>Personal relations (Witchcraft suspect)

Practitioner: Mr Gerence James [Marks] (PERSON13172) Judgment Astrological Chart

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CASE73894: Horary consultation concerning Florence Billing (PERSON44170)

Question asked by Mr Valentine Morley (PERSON54974) on 28 February 1632 at 16:20

RN florenc Billin of Halston 3 miles beyond Northāpton Decēb 11. ☿ h. 5 p m 1594 but came to me feb. 28 ♂ h. 4. 20 p m. 1632. /Desp. of gods mercy.\ /Mr Morly a minister wrote in her behalfe.\1

[Astrological Chart]

Notes:

1 ‘melanch affected sinc Christmas tempted to despayre’ in chart

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 212, p. 470 (bottom left part of page)

Mr Valentine Morley (PERSON54974)Florence Billing (PERSON44170)

Medical >Diseases of the mind  (Religious doubtsMelancholy Despair )

Practitioner: Mr Richard Napier [Sandy] (PERSON5218) Treatment Judgment Outcome(s)Astrological Chart

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CASE49065: Horary consultation concerning Harris (PERSON31404)

Question asked by Mr Thomas Marsh [March] [the elder] (PERSON4816) on 23 June 1619 at 08:40

RN my Cosen hee marsh. for Sr Arthur Harrys his Daughter of 17 or 18 y. Iune 22|3| ☿. h. 8. 40 ant m 1619 /strangly troubled wth melanch ready to desp & to make her selfe awey.\

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 235, f. 58v (upper right part of page)

Mr Thomas Marsh [March] [the elder] (PERSON4816)Harris (PERSON31404)

Medical >Witchcraft and devil (Strange affliction (passions))

Medical >Diseases of the mind  (TroubledMelancholy Despair Tempted and suicidal)

Practitioner: Mr Richard Napier [Sandy] (PERSON5218) Judgment Astrological Chart

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CASE76122: Horary consultation concerning Mr Robert Longueville (PERSON32776)

Question asked by the patient on 11 December 1632 at 15:00

TG {Mr} Robert Langfield 14 y {Decem}br. 11 ♂ h. 3. p m. 1632. {Mel}ancholia affectꝯ præter morem tristatur et de salute dubitare et desperare præsumit, jnitium morbi fuit die ♄ 8 Decembr ante viduum.

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 214, p. 208 (upper left part of page)

Mr Robert Longueville (PERSON32776)

Medical >Diseases of the mind  (Melancholy SadnessReligious doubtsDespair Morbus (passions))

Practitioner: Mr Theodoricus Gravius (PERSON38835) Treatment Astrological Chart

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?f23-question-asked=Medical%3A%3ADiseases%20of%20the%20mind%3A%3ADespair;f24-question-asked=Medical%3A%3ADiseases%20of%20the%20mind%3A%3AMelancholy, accessed 19 March 2025.

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