Casebooks

RN Edward Child of Silsoe taken on the 17 of Apr ☿. about 6 \30/ in the morning {A} {sic} 1611. strangly taken & doth {m}

RN Edward Child lyeth very strangly handled. as on y^t were bewitched stragling biting catching & sighing 2 y. old Iune 11. ♂ h. 8 38. ant m 1611.

RN Iohn Goldsbborow the gradchild {sic} to S^r Iohn Robart Pean Pain of Sowthoe 4 y suddenly & strangly taken Octob 25 ♄ hor. 10 ant m 1628

RN The eldest Will: Lewys of Henly vppon Tems 15 y Ian 25 ☿ h. 1. 40 p m 1626 h. 2. p {sic}

Rob. Lewys 11 y {lat}. 8 weeks

Sam. Lewys {illeg}|t|his day a weeke.

all in leake maner w^th st{ran}ge convulsions months & crye hereof.

RN a boy of a yere old goody Swinshheds child of Donstable march. 28 ♃. h. 2. 45 p m 1611. |vnquiet|

strangly taken quærit wheather taken & will live

RN Iohn Web. of Woullyson 12 y brought to me to see in his strang fits Ap 25. ☉ h. 3. 20 p m. 1613. |here in p^rsenc|

RN M^r Pow my L. Purbecks serv: for his frinds child octob 16 ♃ h. 6 p m 1623

The child borne a yere old. Convuls.

Iohn Rainte was borne miklemas was twelfmonth on miklemas Day last was twelfmonth h 4 p m. 1622 strangly handled

Iohn Raunt of London a yere old last miklemas troubled w^th convulsi{ons} octob 16 ♃ h. 6 p m 1{623}

M^r Pue my lord Purbe{ecks} serv: for this child

RN M^r Iohn Iohnson of g|G|reat Ford 21 y \a batch/ Ian 31. ☾ h. 6. p m 1625.

natus Ap 11 ☿ the 2 y of his matyes raigne 1604 h. 4 p m. 1604

strangly handled & hath had 3 sev. fits the first decēb. 12. & cōtinued vntill the 18 of the same 2 Ian first & cōtinued vntill the 9 of the same the 3^d fit Ian 21. & nowe reasonable well sine Consensu /pater  filio sine consensu\

RN Thomas Nichols \of litle Linford/ taken very strangly in his belly novēb 25. ☉ h. 3. p m 1632 |13 y|

RN Henry Hazlewood 11 wee{kes} old strangly handled & lyeth dead 3 o{r} 4 tyms a day w{^th} convulsions feb. 2{8} ♂ h. 11 ant m 16{32}

RN Th. Hadyn of Dedington 2 y Iuly 20 {illeg} Iuly 18 ♀ h. 10 ant m 1628 dyed strangly. on sonday of an Impostume & a great bunch.

RN a young mā of Bothon in Huntington shire 26 y was brought sine cōsensu feb r 20. ☿ h. 2. 45. p m. 1605. strangly tormented by witchraft sinc shreve{illeg}|tue|sday Shelton the witch in prison¹

RN my lady Mydleton her husb. water sine consensu octob. 16: ☾ h. 7. ant m 1620.

S^r Thomas taken w^th a strang fit & passion of the splene & stone octob. 15. ☉ h. 10. \9. 30/ p m. 1620.¹

RN feb. 4 his wife his boy & his child strangly taken w^th vomyting feb. 4. h. 3. p m 1633. /the gearle dyed about y^t tyme\

RN Iohn Windmill of Yardly Gubbin a twelmoneth old & as mutch as candelmas the sunday after candlemas. came & brought her Child y^t was payned in the body & had divers fi strange fits. but before it tooke it had a fit of an ague before it. not v this beating & panting began on friday night w^th a quivering & shakings of the belly & armes Apr. 10. die ♂ h. 7. ant m. 1599 goeth had|r|d to grounde cryeth

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