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CASE61440: Horary consultation concerning Rudgely (PERSON58008)

Question asked by the patient on 30 December 1625 at 12:00

RN Mr Ambrose Rudlglys {sic} Daughter Marito Decēb 30 h. 12. 1625.

heareth yt her husb is mayed {sic} in Ireland |Desyrous of Drink.|

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 224, f. 64v (bottom left part of page)

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CASE67847: Diary entry

Written by Mr Richard Napier [Sandy] [Richard Napier [Senior]] (PERSON5218) between 6 March 1629 at 18:30 and 7 March 1629 at 09:20

RN T|M|y \H/ Lord sent to know how it is wth me & to hearing yt I was dead march. 6. h. 6. 30 p. m. 1629

[Astrological Chart]

ny {sic} Lord tooke a purg feb 19. & it hath wroght very mtch {sic}

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 407, f. 77r (upper left part of page)

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CASE53641: Horary consultation concerning Goody Elizabeth Shephard (PERSON58597)

Question asked by the patient on 4 March 1622 at 13:00

RN Elis Shephead of Redburne. 42 y march. 4 h. 1. p m 1621|2|

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 223, f. 12v (upper right part of page)

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CASE57935: Horary consultation concerning Mrs Joan [Joanna] Prescot (PERSON57057)

Question asked by the patient on 18 March 1624 at 17:30

RN Mres Prescet wheathr she should goe to Anne Kendall susp. lying on her death bed march. 18. h. 5.2|3|0 p m. 1624 |in novil:|

[Astrological Chart]

would know wheathr her sone came & tooke my consayle delivered her letter. & what physick she should take./

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 413, f. 113r (upper left part of page)

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CASE24370: Horary consultation concerning Valentine Butler (PERSON28619)

Question asked by the patient on 17 March 1615 at 10:00

RN Valentyne Butler of Blakesley. 20 a batcheler. march: 17: h. 10 ant m. 1615.

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 237, f. 171v (upper left, and bottom right parts of page)

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CASE69839: Nativity for Sir Sanders Duncombe [Mr Sanders Duncombe] (PERSON22981)

Question asked by the patient on 14 December 1629 at 12:20

RN the more babee

If feb 13. h 11. 30 ant m natus 1582 then die {sic} die . Corp of a sang cōp

[Astrological Chart]

Sr Sanders Ducōb \47. y./ natus feb 13 h 15 21. his mother dyed when he was but 4 {illeg} \7/ yeres 5 or 6 y after her death vnwares leaping leaped into a well & was like to be drownd & 2 or 3 y wth his younger brothr sliding on the Ice fell into the water but wthout harme

20 y old travelled into franc & stayed 3 quarter of a yere & retured {sic} at the Death of his fathr being 21 y

Then living on yere in England he traveled into Italy wch beng {sic} about a yere there it was his hap riding on a mule to fall backward wth his mule also

then some few yeres after became servant to k Iames & then after to k Char The miklemas before the k went in to Scotland was sick of a dangerus burning feever then vppō the death of a frind fell into a weeping passion & thenc into extrene {sic} melanc |Write on monday next|

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 194, p. 10, p. 9, p. 10 (p. 10 upper right, p. 9 bottom left, and p. 10 bottom right)

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CASE56144: Horary consultation concerning Elizabeth Eady (PERSON48246)

Question asked by the patient on 26 April 1623 at 16:00

RN Elis: Yeady of Ringsteede 53 Ap 26 h {sic} hor. 4. p m 1623.

feareth an ill spirit an old womā goody Taylour went away in choler

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 218, f. 74r (bottom left part of page)

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CASE58458: Horary consultation concerning Mrs Joan [Joanna] Prescot (PERSON57057)

Question asked by the patient on 17 May 1624 at 13:30

RN Mres Pescot sent a letter to me touching certen ptyes susp to doe her hane {sic} May 17 h. 1. 30 p m. 1624

Mres Prescot was wth goody Mres Kendall who did excuse her selfe &|b|efore she dyed & did put it on her daughter in law that mayed {sic} her sonne called Ellenor Cooke now wife of francis Typsley confessed yt her daughter sent for a mā to cure her mischiefe but they did not fourme it. still is tormented almost in all t of her bodye yet not sicke so yt she is afrayd yt all her adversayes {sic} are not rooted out. this \last/ womā hath a Daughter yt was wth the old womā before she dyed called Anne Typsley. always tormented at hart feareth a cōsūption & craveth my consayle & helpe vnder god.

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 413, ff. 192v-193r (f. 192v bottom left, and f. 193r bottom left)

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CASE79174: Horary consultation concerning Mrs Eleanor Aylet [Goody Aylet] (PERSON43142) and Aylet (PERSON43139) and Mr John Aylet (PERSON43137)

Question asked by Mrs Eleanor Aylet [Goody Aylet] (PERSON43142) on 7 October 1634 at 09:45

SRN Mrs. Eloner Aylett of Magdalen Laver. |for her selfe & her child./.|

October. 7. . h. 9. 45. a. m. 1634. /she sent hither ye 22th of septembr\

[Astrological Chart]

There was a match propounded her for her daughter & it brake of agayne. now there is another oferd & desires to know the issue whether it will be good to hearken to it or noe.

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 412, f. 157r (upper left, and bottom right parts of page)

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CASE46520: Horary consultation concerning Mrs Susan Pedder (PERSON24871) and Mr Pedder (PERSON34163)

Question asked by Mrs Susan Pedder (PERSON24871) on 30 April 1618 at 11:30

RN Mres Podder \the younger/ of Potters Perry 30|3| y Ap 30 h 11. 30 p m {sic} 1618.

hath not had the right course of her body these 3 yers.

feareth a cōsumption |& what is good to kepe her frō it|

vyyn {sic} very good.

would have a purge for her selfe & her husb. who feareth his father disease careth not for meate is Iealous of his wife being very honest & chast. & is sometyes {sic} lunatick & mad 4 y. & a halfe every 3 or 4 days.

he thincketh yt he is bewitched wth on a womā yt gave his mother physick./

& Mr Pedders w{atr} Ap 30 h.

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 201, f. 79v (upper left, and upper 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?f26-question-asked=Medical%3A%3ATreatment;f28-querent-is-asking-about=Self;f29-question-asked=Personal%20affairs%3A%3APersonal%20relations, accessed 15 February 2025.