Casebooks

GJ Alice Lord of Kempson 25 y. May 5 ♃ ho. 10 30 a m. 1603

Keepeth her bed, trembles very much, A great payne in her backe her right hand and right arme swelled. Cryes of her bones and every where about in great payne./

RW Robart Greene of Raunson. y. 17. d. ♀ h: 9. 20 ant m Feb: 25: 1620.

head full of bleach: & so is his bodie w^ch healeth sometimes, & then breaketh out: eateth his meate well & goeth to the stoole orderly

RW Susan Billings mayd \Ellen/ of Lillingston y. 26. d. ♄ h: 0. 35. p: m: Feb: 26 1620. stomacho grauata, tergo et humeris;

RW Elizabeth Bradshow of woodstocke. {y}. 11. d. ♀ h: 0. 25 p:m: Aprill. 28. 1620. a sore cheeke, w^ch is verie hard to {hea}le; when it is healed, then her head {bre}aketh out: hath done so these 8 or 9 yeres. RN |she was p^rsent. 7 yeres ill. a p^rty sclender wench.| RW

SRN Marian Phelp of Blechly 40. y Septemƀ. 11. ♀ h. 10. a. m. 1635

Much payned in her chest & at her heart very shortwynded swelld & howen in her face hands & Body

\vomitts what she taketh/ hath not bin well since it thunderd & lightend when she came from Stoke goldinge on th{e} Sunday y^t it lightend & thunde{red} so much.

it first tooke her w^th sorenes in her throate

body Costiue. Vryne very thin & frothy, & cleere. hath bin married these 9. y. no child.

GJ Robert Russell of great Brickhi{ll} 35 y. Decemb. 4 ♂ ho. 8. 20 a m 1604

A payne at his hart and stomake liver and longꝭ shortwynded some part of his stoole very hard & some t loose.

GJ Agnes Smith of Tickford 32 y Aprill 7. ♃ ho. 11. 50 a m. 1608

A Child a yeere old at Christmas She hath bene full of lamen{illeg}|e|s and ache this moneth Hucklebone and goes downe to her anckles & toes on the right side.

GJ Anne Broughton of Haversham 34 y Iunij 5 ☉ ho. 1. 30 p. m. 1608

The morphew over all her body, had it these 4 yeeres.

RW Iames West of Banbury {y}. 45. d. ♂ h: 6. ant: merid: {S}ept: 25. 1621. extreamely {to}rtured in his backe, belly & {sid}es with paine. his stomacke {ve}rie hot & windie

TG Mary longstaff of La{illeg}|t|hbury. affectu uterino laborans et febri stomacho, capite et membrorum doloribus.¹

TG Sara Bishop of tringe Annos 31. calebs melancholica, dolore capitis cervicis, lateris dextri et stomachi adeo mentis gravedine vexata

GJ Susan Read of Chicheley 31 y. Iuly 9 ♄ ho 3. 10 p. m. 1603

A great pulling in her belly pitt of her stomacke and back non habet menstrua.

GJ Elsabeth Chester. of Olney 17 y Decemb. 28 ♂ ho 2. p m. a breaking out in her leggꝭ and itching over her hole body

Tho: Cleark of Bedford Houghton Seru: to S^r. Francis Clearke. 20. y. Novēb. 5. ♀. h. 12. 30. p m. 1630

a great Ach in his Hucklebone, Loines, & small ribbs for a yeare

GJ Anne Eastwick of milton Briant 26 y. Ianuary 17 ♀ ho. 4 15 p. m. 1606 Payne in her head and stomacke & hart had them not these 5 weekꝭ. quærit vtꝝ se gravida

RW Iohn Peckauer of Brackley. y. 38. d. ♄ h: 10. {illeg}|4|0. ant: m: Feb: 26. 1620.

swelleth in her face chest & legs for a moneth. sicke euer since Christmasse

RW Henry Eustane of Chinner. y: 28. d. ☿. h: 11. ant: m: Maij. 2. 1627. ill 4 weeks /a great payne runneth vp & downe into his back belly & sometimes into his legs.\

Iohn Headsman of Earles Barton 21. y. febr. 25. ♀. h. 1. 10. p m 1631 |married|

complayneth of his back, head & stomack, subiect to melancholy for a weeke

RW Clement Rulie d. ♀. h: 9. 25. p: mer: Feb: 1. 1622. taken suddenly w^th a riseing in \her/ stomacke w^ch is readie to stop her winde: her hands cold; highe coloured in her face & swetteth: hath a heate in her bodie

GJ Anne Gascoigne of Broughton 34 y Febr. 23 ☿ ho 8. 30 a m. 1603. RN |maried| /a stitch vnd^r her left syde & hart\ GJ