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CASE48199: Horary consultation concerning Mrs Alice Cuts (PERSON29615)

Question asked by the patient on 8 February 1619 at 11:00

RN Mres \Alce/ Cuts of london now wth Doctor Hughes |63 y| feb 8 h|| h. 11 ant m 1619.1

[Astrological Chart]

Notes:

1 ‘Desp.’ in chart

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 230, f. 163v (upper left part of page)

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CASE32545: Horary consultation concerning Jane Brograve (PERSON22248)

Question asked by the patient on 11 January 1608 at 09:38

RN Iane Brograve of Wapnā 68|6| y Ian 11. h. 9. 38 ant m 1608 light headed & ready to dispayre

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 193, f. 338r (bottom left part of page)

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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)

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CASE78418: Horary consultation concerning Mary Bawe (PERSON43814)

Question asked by the patient on 8 October 1633 at 11:30

RN mary Bale \Bawe./ of wellinborough 38 y octob. 8 h 11. 30 ant m 1633. /hath 6 child. frighted ready to despare\

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 412, f. 1r (middle left part of page)

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CASE32616: Horary consultation concerning Rebecca Barber (PERSON21963)

Question asked by the patient on 21 January 1608 at 10:30

RN Rebecca Barber of luton 24 y Ian. 21. h. 10. 30 ant m. 1608.1

high coloured.

[Astrological Chart]

Notes:

1 ‘fearfull wavering despeareth.’ in chart

Transcribed entry from MS Ashmole 193, f. 346v (bottom right part of page)

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CASE53707: Horary consultation concerning Goody Mary Parker (PERSON56113)

Question asked by the patient on 15 March 1622 at 09:15

RN Mary Parker of Rawnson. 26 y March. 15. h. 9. 15. ant m 1622.1

[Astrological Chart]

Notes:

1 ‘mightely tēpted full of feare ready to despaire’ in chart

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 223, f. 24r (bottom left part of page)

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CASE31759: Horary consultation concerning Margery Turnam (PERSON25826)

Question asked by the patient on 23 June 1607 at 11:00

RN Margery Turnā of Hogston 28 y mayed {sic} 6 y. 4 child youngest 6|7| weekes old. Iune 23 h. 11. ant m. 1607 /tēpteth to despayre\1

[Astrological Chart]

Notes:

1 ‘mynd troubled. tempted to doe ill. & harme’ in chart

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 193, f. 230v (bottom right, and bottom left parts of page)

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CASE32676: Horary consultation concerning Mr Potkyn (PERSON24941)

Question asked by Margery Potkyn (PERSON14999) on 4 February 1606 at 10:15

RN I came to Mr Potkins of lilly by the how 62 y feb. 4. h. 10. 15 ant m. 1606 |vxor marito sine consensu./|12

[Astrological Chart]

Notes:

1 ‘frentick despayreth ready to murder him self’ in chart

2 ‘& beateth his bed {sic} against the bedsteede & sayth yt he hath given him selfe to the devill’ in the right margin

Transcribed entry from MS Ashmole 229, f. 10r (bottom left part of page)

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CASE53500: Horary consultation concerning Susan Fletcher (PERSON49091)

Question asked by the patient on 24 January 1622 at 11:15

RN Susā flatcher of Norton by Balduck 42 y Ian 24. h. 11. 15 ant m 1622.

troubled in mynd & desp of her salvat. by fits cānot sleepe/

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 231, f. 170v (upper left part of page)

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CASE48556: Horary consultation concerning Temperance Negoose (PERSON33544)

Question asked by the patient on 27 April 1619 at 09:39

RN Temperanc Negous \of Dunton in Bedfordsheere/ 30 y Ap 27 h. 9. 3{8} ant m 1619

thursd next a m{oneth} brought a bed & is full of mela{nch} despayring & off{ering} to drown her selfe was so a y{ere} sinc & mended {wth} yt I sent her gods name be p{raysed} for it

faynt & weake

cōpl of her belly {& a} gryping

Doubteth of gods g{race}

[Astrological Chart]

Temperanc Negous of Dunton by Bedford 30 y Ap 27 h. 9. 39 ant m 1619

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 230, ff. 338v-339r (f. 338v upper right, f. 338v bottom left, and f. 339r upper left)

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?f27-time-of-day=AM;f29-querent-sex=Female;f30-question-asked=Medical%3A%3ADiseases%20of%20the%20mind%3A%3ADespair, accessed 26 March 2025.