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CASE56903: Interrogation (Medical episode) concerning John Villiers [Lord Purbeck] (PERSON60854)

Question asked by Mr Richard Napier [Sandy] [Richard Napier [Senior]] (PERSON5218) on 18 August 1623 between 06:45 and 15:00

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Richard Napier My Lord would have me to pray & read the prayers of the cōon booke & ended well, then he would take that booke & say the visit of the sick & suddenly was taken wth an extreme furious passionate fit h. 7 ant m 1623.

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my lord Purbecke Aug. 18 h. 7 ant {m} 1623.

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my lord Purbeck 21 y. h 12 \6. 45/ in m {sic} 1623

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after prayer asso{one} as he him self{e} would have rea{de} the visitation of {the} sick fell into {a} desp fur. fit1

Notes:

1 ‘a passionate fit.’ in chart

Transcribed entry from MS Ashmole 218, f. 193v, f. 194v (f. 193v bottom left, and f. 194v upper right)

Cite this as: Lauren Kassell, Michael Hawkins, Robert Ralley, John Young, Joanne Edge, Janet Yvonne Martin-Portugues, and Natalie Kaoukji (eds.), ‘CASE56903’, The casebooks of Simon Forman and Richard Napier, 1596–1634: a digital edition, https://casebooks.lib.cam.ac.uk/cases/CASE56903, accessed 19 May 2025.