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CASE21258: Horary consultation concerning Marian Web (PERSON16903)

Question asked by the patient on 12 July 1604 at 09:30

RN maryon web 20 y Iuly 12. . hor. 9. 30 ant m 1604.

faynt & feeble. stomacke. can not eate any thing

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 415, f. 107r (upper left part of page)

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CASE12546: Horary consultation concerning Jays [Joyce] Johnson (PERSON13249)

Question asked by the patient on 19 August 1599 at 16:45

RN Aug. 18 die Iays Iansone of Cosgrave 50 y. Aug. 19. die h. 4. 45. an p m. 1599 a payne in her harte & body & troubled wth winde / lyeth in her syde.

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 228, f. 179r (upper right part of page)

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CASE64425: Horary consultation concerning Mrs Margaret Smith (PERSON35539)

Question asked by the patient on 10 August 1627 at 09:00

RN Margaret Smyth. of Broughton 43 y Aug. 10. . h. 9 ant m. 1627 |hath an ague every day sinc christmas|

strangly taken wth a rising at her hart likely to swound sa a knife & feareth to see a knife & trēbleth at it.

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 227, f. 185r (upper left part of page)

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CASE49738: Horary consultation concerning Mr Foster (PERSON30537)

Question asked by the patient on 30 September 1619 at 17:39

RN Mr fosters letter read by me sept 30 h. 5. 39 p m 1619 /a wyndy venemous vapour rūing into his belly wth a swelling\ vtr venef sit passus.

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 213, f. 14r (upper left part of page)

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CASE76844: Horary consultation concerning Judith Hix (PERSON51624)

Question asked by the patient on 4 April 1633 at 10:00

RN Iudith Hix of Woodstocke ma\r/yed 31 y the fryday before the lady Day Ap 4 h. 9. 20 \10/ ant m 1633 /a trēbling in her belly\ /an extreme griping in her belly\

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 211, p. 1 (upper left part of page)

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CASE57561: Horary consultation concerning Mr Oliver Boteler (PERSON28235)

Question asked by Lady Anne Boteler [Farrar] [Butler] (PERSON28242) on 3 January 1624 at 11:45

RN The lady \An/ Butler for her mr Oliver Butler 9 y next march bone {sic} 28 or 29 about 12 & on in the night. of Harolde sent to me for this child Ian 3 h {sic} hor 11. 45 ant m 1623 {sic}. extree {sic} weake & feeble & cā take no physick taken wth strang fits plucking his \right/ syde & rūneth to his back being holden harde & an extree {sic} cough almost halfe a yere. & is pyned & cā not stand nor goe Ill tong suspected

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 413, f. 53r (upper right part of page)

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CASE38113: Horary consultation concerning Richard Dudley (PERSON29934)

Question asked by the patient on 13 May 1611 at 05:25

RN Rich Dudley of Shenly. 48 y may 13. h. 5. 25 ant m 1611. /strangly taken by fits at hart lik as on pinched & gryped. fery stroken\

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 200, f. 96r (upper right part of page)

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CASE13804: Horary consultation concerning Richard Carter (PERSON10352)

Question asked by the patient on 3 June 1603 at 13:30

RN Rich Carter of Althrop \Sr/ |Iohns Spence\r/s man.| 32 y. Iune 3. hor. 1. 30 p m. 1603.12

[Astrological Chart]

Notes:

1 ‘piles. hed bottom of his belly’ in chart

2 ‘Rich Carter swounded stranglye.’ in the right margin

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 197, f. 42v (bottom left part of page)

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CASE50666: Horary consultation concerning Mr Dr James [Justice of the Peace] (PERSON52432)

Question asked by Mrs James (PERSON52439) on 20 April 1620 at 15:20

RN D Iames of Oxford st|ran|gly {sic} \straungly/ taken wth a palsye on the left syde of the face hand & leg taken at church & great red blatches in t|H|is fac & bodye & his ey swelling & f|H|is face a yere before & sinc he contenting certen sup witches & on being acquitted he felt his strange stitch on his s {sic} left syde by fits he supposeth yt the womā susp for a witch but quitted by the Iudges did hurte him the 24 of feb. sep a ap yt night at sup first taken. had his first fit after he talked wth mr Rob. Conye. feb 18. in ye after noone his first fit but his worst fit the 24 of feb when the sup witch was acquitted/

Mres Iames mentioned Mr Doctor Iames |of oxford| Ap. 20 h. 3. 20 p m. 1620 /she related all at this tyme/\

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 414, f. 5r (upper left, and upper right parts of page)

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CASE12847: Horary consultation concerning Elizabeth Carter (PERSON10361)

Question asked by the patient on 26 November 1599 at 10:15

RN Elisab Carter of Cranfild 43 y. 14 y sinc had a childe novemb. 26. die h. 10. 15 ant m. 1599 never well sinc shee bred two twins & on dyed. /payned in her brest.\

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 228, f. 229r (middle, bottom left, and bottom right parts of page)

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CASE43612: Horary consultation concerning Frideswide Constable (PERSON29249)

Question asked by the patient on 6 July 1616 at 13:30

RN friswyth Constable of marsen wth will Robyns. 22 y Iuly 6. h {sic} hor. 1. 30 p m 16i6. |in her backe crying & cā fynd no rest|

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 408, f. 128v (upper right part of page)

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CASE47955: Decumbiture for Mrs Lucy Hainsworth (PERSON23557)

Question asked by Mr Hainsworth (PERSON23555) on 12 December 1618 at 14:00

RN Mres Haynsworth of Stonystratford 35 y & as mutch as frō the 4 of August last was strangly taken at the hart & did swound often tymes almost Dead Decēb. 9. h 12 1618.

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 230, f. 112r (upper left part of page)

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CASE57783: Horary consultation concerning Mary Mustowe [Must] (PERSON55128)

Question asked by the patient on 1 March 1624 between 09:00 and 10:45

RN Mary Mustowe of fensam 25 y the monday before last miklemas at 4 in ye morning /a very Corp wench.\ troubled wth fits of ye mother after a sore maner as she & other suppose beworded yet she telleth me as long as she had her playster of Galbonū was well/

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 413, f. 89v (bottom left part of page)

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CASE34580: Horary consultation concerning Old Father John Bechino [Pinner] (PERSON9584)

Question asked by the patient on 17 December 1608 at 11:00

RN Iohn Bichinoe otherwise Pinner 6 70 y of Walton. Decēb. 17 hor. 11 ant m 1608. /wynd cholick. womes {sic} in the bel{ly}\1

[Astrological Chart]

Notes:

1 ‘haunted wth fearyes’ in chart

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 229, f. 272v (upper right part of page)

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CASE14079: Horary consultation concerning Mrs Anne Barber (PERSON9438)

Question asked by the patient on 28 September 1603 at 09:15

RN Mres An Barber of Kensworthe 46|5| y. sept 28. hor 9. 16|5|. ant m 1603.

was borne {illeg} {sic} on a {tuds} \shrovesōdaye/ after noone. an hour betwixt 4 & 5. /hath often bene let blood sicknes gone this 4 yeres.\ |extreeme hot. casteth vp sometymes leek whit of egge. sometymes blacke stuffe.|

[Astrological Chart]

Mres An Barber sept 28 hor. 9. 15 ant m. 1603. strangly handled wth her stomack burning & gnawing & then an intolerable paine of her hed for 20 houres not well for 40 houre & then it cōmeth once in a weeke in the wynter. & aftr hath a swelling & a gnawing in the calf of her legs.

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 197, ff. 89v-90r (f. 89v upper right, and f. 90r upper left)

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CASE52264: Horary consultation concerning Elizabeth Bonner [Bonoe] [Miller] (PERSON44425)

Question asked by the patient on 9 April 1621 at 11:15

RN Elis. Boner of Risely 30 y Ap. 9 . h. 11. 30 \15/ ant m 1621.

It belly hard swelled & feeleth on her brest as a bladder wth beans ratling 7 weekes |not sick but sore in her bodye|

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 233, f. 106r (upper right part of page)

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CASE75463: Horary consultation concerning Mrs Elizabeth Catesby (PERSON45756)

Question asked by the patient on 1 August 1632 at 07:00

RN falling sicknes & suffoc of the mother Aug. 1. h. h. 7 ant m 1632

Mres Elis Catesbee 12 y yt had many fits almost 20 in a day susp. Elis. Marrshall.

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 416, p. 435 (upper left part of page)

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CASE12234: Horary consultation concerning John Windmill (PERSON17222)

Question asked by Windmill (PERSON17233) on 10 April 1599 at 07:00

RN Iohn Windmill of Yardly Gubbin a twelmoneth old & as mutch as candelmas the sunday after candlemas. came & brought her Child yt was payned in the body & had divers fi strange fits. but before it tooke it had a fit of an ague before it. not v this beating & panting began on friday night wth a quivering & shakings of the belly & armes Apr. 10. die h. 7. ant m. 1599 goeth had|r|d to grounde cryeth

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 228, f. 125r (upper left part 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?f4-question-asked=Medical%3A%3AParts%20of%20the%20body%3A%3ATorso;f6-question-asked=Medical%3A%3ASymptoms%20%28specified%29;f7-question-asked=Medical%3A%3AWitchcraft%20and%20devil, accessed 13 February 2025.