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CASE51685: Interrogation (Medical episode) concerning Sir Thomas Myddelton [the son] (PERSON33214)

Question asked by Lady Myddelton [Mary Sandy [Napier]] (PERSON25254) on 16 October 1620 at 07:00

RN my lady Mydleton her husb. water sine consensu octob. 16: ☾ h. 7. ant m 1620.

Sr Thomas taken wth a strang fit & passion of the splene & stone octob. 15. ☉ h. 10. \9. 30/ p m. 1620.1

[Astrological Chart]

Notes:

1 ‘stone fit & splene’ in chart

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 414, f. 205r (upper left part of page)

Lady Myddelton [Mary Sandy [Napier]] (PERSON25254)Sir Thomas Myddelton [the son] (PERSON33214)

Medical >Witchcraft and devil  (Strange affliction)

Medical >Symptoms (specified)>Fits and convulsions (Fits)

Medical >Parts of the body >Torso  (Spleen)

Medical >Illnesses (named)>Stone and strangury (Stone)

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

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CASE12475: Horary consultation concerning John Robinson [Riddy] (PERSON15387)

Question asked by Robinson (PERSON15398) on 17 May 1599 at 10:30

RN Iohn Robinson of Astwood very sick this monethe of 6 yeres cōplayneth of his harte very white & pale & leane growen wth it. Asc: may the 17 die ♃ h. 10. 30. ant m. 1599. mater filio. sine consensu |Elisabeth Burgo a maide to bespeake it. 6 {sic} of 60. kept of almes.|

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 228, f. 166r (upper left part of page)

Robinson (PERSON15398)John Robinson [Riddy] (PERSON15387)

Medical >Illness (general) (Sickness)

Medical >Parts of the body >Torso  (Heart)

Medical >Symptoms (specified)>Wasting (PaleLean)

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

Personal affairs>Personal relations (Witchcraft suspect)

Practitioner: Mr Richard Napier [Sandy] (PERSON5218) Judgment 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?f28-question-asked=Medical%3A%3AWitchcraft%20and%20devil;f29-patient-consent=Explicitly%20not%20given;f30-question-asked=Medical%3A%3AParts%20of%20the%20body%3A%3ATorso, accessed 24 March 2025.

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