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CASE59716: Horary consultation concerning Timothy Briarton (PERSON44787)

Question asked by the patient on 27 January 1625 at 15:40

RN Tymothy Brereton of Alsbury 40 y Ian 27 h. 3 40 p m 1625

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 402, f. 153r (upper left part of page)

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CASE62630: Horary consultation concerning Sir James Evington (PERSON30260)

Question asked by the patient on 22 December 1626 at 16:45

RN Sr Iames \Evington/ sent hiswater 30 y Decēb 22 h. 5. p 4. 45 p m. 1626 /subiect to melanch\

[Astrological Chart]

Sr Iames Evington sent his water enquiring my Consayle for his spots & issue yt will not be stayd notwthstanding all the physick he hath taken Decēb 22 h. 5. p m 1626

Wheathr good to have an issue in his left arme

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 224, ff. 258v-259r (f. 258v upper right, and f. 259r upper left)

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CASE62721: Horary consultation concerning Young Lady Tyrrell [Mrs Elizabeth Tyrrell] (PERSON25845)

Question asked by the patient on 18 January 1627 at 13:00

RN The Lady Tyrrell of Thorneton. 56 y Ian 17|8| {sic} 18 h. 1. p m. 1627

[Astrological Chart]

craveth my Consayle for her rheme & cough teeth gone & wasted

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 224, f. 277r (upper right part of page)

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CASE53990: Horary consultation concerning an Anonymous (PERSON44270)

Question asked by Old Goody Blea (PERSON28134) on 25 April 1622 at 17:45

RN on of newp yt old goody Blea came for did spit blood came for my cōsell Ap 25 h. 5. 45 p m 16221

[Astrological Chart]

Notes:

1 ‘spitteth blood’ in chart

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 223, f. 71r (bottom right part of page)

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CASE68314: Horary consultation concerning an Anonymous (PERSON58396)

Question asked by Mrs Margaret Sampford (PERSON58160) on 28 April 1629 at 21:00

RN my lords child a yeer & a halfe Apr 28 h. 9. p m 1629 a great loosenes

Margaret Sandford the mother of ye child had oyle of mace the loosenes still continueth wasteth & pyneth & craveth my Consayle agayne

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 407, f. 167r (upper left part of page)

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CASE50684: Horary consultation concerning Jane Leate (PERSON24178)

Question asked by Mrs Joan Staper [Leate] (PERSON4503) on 20 April 1620 at 17:30

RN Mres Leate sent her {sic} \a letter in the behalfe of her/ daughter Iane who hath for this twelfemonthe bene troubled wth a swelling about her gr{y}|o|yne sometys appearing & sometyms not but gone first white & 2 months since burning red & hard almost as big as an egge

she layd to it a litle wax & butter & now & then a poultis of milke & a weddensday last was senet it broke about the 12 of Ap desyrous to have my counsell the 20th of Apr h. 5. 30 pm 1620 It is broken & did run & voyd filthy \yellow/ stuffe

Transcribed entry from MS Ashmole 414, f. 8r (bottom right part of page)

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CASE55195: Horary consultation concerning Henry Kent (PERSON32247)

Question asked by the patient on 28 October 1622 at 17:30

RN Henry kent the Sr Rich Spencers butler of Offly 34 y octob 28. h 5. 30 p m 1622 weake & fent

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 222, f. 100r (bottom right part of page)

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CASE63364: Horary consultation concerning Mrs Stap (PERSON59511)

Question asked by the patient on 10 March 1627 at 17:00

RN Mres Stop of Newport mother \the wife/ of Mr Stop the pracher brought a bed this Day sennet March 10 h {sic} hor 5 p m 1627 Aguish Costive full of wynd

craveth my Consayle

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 227, f. 16r (upper right part of page)

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CASE67682: Horary consultation concerning Mr Barnes (PERSON43550)

Question asked by Mr Barnes (PERSON43548) on 5 February 1629 at 18:00

RN Mr Barnes of London for his father Mr Barnes |now| Sheriffe of London 60 y feb: 5 h: 6 p m. 1629. /Sr Rob. incouraged him thervnto\

a dead palsye

some what amended by meas {sic} of Doctor Wilson

[Astrological Chart]

yet craveth my opinion

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 407, f. 44Av (upper left part of page)

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CASE54882: Horary consultation concerning Mr Richard Dyer (PERSON48232)

Question asked by the patient on 5 September 1622 at 16:15

RN Mr Rich. Dyer of Great Stawton Decē. 4. h. 11. 45 p {sic}. 1588. but came to me for my counsayle Sept 5 . h. 4. 15 p m. 1622.

a Smyth in London in cow lane on Hopkins opened the drūps of his ears & once in a yere & tooke out black coarns & then heard but sinc cometh agayne & is troubled wth a continuall n hissing & buzzing

vtrū ducet quā cupit

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed entry from MS Ashmole 222, f. 46r (bottom right part of page)

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CASE68313: Horary consultation concerning Emmanuel Scrope [First Earl of Sunderland, Lord President of York] [Lord Scrope] (PERSON58391)

Question asked by the patient on 28 April 1629 at 20:00

RN My Honourable Lord of Sunderland. 45 y Ap. 28: h. 8 p m. 1629.

[Astrological Chart]

my lords loosenes increaseth cōplayneth of his physition of a flat mountebancke craveth my consayle wheather he shall recoaver of his loosenes wch hath so sorely weakned him

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 407, f. 166v (upper left, and upper right parts of page)

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CASE64308: Horary consultation concerning Lady Mitton (PERSON54830) and Mrs Magdalen Napier [Mitton] [Sandy] (PERSON33485)

Question asked by Lady Mitton (PERSON54830) and Mrs Magdalen Napier [Mitton] [Sandy] (PERSON33485) on 20 July 1627 at 18:30 or at 19:40

RN Receaved a lettr the lady Mytton Iuly 20 h. 6 30 p m 1627 hath casted 3 weekes. would have a playster for the spleene

sent her things agaynst next fryday.

Mres mytton \my Cosen magd myt{ton}/ sent Iuly 20 h: 7 40 p m 1627

hath casteth 3 weekes Craveth my Consell & also a playst for ye spleene

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 227, f. 167r-v (f. 167r middle left, and f. 167v upper right)

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CASE66763: Horary consultation concerning Mr Clement (PERSON46338)

Question asked by the patient on 5 August 1628 at 12:00

RN Mr Clement a yorkesheer gentlemā a young mā strangly taken first with a b{ow}ing & now wth a hard wyndy bunch vnder the bending of his knees hard like a sp{asm}s yet heathy Aug 5 h. 12. 1628.

craved my consayle

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 405, f. 215v (bottom right part of page)

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CASE54687: Horary consultation concerning Young Lady Catherine Longueville [Mrs Catherine Carey] (PERSON13783)

Question asked by the patient on 26 July 1622 at 14:00

RN The Lady Longeville new come to Billen about on weddensday last sent h a letter to me Iuly 26 . h. 2. p m 1622

how her courses be broken downe & yt her hedach is nothing so bad as it was wont.

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed entry from MS Ashmole 222, f. 9v (upper left part of page)

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CASE55541: Horary consultation concerning Mrs Reeve [Warren] (PERSON57469)

Question asked by the patient on 25 January 1623 at 15:25

RN my Cosen Warren \Reeve/ sent me a letter Ian 25 h {sic} hor 3 \25/ p m 1623 last weeke voyded vp blood 3 tymes. to the quantity of halfe a pynt is very ill feaversh {sic} weake & feeble & cānot slepe

[Astrological Chart]

desyrous of some cordiall & of my advice

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 222, f. 162r (upper right part of page)

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CASE62545: Horary consultation concerning Mrs Anne Twisden (PERSON60639)

Question asked by the patient on 3 June 1626 at 20:30

RN The younger gentlewomā mrs \An/ T{illeg}|w|isdon sent me a lettr Mres An Twisden 20 y Iune 3 h {sic} hor 8. 30 p m 1626

at her stomack

would weare some playster for her backe yt had a good smell

afrayd to be let blood yet will she sayth henc forth if I will advise her therto.

would have some cōfortable thing to breake wynd for her stomack to digest her meate.

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 224, f. 238r (upper left part of page)

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CASE69897: Horary consultation concerning Mr Anthony King (PERSON52933)

Question asked by the patient on 31 December 1629 at 14:15

RN Mr Anthony King of Ashbee 22 y Decēb 31. h. 2. 15 p m 1629

[Astrological Chart]

sent me 2 couple of rabbots zonio & plovers.

had but 2 fits in ye day sinc midsomer last but every night hath had sore fits yt him selfe knoweth not of in his bed

keepeth his Issues q still

Desyrous to have salves to heale them. & very desyrous to come to at the spring to take physick Craveth my consayle in this busynes/ |a kind letter, godly & religious|

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 194, p. 34 (upper left, and upper right parts of page)

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CASE66410: Horary consultation concerning Mr John Evans (PERSON48613) and Anonymous (PERSON40698)

Question asked by Mr John Evans (PERSON48613) on 19 June 1628 at 18:00

RN {I}ohn Evans of the Mynrys in London Iue {sic} 19 h. 6 p m. 1628

writeth for a gent mā

first vnfoldeth his owne greefe how he is wrōged & cosened of all yt he hath & therby he his wife & childrē broght to great want & misery craveth my Counsell & instruction

Also writeth in the behalfe of a gentlemā yt having taken an extreme cold & prsently an exceeding greefe for the Death of his wife & {th}erby cast Downe into sicknes & mutch melancholy of a sanguyne cōplexion his sicknes & melancholy is mutch abated & now his voice is almost Lost yt he s cānot {sic} \on cānot/ spea heare on \him/ that speaketh {sic} \to speake/ a yard of

cōplayneth of something about the pit of his throate his voice is only low & weake but not troubled wth any fault in noncing but cleere inough every where no physick but cōplayneth of the coldnes of his stomack & head & sone {sic} stoppage about the begying of his nose cold flegme & cold head & defect in hearing hath 2 great manyscripts of physick yt he is Desyrous I should vse craveth vnder god my consayle for the frind his gentleman

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 405, f. 80r (upper left part of page)

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CASE55470: Horary consultation concerning Sir Thomas Monson [Baronet] [Mr Monson [the elder]] (PERSON5064) and Young Mr John Monson (PERSON33305)

Question asked by Sir Thomas Monson [Baronet] [Mr Monson [the elder]] (PERSON5064) on 6 January 1623 at 17:00

RN Sr Th. Mounson. for his owne fortune touching his busines wth ny {sic} lord treasourer & how Th Marq of Buckingham & the young gentlemā will befrynd him to have an end of his busynes & also of his sons health & when he is to prsent his gyft to ye king. Ian. 6. h. 5. p m. 1623

Mr Iohn is better then he was of his cold & keepeth still his chāber his ioynt are weake his father craveth my advice for him Ian. 6. h. 5 p m 1623. full of melanch

Transcribed entry from MS Ashmole 222, f. 150v (upper right, and bottom left parts 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)

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?f36-question-asked=Medical%3A%3AMedical%20counsel;f37-question-asked=Medical%3A%3ASymptoms%20%28specified%29;f38-date=1620-1629, accessed 8 April 2025.