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CASE34342: Interrogation (Death) concerning Smith (PERSON25416)

Question asked by Goody Mary Farnwell [Parrot] (PERSON11661) on 5 November 1608 at 10:40

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Richard Napier Mary Parret of Throp came to know my counsell. it drooped on fryday but did not mutch cōplayne vntill 3 houres before it dyed. on weddensdaye it did cast before it & did scoure also. a weeke before it dyed it voyded wormes./

the child dyed novemb 2. h. 10. 30 p m 1608.

did cōplayne that his bones did ake & sayd he was sick.

heavy of sleepe forsooke his food sayd he might not tell his mothr where he was sicke cōplayned vnder his eares but no thing was seene./

Transcribed entry from MS Ashmole 229, f. 237v (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.), ‘CASE34342’, The casebooks of Simon Forman and Richard Napier, 1596–1634: a digital edition, https://casebooks.lib.cam.ac.uk/cases/CASE34342, accessed 19 May 2025.