Casebooks

RN M^r Iohn Smith of Great brickhill sent me a letter Iune 29. ♃|♄| ♄ 5. 45 p m 1605. /itch more, hed gydye\

RN At this tyme a greene womā newly delivered sent for her hed cānot sleepe I think goody Pen.

RN M^r Iohn Duncōbe of great Brickhill sent to me for his head & the vertiginousnes therof \30. y./ Octob. 4 h {sic} hor. 9 40 ant m 1628.

RN Will Roughead sent his water vnto me cōplayning of his chest princip & of the lightnes of his head Sept. 6 die ☿ h. 6. 50 m. ant m. 1598.

RN Elisabeth Witsy of Newport 22 yeres maried her yongest child 2 yeres old & nowe greate w^th Child troubled in her hed most grevowsly ever sinc sunday last. was sennet betwixt 12 & 1. sent this 20 of March. die ♂ h. 10. ant m. 1599. shee loketh every day to be Delivered.

Deafe w^th p|h|edache. her eare muttereth hie coloured.

RN Will: Malins m accersivit me qui valde ægrotab. capit 1598 mai 3 die ☿. h. 9. 38. mi. laborabat capitis te sinistra miru in modu. more febris ardentis eu app^rhendit.

RN The Lady Longeville new come to Billen about on weddensday last sent h a letter to me Iuly 26 ♀. h. 2. p m 1622

how her courses be broken downe & y^t her hedach is nothing so bad as it was wont.

RN My Cosen Lant sent to me a letter novēb 25 h {sic} hor 12 {sic} \11. 30/ 1626 /craveth pils. troubled in her head & hearing as before\

RN Richard Māning of Hartwell 20 yeres sick this 7 weekes & can doe not doe any thing taketh him leeke an ague & when it cōmeth w^th a shaking colde & going away it maketh him as it were blind it so troubleth his hed. sent this 18 of Apr: die ☿ h. 1. 2|1|5. m pnn {sic} 1599.

RN M^r Barker \of great Horwood/ the cter sent a letter opening his maladyes may 2. h {sic} hor. 6. 25. ant m 1618. a stopping of cold & tough flegme y^t hath bene long a contracting in y^e stomach. a great cough & reareth mutch & the hed w^th senc & feeling went almost in two no great appetite to eate. save liquids & these the thinner & sharper

RN Chrystopher Woodfild lying long sicke wrote \sente/ vnto me to come to him martij 31. ♃ hor. 1. {p}|15| p m 1603. troubled w^th a shortnes of wynd ready to stop his wynd an aso{illeg}|m|a. hed gydye a burning in his body desyrous to have his neighbours forgive him as making no oth^r reckning then of death.

RN \my Lady/ Mres {sic} Digbye for her |chāber| meaden |Mary Travell| 24 y August 25 ♃ hor 11. ant m. 1603.

sore & lame afore shee hath her sicknes in her bones & hed the mumpes also.

Lady very fearfull & caused her mayd to send her wat^r

RN Goody Ashburnoure very sorely pained in her head light headed & swelled in her face very red. can take no sleepe nor rest. sent to me. may 4. die ♀. h. 5. 48. mi ant m 1599 hath not had her couses {sic} this two yeres. bledeth nowe & then at the nose.

RN Iohn Goodding|win| of C{vt}|ol|{illeg}worth 36 y Iune 30 ♃ h. 12 1608. |hed mutch payned stomack & costive|

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 Mres Rolt \Iane Rolt/ of Bonyst sent to me to know wheath^r shee be w^th child or no Apr. 19 ♀ h. 11. 15 ant m. 1605. y {sic} 29 y.

Elisabeth Baudwyne at the same tyme her syster. 20 yeres.

Also for her sist^r who is troubled w^th great hedach & a bad stomacke & cānot Digest keepeth her bed

|M^res| Iane Rolt of Bonyst 29 y Apr 19 ♀ h. 11. 15 ant m 1605

quærit an sit gravida

RN M^r Nicholas langford sent his water agayne because it was not well p^rserved as I wished him to doe. novemb. 11. ♃ hor. 9. ant m. 1602.

a swyming in y^e hed a raw stomack mutch fleme.

RN The lady Spencer of Offley sept 16 ☉ h. 12. 45. p m 1627

\cānot sleepe hed light & gydy/ for her rheme & hed

for y^e lady spencer of Offley sept 16 1627

RN G {sic} Ione Hatch of Simpson 53. payned in her hed & back & every where. & hath a great mist over her eyes. / sent to me for phisick was vp taketh her as an ague very Cold. & litle hot. Apr 27. die ♀ h. 3. ps m {sic}. 1599.

RN at this time Mary Pen of Straford sent me her water. w^ch was full of motes & scales & had gravell in the bottome. her former phisick I gave her wrought vpward. hath a great gydines at in her heade hart feeble bellye.