Casebooks

RN An Smyth of Stony stratford 30 y mayed {sic} feb. 20 h {sic} hor 3. p m. 1619. 12 days sick. lyeth like a Chisone {sic} child all the day & always at night behave her selfe like a bedlome & hath in her mad fits cut of a great peece of her tongue cānot sleepe these 12 days but lyeth broad awake

RN Steaphen Vle of Cransly 74|5| Aug 7 ☿ h 2. 40 p m 1622. |tooke w^th a suddn convulsion 2 y since hath it 4 tymes a yere & mendeth|

RN Marian Greene of Maninford 43 y feb 10 ☉ h 8 ant m 1633

taken w^th an epilepticall fit

RN A poer womā for on y^t hath bene frentick by fits & hath also a lethargy Iuly 16 ♀ h 6. 20 ant m 1630 /mater  filio deliveratu et {fumigate}\

RN Alce Knight of newp 18 f|y| feb 14. ☿ h. 13 ♂ h. 10 10 30 ant m 1621 sudenly taken w^th skyking fits cry & take on grevously /this was the third tyme troubled w^th the kings evill.\

RN M^r Wyndgate May 20 ♀ h. 11 ant m 1625 idle headed cānot sleepe

RN S^r Th. Tyringhā sent t{o} me to know what I think of his Daughte{rs} strang fits of skriking n{ovē b} 6 ☉ h. 3. p m 163{1} /|nō| sine cōsensu.\

RN M^r Chrystopher Clarke of Potters Perry 2 19 y \our lady day last at noone/ Ap. 23. ☾ h. 9 ant m \outing & pass. senceles in his fits/ 1632. /vnckle for his Cosen.\ /Contag fits cā take no rest\

M^r Christoph Clarke 19 y of {sic} Ap 23. ☾. h.

RN Decēb 22. ☉ h. 2. 40|5| p m 1622 swounded & fomed & his mouth Drawen backward. & at night had another fit & this swounded 4 tymes yesterd daye

RN francis Revening of Barcōsteede in Hartford sheere 21 y Iun|ly|e 1. ♃ h. 8. 12 ant m. 1630

This fellow iust at nig nine \of the clocke/ before his falling fit strooke me over the eylid. his sences Decayed 3 weekes talketh idlely

Did aske me blessing at his in comming

RN M^r Cave of Leycester 4 38. y. May 2. h {sic} hor 4. 30 m {sic} p m 1629 |mayed {sic} 13 y 4 child. youngest 3. y.|

M^r Cave of Leycester 38. y. May 2. h {sic} hor 4. 30 p m 1629 had a palsy & the Iliaca Convulsions

RN Mres Holland. Lond: 23 y at Halloutyde last. Weddensday maij 6. ♂ h. 10. ant m 1606 |taken first on weddensd east^r weeke \easter {sic}/ at night| /in her bed. at 12. p m a thing like a dog cāme vppō her made her fome & skrike\ |shee sayd she sawe some ill thing in her bed comīg to her like a cat or a dog as shee lay w^th her husb. y^t strooke her w^th a dead palsye./|

RN M^r Wyndgate taken w^th \his/ old fits w^th an Idle brayne & full of talke may 13. ♀ h. 12. 1625¹

RN first of all taken in his bed w^th a great heavynes in his head Aug 3. ☾ h. 7 ant m 1629

first taken w^th an aguish fit

RN was first strangly taken feb 28. ♂ h. 9. p m 1632.

fell downe dead & had 2 or 3 fits in an houres & will \doth/ quake skreame & crye

feb 28 ♂ h. 8 40 \30/ p m 1632 /of all tes body & toes\

U[1628–30] Thomas write {illeg} was borne on \the next/ satterday at night after on michelmus was twelmounth, betweene a 11 or 12 at|or| i3, a Clock but cam to me at 1 of clock, y^e 14^th: of march 1630./

had a quiuorin & sounding on michelmus last & 3 Dayes the after y^e small pox & then at shroftide & this last night had 3 fitts after the same manner a boue saide, being y^e 13^th Day complaines on the head & heauie & apt to sleepe

RN M^r Tyrringhās mead of Tyrringhā 24 y Ian. 13 ☉ h. 9. ant m 1605. suffocat matricis strange fits eith^r of moth^r or apop. litharg.¹

RN She was taken strangly & sodenly but more yesterday then before Iuly 24. ☿ h 4|5| \5/ p m 1622. at sermō tȳe w^th strāg convulsions taking away her speach. & vse of her armes & her belly Did burne & trēble & was & is ever mightely tormōted w^th sore tēptatiōs when she is most willing to serve god¹