Casebooks

RN The Lady Alce had sore fits of the mother in the morning Septēb 18 ♂ h. 9 ant m 1632¹

RN sept 2

Aug 26 ☾ hor {8} {sic} \8/ p m 1605 I sawe Mary Gūther in her fitte wheath^r shee be bewitched or noe. |quæro meā {sic} spōte|

RN M^r Vincēt Goddard came to me march 28 ♃ h. 4. 38 p m 1605.

mopish

I set this for m^r Goddard aft^rward.

M^r Goddard talked w^th me touching his sonne & his fits halfe an houre be 12. {sic}

RN M^r Shaxton taken w^th a strang fit Apr 21. ♂ h. 8. 25 p m {sic} \7. 50. p m/ 1607 /put it for 7. 50 p m 1607.\

RN may 23 taken agayne in a cold tranc y^t every body thought he would then dy his worst fit ☾ h may 23 ☾ h. 4. ant m 1614

RN Goody Ekins taken w^th on of her old fits as on hanted w^th some ill spirit August 3. ☾ h. 12. 40. p m 1618

RN Mres Ans fit tooke her Ian. 14. ☾ h. hor 2. p. m. 1633

horrible str{ā}g fits of \the/ motherSRN

RN It taketh him every night w^th cōvulsions ready to make him swound About 12. 1608 Ian 29. ♀. h. 12.. {sic} 11. 45. p m. 1608.¹

RN Mres Iēnyngs strangly taken w^th sore fits of convuls Ap 13. h. 12. p {sic} at mydnight 1623. /sine consensu\

RN Susan Blundell toke her fit by some foolish vision & sight at what time she laughed & sawe Goody Greene & goody Nichols flinging of trenchers & when it tooke her as they say shee cryed out vppon Goody Barnwell. the 13 of Novemb. die ♄. h noctis circ 12 1596.

Susan Blundell

GJ A man of              For his Child 6 y. old that hath many fittꝭ of falling in a day. and great payne of the head and leggꝭ

Epilepsia. Maij 25 ☿ ho. 1. 30 p m. 1603

RN Iohn leachfild. of Northāpton fell into his fitt Iuly 12. {illeg}|♃| h. 4. p m 16i0¹

RN Water Cheese of Stony stratford borne the last night being ☉ about betwixt 5 & six 20 weekes sinc. her disease & first fit tooke it feb 21 ♃ h 4. p m 1611. it did shake w^th the hands & wryteth {sic} y^e mouth & hed & clutcheth the hands & grypeth. & falleth. the first daye 2 fits. yesterday & this day may {sic} fits.

water good.

{sen}|{wro}|te to me febr. 25 ☾ h. 4. 15. p m 1611.

RN Dnā francisca fortes{illeg}|ku|e of Saldon 19 y correpta epilesia {sic} acerrima decēb 19. ♃ h. 10. 25. p m 16i6 w^ch fit lasted longe /this fit worst most desperate tedious & lasted longe\

RN Mres Francis fortiskue taken epilepsia Decēb. 19. ♃ h 4. p m 16i6. a sore fit & m{en}ded a fore sup. |& th{en} after ten fell into a most tedious fitt{e}|

RN Iane Tomson serv to Syr Will fortiscue 22 y Aug. 23. h. 7 p m very sick fit 1618

RN Oliver Newton of Lavendon grang taken w^th the first epilepticall Fit Aug 12 {illeg}|☾| h. 9 ant m 1622

RN Susan Blundell is now given mutch to sleeping shee slept as her moth^r told me vppo the 20^th of may. die ♄ fro that night vntill the next night follow {sic} the space of 24 houres but y^t her sleepe was interrupted w^th her vsuall fitꝭ & y^t very often. her moth^r came to tell me of it. the 22 of may die ☾. h. 7. 15. mi

RN Grace Chadwick of Northāpton 50 y Ap. 26. ♀ h. 11. 45 ant m 1622 |troubled w^th the stones & sore fits./|

RN yest was month stretched out her hands cōpl of a lightnes in her head her eys {rune} & is sleepish

It tooke her sorely & had \a/ very greevous fit in the morning & so always in her bed h. 6. 30 in aurora martch 30 ☿ {sic} |march 29. ♂| h. 6. 30 ant m 163i