Casebooks

RN Mres Troughten sent her maydens wat^r by Iohn Byrd a sonday morning by 7 of the clocke. & I receaved vppō munday morning by 9

a stitch vnd^r her right syde.

RN yest taken w^th a cruell stitch on his left syde h. 9 ant m 1620

RN Thomas Hascot of Shenly 9. y. novēb 5. ☾ h 11. ant m 1632. |Casteth| /vryne mutch red & thick troubled w^th stitches\

RN Mres Ruly  filia q^æ valde egrotabat in a hot ague vomiteth mutch mutch fleume & corrupt matter & hath many sharpe stitches. Aprill 12 die ☿. h. 1. 45|0| m. post merid.. her child continued many weekes sicke. 6 or 7 wekes at lenght was well.

RN George Byrde 8 y Iune 13. h. 5. 30 p m. 1602. gryped in his belly & head his water leeke whey.

RN will for my mayd Doll for her sore stitch vnder her syde noveb 29 h {sic} hor 9 ant m 1623 /blood\

RN francis Warrell of Shenly. 26 y cane {sic} for a stitch vnder her right syde was let blood Ap 26. ☾ 8. 45 \30/ ant m 1624

RN Cosen Tyrlington for his wife feb 25 ♃ h. 7 p. m 1630

a gryping in her belly w^th a great loosnes¹

He sent me a barrle of oysters, & also a Ioale of sāmon

RN An Ashby of hanslop. 5 yeres. sick this forthnight cōplayneth of a stitche in the left syd Sept. 1. die ♄ h. 1. 1599 & belly

RN M^r Hill of Lydlington the high Constab. for a gerle Agnes Hill of 12 yeres with a sore greeping all over her bodye & especially about her hart & right syde & bottome of her belly. Ian. 8 die ♂ hor 9. 30 ant m. past knowledg almost & kryeth w^th the payne 1600.

RN Georg Steaphens of Tyddington 52 y feb 27 ♃ h. 12. 1623 the L Wentsworth Coo

sorely tormented w^th a bloody flix

back & belly mightely m {sic} griped¹

M^r Rollynson wrote for him

RN Henry Lambart of Warrin{illeg}|gton| \Warington/ 4 y novēb. 19 ☾ h. 8. 45 ant m 1632 /belly gryped worms feared sores fits tormented extremely in his belly\

RN on of Woulverton for his Daughter 17 y Decēb 21. ♃ h. 3. p m 1620 a stitch on her syde fallen downe on her legs y^t she cānot goe. swelled & sore

RN my Neece & lady Earsfild for her daughter 3 y March. 10 h {sic} hor 7 ant m 1632

\grpes {sic} in the pit of her stomacke belly & sydes/ a very hard belly worms suspected¹

Alooes mxed {sic} w^th rub did her no good

nor a bag {illeg}|o|f wormewood steeped in vineg w^th nutmeg applyed nor my oyntment of Savyn & wormewood

What I think of it & what may doe her good

RN Iohn Burton of Cosgrave for his disease a boy of 9 yeres old kept his bed ever sinc tuesday. voyded wormes payned in chest belly & hart a stitch vnd^r his right \side/ a very hie coloured youth w^th the vexation y^t was pale before. all swollen frō the face to the granes. made no water sinc thursday. at 25 of March. die ☉ h. 6: 8. p. m 1599

RN D Iames of Oxford st|ran|gly {sic} \straungly/ taken w^th a palsye on the left syde of the face hand & leg taken at church & great red blatches in t|H|is fac & bodye & his ey swelling & f|H|is face a yere before & sinc he contenting certen sup witches & on being acquitted he felt his strange stitch on his s {sic} left syde by fits he supposeth y^t the womā susp for a witch but quitted by the Iudges did hurte him the 24 of feb. ☾ sep a □ ♄ ap ☌ ♂ y^t night at sup first taken. had his first fit after he talked w^th m^r Rob. Conye. feb 18. in y^e after noone his first fit but his worst fit the 24 of feb when the sup witch was acquitted/

M^res Iames mentioned M^r Doctor Iames |of oxford| Ap. 20 ♃ h. 3. 20 p m. 1620 /she related all at this tyme/\

RN An Silvester of Hunsdon in Hartford sheere 42 y Iune 8 h {sic} hor 6 ant m 1633

strangly handled in her feete w^th pulling & gnawing her feete w^th extremity of payns & her hands pill all over & the tops wore away w^th the payne & did extremely vomyte at the first for 4 days 16 weekes. & had 2 child w^ch vomyted sorely & on child dyed & she cānot sit vp nor goe but as she she {sic} is caryed nor cānot abyde any to touch her hands & feete & are extreme hot

vryne very good Iune 8. h {sic}. hor 6 ant m 1633. /h. 7. 30 ant m 1633\

Iune 8 h {sic} hor 6. ant m 1633.