Casebooks

RN Margeret Brace of Carington about 30 yeres old. Octob 6 die ♀ h 1|9|. \9/. 38. sick for this 3 weekes. 1598. speachles & almost Dead. about a fortnight a goe. & did bleed wonderfully

this woman sente vnto me by the vicar of Crowly but I would give her nothing vntill I had spoken w^th some y^t knew the state of the woman the vicar sent Iohn ball. the woman mended p^rsently vppon it.

RN M^res {B} {sic} Blundell sent to me to come to her daught^r. y^t was very sicke & speachles ever sinc the 14 of Ian. die ♄. at night. 1598. mittit  me Ian. 20. of ian die ♀ h. post merid. 1. 45 /who hath her speach againe\

mother for Susan Bludell {sic} speachles sent for me to come to her Ian 20 ♀ h. 1. 45 p m 1598.

sine cons. epilepsia /verius erecta.\

RN Ihone |Ione.| Blea nata 1594 Septemb. 10. die ♂ h. 4^ta m. 15. morning muta et surda. in Great Linford

RN Edmund Marchaunt of haversham 26 y Apr 30. ♂ h. 10. ant p m 1605

He lyeth speachles

I set this figure the next day in y^e morning he had bene y^t Day at footebale & some suppose y^t he tooke a great bruise.

RN Iane Curtis \of Chelson & Caucot/ is 7 y old vppō S^t Buttolphes eve a litle before sone setting will quake & trēble & cā speak I & no but litle els they feare y^t she hath an Impediment \in her/ mouth. \father/ came to me for her w^th this note may 3. ☾ h. 12. 30 a|p| m 1624

RN And Mary Robarse Robartꝭ at the same tyne {sic} her breath as sopped {sic} cānot speak an Impostume feared

RN Elis Wyndmyll of Hanslop. 54 y Iune 28 ♄ 1. p m 1623. /Doth faulter in her speach\

RN An Bunch of Risdone 5 y & a halfe borne the 11^th of sept ☾ about 3 in the after noone 1620. ever sinc she was borne lame in her lims cā speak but dead ¹

cānot speake.

cannot styrre. nor stand litle vse of y^e lims./.

RN {I}ohn Evans of the Mynrys in London Iue {sic} 19 ♃ h. 6 p m. 1628

writeth for a gent mā

first vnfoldeth his owne greefe how he is wrōged & cosened of all y^t he hath & therby he his wife & childrē broght to great want & misery craveth my Counsell & instruction

Also writeth in the behalfe of a gentlemā y^t having taken an extreme cold & p^rsently an exceeding greefe for the Death of his wife & {th}erby cast Downe into sicknes & mutch melancholy of a sanguyne cōplexion his sicknes & melancholy is mutch abated & now his voice is almost Lost y^t he s cānot {sic} \on cānot/ spea heare on \him/ that speaketh {sic} \to speake/ a yard of

cōplayneth of something about the pit of his throate his voice is only low & weake but not troubled w^th any fault in noncing but cleere inough every where no physick but cōplayneth of the coldnes of his stomack & head & sone {sic} stoppage about the begying of his nose cold flegme & cold head & defect in hearing hath 2 great manyscripts of physick y^t he is Desyrous I should vse craveth vnder god my consayle for the frind his gentleman

RN It tooke him first on sonday last w^th a trēbling all over. & tooke away the vse of his lyms & now his sences & all 25 ☉ h. 9. 30 ant m sodaynly taken 162i /will take nothing nor speak cānot keepe his water\

RN At this tyme was taken in his bed strangly & cānot speak offreth to cast voydeth mutch waterish & reddish water. |did bleed at nose|

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 a rising vp ready to choake her voydeth vp flegme & blood & swoundeth often sinc last night about nine & cānot speake feb 2. ☿ h. 9 p m 163i |body swelled| /speachles\ /An Impost feared\ |neav^r had child|

RN quærit^r de Aloisia de causa morbi et an sit vitedis pater  filia novēber 15 ♂ h. 11 ant m 1608 /M^r Willoby did move the quest wheath^rit shall recover his speach\

GJ Elsabeth Hayes of Turvy 43 y Octob. 18 ♂ ho. 9. 50 a m. 1603. |wind in the stomacke.| A dry Cough An Itche and as it were a dry scurfe. Hath a Childe of 2 yeere old sucking on her, the childe very poore & will take nothing but the brest can neither go nor speake: borne the saturday fortnight after midsomer 1601 betwene 8 & 9 at night quiet in the day but very vnquiett all night. very cold, swelled in the body of late. the mother nunquā habuit menstrua since she had this child.

RN Goody Marcholl of Woulverton came to tell me howe her daughter was miserablely handled & cannot speake in her fits. 28 of feb. die ☿. h. 6. 15. 1599. sine consensu.

RN |1598.| Mater  Susan filia gravit^r ægrotante et loquela privata 14 Mart. die ♂.

RN William Tomkins \9 y cānot feed him selfe toucheth his hands & legs ev^r sinc Easter./ Francis Tomkins 17 y {sic} |7 y| a boye Marg. Tomkins 14. y.

Williā Tomkins was stroken suddenly. lame in all his lims & cā speake but a litle y^t on cā scarce vnderstand & when he goeth he rūneth as on y^t should light on his head all halloutyde the weddensday after Alhalloutyde was 4 y. hath bene thick of hearing a weeke & curst w^th all.

his right arme as stiffe as a stake came all to me at onc Iuly 25 h {sic} hor. 12. 40 p m 1629 All of thē p^rsent

RN Mres Vines took her sicknes at Piddington 30 of maye die ♂ h. betwixt 9. & 10 walking at night in her orcharde. & it tooke away her speache & brought a palsy in her side & armes. shee had no vse of her lims. 1598. die ♂ h. 9. 30 mi. p m maij 30. 1598.¹

RN Frauncis Marshall of Newport very strangly can scarce speake, only maketh signes for water to coole her her mouth is furred white w^th extreeme heate taketh her Drinke by a quill. first bound but y^t I gave her vnbound her nowe in a laske & extreeme hot & drye Decēb. 12. die ♂ h. 9. 30. mi ant m 1598. troubled in her sleepe.

s {sic} husband  vxore sine cōsensu