Casebooks

RN Mres Elis: Reare of Easton 20 y novēb 2. ☿ h. 4|5| 3 p m 1608

The lady zancher for a sad pensive harte. & melanch. & purples in her bodye./

The lady Staffard for heare fallen & piling eyes red hands & melancholy

The lady Dormer farmer a soden feare after her sleepe a trembling.

RN Agnys Write of Arklebery 12 y lay the sonday after last Christmas h 8 3 9. 30 p m nata but her father sent for her & sayth y^t on strooke her by the way like a man in a shadow at night & cryed out but noe mā could be seene & sick sinc it every d|o|ther day & will eate litle & talke fondly

RN Alce Emmerton of whaddon \50 y/ novēb. 13 ☿ 10. 45. ant m. 1611. troubled in mynd brayne lightish troubled w^th wynd & melancholy.

RN An Smyth of Stony stratford 30 y mayed {sic} feb. 20 h {sic} hor 3. p m. 1619. 12 days sick. lyeth like a Chisone {sic} child all the day & always at night behave her selfe like a bedlome & hath in her mad fits cut of a great peece of her tongue cānot sleepe these 12 days but lyeth broad awake

U[1628–31] Sara Ireland of wooburne. y. 22. d ♄. Nouemb: 15 h: 10 30 ant: m: 1628. brought in bed about a moneth since. mopish. eateth little can not sleepe.

RN An Rūbell of Bullingf

An Rūble of Buntingford 25 y y {sic} newly brought a bed a fortnight sinc octob 5. ♀ h. 5. p m 1632.

a great trēbling & panting at her hart mynd troubled w^th fantas. for want of sleepe delivered of a boy on weddensday was fortnight h. 1 at night cā take no rest melancholick

An Rūble of Buntinford 25 y octob. 5 ♀ h. 5. 25 p m 1632

lately brought a bed a trēbling & a panting at the harte cānot sleepe melancholick

RN Ione Sparke of Blund|h|am maried hath 5 child 40. y. Octob 6. ♄ hor 6 40. ant m. 1604. brought a bed 9 days sinc & was well. & now was ill & raveth & rageth & speaketh foundly & cā take no sleepe

RN Elis knight \of newp/ ill in her hed & mynd 40 y Aug 21. ☿ h. 9 50 ant m. 1611 /troubled w^th waxed kernels\

RN An Clarke of Adstock 67 y decēb. 5 ☉ h. 3 p m. 1624 a wedd next at night 5 weekes Dreamed in the night & was at her waking in a trance her {illeg}|s|ight & sences fayling her & is redy to sink away sodenly by fits in her sight & sences & swȳing of her brayne offreth to cast & to goe to stoole but cānot

RN Alce Kent. 25 Ap. die ☿ h. 1. p m. 1599.

Alce Kent of Walton. 2i. miklemas. sick at her hart w^th a quaking & a trembling. & hath taken greefe w^th a Child of hers y^t was burnd in the face & cannot be healed. b{ut} pineth & cōsumeth Apr. 25 die ☿ h. 12. 55. 1599.

RN Mres Mathew of Hanslop 70 y Ian 10. ♀ h. 12. 1611 {sic} |1612.| troubled in mynd not sick yet costive. 1612

RN Mary Durand 36 y a mayd mach {sic} 24 h {sic} hor 1. 30 p m 1632 mopish goeth vp & downe |her head mopish|

RN The lady Hazlewoode of Meadwell 25. y Ian. 5 ♂ h. 3. 36 p m 1630

The Lady Hazlewood of Meadewell 26 y Ian 5 ♂ h. 4. p m 1630

was formerly Amended as her husb the knight wrote but now relapsed into her forner {sic} solitarynes & melanch. w^th fasting & watching

RN Maud Richardson of ShuttleAnger stoack parish 18 y martij 8 ♃ hor 11. 30 ant m 1604 a poer wench fatherles head very light cānot sleepe ever sinc weddensdy last was fortnight.

RN Ellen Triploe of litle Paxon 48 y octob. 21. ♂ h. 3. 40 p m 1617

starteth & skryketh & sayth sometymes y^t she shalbe drowned & sometȳes burned w^th many idle speaches ill 4 days by fits. slept neaver a whit last night.

is distracted pulleth & snatcheth

vide Octob 11.

tooke greefe y^t her son did mary agaynst her will yet she gave her consent mutch agaȳst her will wished y^t she might see him buryed. husb. sine cōsensu

RN Sara musgrove \of/ Bletsoe 20 y maryed 2 y. march. 29. ♀ h. 12 20 p m. 1605. troubled w^th fancyes very fearfull in her mynd to loose her wits troubled in her sleepe cānot rest metuit veneficiū full of melanch cholicke

RN Mres Iohan Præscot of Holborne 54 y march 9 ♂ h. 9 ant m. 1624. still mutch plexed in mynd & still payned in her head /℞ to write to her by the next Caryer./\

RN Elis Cocken of Newp. first strangly & sodenly taken on holy thursday 26 y Iuli may 30 ♃ h. 5 p m 1622 Iane Goodmā craved Drink & she gave it to this Iane & it p^rsently tooke her & sinc neaver well but mutch tēpted & troubled w^th wynd¹

RN Francis Cooke of Northāpton feb 23 a wench. ♀ h. 10. 15 p m 1627. now 4 y. old. almost a moh|n|th {sic} \month/ sick

now hath an Ague lips very sore & broken out. dull heavy no ioy of any thing eateth litle, sleepeth not quietly. vryne cold red thick temp. & hath bene laxative vryne warned mutch better in colour./ feb 8 ☾ {sic} h 2 p m. 163i.

RN francis dorrington 19 y Ap 24. ♀ h. 6. 15 ant m 1607 a gentlewomā subiect to many melancholy passions swodings {sic} mother |lighte headed./|