Casebooks

RN M^res Williams y^t lay at Hoppins 2. y. sinc inquireth the cause why Her child Dyed of a swelling susp to be witched.

RN M^r fosters letter read by me sept 30 ♃ h. 5. 39 p m 1619 /a wyndy venemous vapour rūing into his belly w^th a swelling\ vtr venef sit passus.

RN Williā Lovely of Newport 60. greeped & tormented at the harte ready to make him selfe away & of his brest: the 15 of Martij die ♃. h. 9 metuit venefic: 1599 hed & face swelleth.

RN Anthony Chaundler of drayton sloe 14 y martij 11. ☾ h 8 \7. 30/ ant m. 1605. taken lame in his armes & legs. y^t he can not goe hath no feeling of his armes. on of his legs begyn to swell¹

RN Harry Clarke of Ashon 6 y. swollen in his face cryeth & skriketh. Ian 18 die ♀ h. 12 1. p m. 1600. metunt veneficiū

RN M^r Clement a yorkesheer gentlemā a young mā strangly taken first with a b{ow}ing & now w^th 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

RN Robart Lane of North Crowly 37. yeres a Dropsy Iune 19 die ♃ h. 3. 20 p m. 1600

Dropsie leek./

metuit veneficiū viduæ Hall.

swelled w^th red spots & angry

RN margaret lingard of lowick 38 y may 26. ☿ h. 5. p m 1613. a wynd tympany.¹

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 w^th beans ratling 7 weekes |not sick but sore in her bodye|

RN Suddenly taken in his \right/ arme the vse taken away payned in the throate swelled w^th a cough & taken w^th strong & strang fits & is very hot in his fits w^ch continue above halfe a day feb. 17 ☉ h. 12. p m. 1628

RN Will: Seere of haversham. 53 yeres old sitteth vp by the fier, very stiffe & hardly to {ground} onc in 24 houres complayneth of his body & lims & legs most in on of his sides all over his left syde ever sinc March last: first amisse not able to goe over the Dore threshall. sinc Alhalloutide. sent his wife to me Decēb. 21. die ♃. h. 12. 45. 1598. on of his legs the left wonderfully swelled. a very diseased body & hath had a greate cough.¹

RN Goodmā Hues of Dunsannger. Decēb. 29. die ☾ h. 9. 5{illeg}|5| ant m. 1600 /he hat a hard swelling in his neck red of t betwixt his shoulders of the bignes of a peny cake.\

RN Ellen Gybson of morthāpton {sic} 31 y may 26 {illeg}|☿| h. 3. 45 p m 1619 strangly w^th {illeg}|s|welling in her knes & cōtraction of sinowes a long tyne {sic} many medsons applyed litle good

RN The lady Butler touching her child y^t is well amended of his fits ye{d}|t| weake & not able to goe feets & legs swell still & cānot sleepe a weeke togeath^r till after a eleaven in y^e morning |marh {sic} 13 h {sic} h 12 30 p m 1624| sent for her neighb vrsula Clarke 50 y March 13 h {sic} hor. 12. 30 p m 1624

RN Robart Kinsweeke of Elstoe 54 y. taken in London taken on the right syde fyngers head & feete w^th a swelling. Apr. 25. vppon S^t Markes Day being satterday betwixt 6 & 7 in the morning. was first taken. Apr. 25. die ♄ hor 6. 30. ant m. 160i. betwixt 3 & 4 aft^r noone could not styrre & the sunday morning could not speake

he was blasted in a garden.¹

TG Thomas Brownes wife of Rance {illeg}|3|2 y. March 25 ♂ h. 7 p M. 1634 hath a heate & swelling which first begann in her face & now runneth from one member into anothersuspecteth wichcraft. hath beene troubled this 12 moneth.

RN The Countes of Rutland 21 y Octob. 21 ☿ h. 2. p m. 1607 |hed strange legs & knes swell. back/|

RN Mres Whaly of Cosgrave. h. 1. 30 p m. 1605.

on leg swelled. y & {sic} on & boath sidꝭ ill by fits. back extreme ill.

& on boath legs have red spots vp to her thighes & sweateth every night. / h. 2. p m 1605.

It.

RW Mary Bonner of Flitton y. 9. d. ☿ h: 0. Ianuar: 23. 1622. much swelled in her head & face: & her belly sometimes. scoureth much

RN D Iames of Oxford st|ran|gly {sic} \straungly/ taken w^th 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 y^t the womā susp for a witch but quitted by the Iudges did hurte him the 24 of feb. ☾ sep a □ ♄ ap ☌ ♂ y^t night at sup first taken. had his first fit after he talked w^th m^r Rob. Conye. feb 18. in y^e after noone his first fit but his worst fit the 24 of feb when the sup witch was acquitted/

M^res Iames mentioned M^r Doctor Iames |of oxford| Ap. 20 ♃ h. 3. 20 p m. 1620 /she related all at this tyme/\