Casebooks

RN Goody Blea of this towne Novēb. 10. ♀ h. 9. ant m. 16i5

\hath a loosenes/ burning feaver faynt feeble sent to me for a cordiall

RN Goody Gale for her Thomas Gostick a yere & a halfe old borne the weddensday after mysdsomer. sent Ian. 28 ♂ h. 11. ant m 1623.

It doth pyne & eate litle & doth not sper nor cānot goe it is so weake.

Elner Warner her next neighb. Elis Steaphinson who dwell boath togeath^r her mother hanged

cānot kepe his water.

RN Annys Anne |a poor wench| /13 y\ of Southwick in Northāptonsheere by Owndall |M^r Lynn Esquire wrote in her behalfe| It tooke her 16. Ian 16 fell into her fits of convulsions swonding fits w^th quaking & trēbling Ian 30. ♃ h. 11 ant m 1634 taketh away her speach swoundeth convuls¹

RN Iohn Line of Atterbery 50 y Ap 11. ☉ hor. 6. p m 1602. for a cōsumption of nature & bodye & great fayntnes & feeblenes

he demanded wheath^r I could helpe him & sayd If I could he would come over to me./

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 The Lord wentworth of Tyddington Aug. 31. h {sic} hor 8 20 p m 1622¹

RN {c}orrepta tremore et fere stupore. march. 26: ♀. h. 1. p m 1613.

RN Mres Elis Norton fell into a swound & cōtinued dead w^t for a long tyme yet revived agayne wth & had many convulsions March 20. ♃ h. 8. 30 ant m 1617.

RN M^r Iohn Smyth of linford febr 24 ♂ h. 10. 30 ant m 1618

he sent for me to come to him sodenly taken w^th a stitch going to help a cow y^t cānot stand nor rise no more can he

RN M^r Powell of London sent to M^r Cooke to have some thing to thicken his seed troubled w^th the gonorrea lyeth on his bed back els cānot sleepe is to may {sic} shortly wanteth virility & erection sweateth at night. Ian. 11 h. 8. 20 ant m 1623¹

RN Anne Dakres {sic} \the lady Dacres/ sister to y^e lady Osburne 52 y weake & feeble Octob. 1. h {sic} hor 8 ant m 1625

I Did fynd this letter & did reade sent to me to come or to send her word when I wille come by a messenger.

Mres Anne Dackres sent letter 3 of Septēb. ♄. 1625 frō Chixsands.

RN Iohn Harburne of Hartwell 60. y taken w^th a swoundding fits Ian 30. ☾ h. 11 p m 1626

RN Arthur Humfrey of Newp. was taken w^th a Tert feaver exceding burning. taken first on fryday last feb 10 ♀ h. 10. 30 p m 1626 /50 y\

RN was frank \Naper/ my Neece \of Luton Hoe/ taken on fryday last h. 11 at night after her first sleepe w^th Casting & scouring Ian. 2. ♀ h. 11 p m 1629

RN S^r Robart Naper my brother sent a letter to me touching his grevous payne in making his water stopped w^th mutch dregs in the |bladder| Iuly 69 y Iuly 17 ♀ h. 6. p m 1629

my brother S^r Rob Naper Iuly 17 ♀ h 6 30 p m 1629

RN another fit yesterd Ian. 1. wheesing breath stopped

RN Elis: Collins of Northāpton 10 y l {sic} Decēb. 9.      sent to me Ap. 2. ♂. h. 1. 30 p m 1633. /Convulsion fits\

RN Iohn Risely of Rawnson sent onc againe to me for my counsell his pain lieth now in his Cods {w^c} are swollen as big as ons hed & as hard as a borde he was wont to haue them swollen very big but then lasted but 5 houres & nowe swelled ever sinc weddensday he cannot eate sleepe or goe to ground. troubled w^th the wind Cholicke a paine in his backe st{illeg}ry Desirous to take a stro{illeg} but Doubteth he ca shall be able Decēb. filius  patre cū consensu. Decēb 30. die ♄. h. 10. \9. 45./ 1598 his water cold red & thi{ck}

RN Agnys Kent of Moulsoe almost 5 quarters borne on Palme sonday last was twelfmonth about some {sic} rising sent to me May 14. ☿. h. 5. p m. 1628.

It is pyned & cōsumed belly hard & voydeth wormes living 6. wasteth in the body. was nurced by goody Keburne. goody Keburne came into another nurces house & would needes suckle it, wheath^r the nurce would or no & sinc mutch amys & it swounded twice to day belly very hard flesh quite wasted was not well tended by goody Keburne face swelled buttocke black & blewe. cānot stand vppon the lyms the child p^rsent w^th goody Alton of Moulsoe it did batle well vnder this nurce vntill goody Keburne her former nurce would suckle it force tooke some surfet.

RN The lady \An/ Butler for her m^r Oliver Butler 9 y next march bone {sic} 28 or 29 about 12 & on in the night. of Harolde sent to me for this child Ian 3 h {sic} hor 11. 45 ant m 1623 {sic}. extree {sic} weake & feeble & cā take no physick taken w^th strang fits plucking his \right/ syde & rūneth to his back being holden harde & an extree {sic} cough almost halfe a yere. & is pyned & cā not stand nor goe Ill tong suspected