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CASE55849: Horary consultation concerning Mr Skinner (PERSON58865) and Mr Edward Hurst [Goodman Hurst] (PERSON31990)

Question asked by Mr Skinner (PERSON58865) on 24 March 1623 at 15:29

RN Mr Skynner an Attorney of Hitching 55 y for his neighb Mr Hust & also for his owne disease wch is a shaking palsy not benūmed & mutch troubled wth the wynd Cholick |wheathr bath good.| body drye cōpl melanch.

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 218, f. 33r (bottom left part of page)

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CASE55556: Horary consultation concerning Thomas Morgan (PERSON20347)

Question asked by Anonymous (PERSON39602) on 28 January 1623 at 11:00

RN Thom. Morg. 21. y. Ian: 28. . h. 11. ant m. 1623. simple & cānot sell any thing and groweth more foolish & simple each other daye. & quaketh.

feareth he is ill handled.

Ione Pearson, Marg Bagley Goody Bates & her husb. hurt there pigs & goody Estoll

Transcribed entry from MS Ashmole 222, f. 164r (bottom right part of page)

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CASE16182: Horary consultation concerning Richard Feltes (PERSON11690)

Question asked by Feltes (PERSON11689) on 18 June 1604 at 10:45

GJ Richard Felt of Steventon 2 y. Iune 18 ho. 10 45 a m. 1604 vide Maij 9. cannot go nor vnderstand. Vng. Hyrund. j to annoynt the nape of the necke and that side wch he hath no vse of. pater filio

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 207, f. 198r (upper right part of page)

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CASE62481: Horary consultation concerning Thomas Peacock [the younger] (PERSON56372)

Question asked by Peacock (PERSON56364) on 29 May 1626 at 13:00

RN Thomas Peacock 11. y of Brampton. may 29. h: 1. p m. 1626 /pater filio wheathr {i}{ll} {sic} ill words have done him hare {sic}\

[Astrological Chart]

wheathr ill words have done him harme

a poor mā Rich Hūbersone & his wife more suspected it |he| was demāded to pay his rent to the Hoggard & he sayd he had it not /then Thomas Peacock the boys father syd {sic} yt he must pay it & sinc his son fell ill\ & his boy prsently fell lame.

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 224, f. 227v (upper left part of page)

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CASE53342: Decumbiture for John Michell (PERSON20313)

Question asked by the patient on 13 November 1621 at 13:30

RN 1 first in his neck 2 on his syde tormented him & drew his mouth asyde & tooke away his sences & memory l|&| did shake h{im} novēb. 10 hor 3 p m 162i1

[Astrological Chart]

Notes:

1 ‘paralysis’ in chart

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 231, f. 137v (bottom, bottom left, and bottom right parts of page)

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CASE66020: Horary consultation concerning James Stevens (PERSON59564)

Question asked by Anonymous (PERSON40658) on 7 May 1628 at 12:25

RN Iames Steaphens /7 y may 7. h. 12. 25 p m 1628\ of Shellingford natus the 17. of Sept 1622 at betwixt h 7. 30 p m. 1628 {sic} \light headed/ sent to me/ \hath no vse of his lims/ roareth every night

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 405, f. 19r (bottom right, and upper left parts of page)

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CASE51832: Horary consultation concerning Richard Carter (PERSON45659)

Question asked by Carter (PERSON45629) on 6 December 1620 at 15:00

RN Richard Carter. of Lillye 30 y in love Decēb: 6. h. 3. p. m. 1620 |sine consensu| /Widow Pydle is tempted yt he cānot pray by fits well quaketh cānot sleep\

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 233, f. 17r (upper right part of page)

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CASE53724: Horary consultation concerning Thomas Travell (PERSON36183)

Question asked by the patient on 18 March 1622 at 15:15

RN Th. Travell of Hanslop 14. next palme sonday |but borne a weeke before/ at night| was suddenly taken about a fortnight sinc yesterday \this morning/ felt a shaking in his bed & will turne his eys. & about 7 y. sinc {illeg} {sic} had lost his speach & senses & could not stand nor goe. ever wagling & rolling vp & down his eyes & mouth but now hath his sences fect. & now begȳning to be as heretofore march 18 h. 3. 15 p m. 1622

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 223, f. 26v (upper right part of page)

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CASE43799: Horary consultation concerning Mr Robert Burgess (PERSON28559)

Question asked by the patient on 29 August 1616 at 18:00

RN Robart Burges of Archester 52 y Aug. 29. h. 6 p m 16i61

[Astrological Chart]

master Burges

he sayth yt his sins be so great yt the cānot be for{given} & weepeth often. not ripe witted but mopish all {illeg} memory sences & wits & gifts taken from him 2 ye{res} he was a good pracher. he syth {sic} yt he hath syned agaynst the holy ghost. cryeth out agayst {sic} the temptat{ion} of sathan./

Notes:

1 ‘a dead palsye on ye left syde’ in chart

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 408, f. 158v (upper left, middle right, and bottom parts of page)

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CASE64506: Horary consultation concerning Mr Thomas Watts (PERSON61270)

Question asked by the patient on 23 August 1627 at 14:30

RN Mr Wats of Delabre of 40. y. Aug: 23. h. 2. 30 p m. 1627 arterica {sic} /Arthretica\ 20 y rūning vp1

[Astrological Chart]

Notes:

1Arthretica palsy a short cough 20 y reareth litle’ in chart

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 227, f. 197v (upper left part of page)

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CASE53391: Decumbiture for James Langwrite (PERSON53371)

Question asked by Anonymous (PERSON39360) on 28 November 1621 at 08:39

RN It tooke him first on sonday last wth a trēbling all over. & tooke away the vse of his lyms & now his sences & all 25 h. 9. 30 ant m sodaynly taken 162i /will take nothing nor speak cānot keepe his water\

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 231, f. 146r (upper right part of page)

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CASE60026: Horary consultation concerning Mr Lawrence Plummer (PERSON56875)

Question asked by the patient on 25 March 1625 at 11:00

RN Lawrenc Plūmer of layton 5|6|3 y March. 25 h. 11. ant m: 1625. |Is mutch pyned lame in his Cannell bone.|

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 217, f. 29v (upper left part of page)

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CASE76667: Horary consultation concerning Robert Summerley (PERSON59783)

Question asked by Anonymous (PERSON41796) on 13 March 1633 at 12:20

Robt Suerly of Doddington 2. y. March 13. . h. 12. 20. p m 1633

simple & mopish, flesh fallen from ye wast downeward, weak at Knees, & cannot stand. was Sick \at/ a qrter olde, & was neur well since. feareth some ill to\u/ngue. Gadwife Purny Susp.

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed entry from MS Ashmole 214, p. 371 (bottom left part of page)

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CASE68352: Horary consultation concerning Mr Cave (PERSON45779)

Question asked by the patient on 2 May 1629 at 16:30

RN Mr Cave of Leycester 4 38. y. May 2. h {sic} hor 4. 30 m {sic} p m 1629 |mayed {sic} 13 y 4 child. youngest 3. y.|

[Astrological Chart]

Mr Cave of Leycester 38. y. May 2. h {sic} hor 4. 30 p m 1629 had a palsy & the Iliaca Convulsions

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 407, ff. 174v-175r (f. 174v upper left, f. 174v bottom right, f. 175r upper left, and f. 175r upper right)

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CASE28871: Horary consultation concerning Edward [Edmond] Vescy (PERSON21048)

Question asked by the patient on 30 April 1605 at 10:00

RN Edward Fessy of Dunstable Houghton 23 y Apr. 30 h. 10. ant m 1605

stroken sodenly in his left arme & left leg & memory the vse of all taken away taken & stroken the 21 of Apr. |was let blood at begyning.|

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 216, f. 74v (upper right part of page)

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CASE70232: Horary consultation concerning Thomas Wright (PERSON62335)

Question asked by Anonymous (PERSON41103) on 14 March 1630 at 13:00

U[1628–30] Thomas write {illeg} was borne on \the next/ satterday at night after on michelmus was twelmounth, betweene a 11 or 12 at|or| i3, a Clock but cam to me at 1 of clock, ye 14th: of march 1630./

had a quiuorin & sounding on michelmus last & 3 Dayes the after ye small pox & then at shroftide & this last night had 3 fitts after the same manner a boue saide, being ye 13th Day complaines on the head & heauie & apt to sleepe

[Blank Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 194, p. 164 (upper, bottom left, and bottom right parts of page)

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CASE75554: Horary consultation concerning John Cooper (PERSON46918) and Alice Cooper (PERSON46954)

Question asked by Cooper (PERSON46909) on 22 September 1632 at 17:00

RN Iohn Coo of Emmerton 14. y. sept 22 h {sic} hor 5 p m 1632 |pater filio sine consensu| \his mother is lane {sic} by fits was onc speachles/

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 214, p. 32 (middle, bottom left, and bottom 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?f35-question-asked=Medical%3A%3ADiseases%20of%20the%20mind;f37-patient-sex=Male;f38-question-asked=Medical%3A%3ASymptoms%20%28specified%29%3A%3ALame%2C%20numb%20or%20paralysed, accessed 3 April 2025.