Casebooks

RN Agnys Olny 38 y of Tebworthe in Chalgrave maij 19. ☿ hor. 9. 45. ant m. 1602. /maritus  vxore furiosa et insaniētē sencles hath no vse of her wits. h {sic} light headed\ /a frenticke woman mad & laugh & inc mistermeth.\

RN Rich: Lucas of G Nortot a yeomans sonne 30 27 of Ap 27. 1595. about 12. ☉ at noone sent march. 3. ☿ h. 5. 39 p m. 1624. /mayed {sic} 2 yeres. on child a twelfmoth {sic} old\

3 quart of a yere ill in his head mynd braye {sic} & head troubled mopish & fe{l} careles of his busynes. |Worst at the full of y^e moone 3 days before or after/|

boath the fathers obst{in}at of & on in y^ere maage {sic} pater sine cōsensu. et vxor cū Consensu sed nō filius wheath^r they should bring him heather.

RN Dorothy Cup of Stachdon {4}|3|4 y Iune 26 ♀|♂| h. 2. 25. p m 16i0 ty in p^rsence.¹

RN Rich: Cowly of Tinswicke 30 y Apr. 30 y a batch Apr ♂ h. 9 ant m 1605.¹

RN An Southā of Croaton 33 y May 10 h {sic} hor 10 25 ant m 1623 light headed & vnruly & idle talke & is very furious cānot abyd any prayer to be sayd by her worse when she is bound |would murder her selfe maritus  vxore|

RN Will Iereland of Dustable 30 y Iune 24 ☾ h. 1. 39 p m 1633 /head light nynd {sic} troubled talketh idlely\

RN Elis fox of Shenly 36|4|. Iuly 6. die ☾ hor. 1 p m. 160i

taken w^th a feare in a wood thinking shee hard a voice ever sinc out of her wits.

RN Alce lelā of Brixworth. 33 y septēb vj. h. 3. 30. p m husb sent to me agayne may 24 ♄ hor. 9. 45. ant m. 1606.

hart hole but brayne distēp wits & sences gone

RN Henry Far of WavendonIa 32 y Ian 24 ☉ h. 4. 40|5| ant m 1619. extreme ill in his hed knoweth not what he taketh {sic}.

RN M^r Michal|e|ll Coales |30 y| /a batch\ of Bary\se/swell Barkeswell by Coventry may 25 ☿ h. 11. ant m 163i /long troubled w^th mopish & sottish melancholy\

RN florenc Billin of Halston 3 miles beyond Northāpton Decēb 11. ☿ h. 5 p m 1594 but came to me feb. 28 ♂ h. 4. 20 p m. 1632. /Desp. of gods mercy.\ /M^r Morly a minister wrote in her behalfe.\¹

RN Millers 1598 Iul. 14. die ♀ h. 7. mi. 12. 45 m. Thomas Richardson for his wife. to know what wilbe her end. about 30 yeres old. shee suspecteth shee hath bene bewitched light headed & talketh mutch of the devill shee can not speake sometimes in her fit letteth out her excrementꝭ.

RN Eliz: West of Hiempferyes 38 y novēb. 4 ☾ h. 1. p m 16i6 /sine consensu.\ |taken w^th a dead palsy. light headen.| |convulsions eyther laugfest or weepeth in her good senc speach taken away|¹

RN Edmund Wootton of sawcy forest 30 y May 27. h {sic} hor. 4. p m. 1609 |p mer vxor  marito lunatico soror  fratre. sine consensu./|¹²

RN Sara Musgrave 32 y. Aug 7 ♃ h. 2. p m. 1617 /her husb came for a S mised\ |is locked every night to his {sic} bed.|¹

RN Georg Cockin of newp. 31. y mayed {sic} Decēb: 20: ☿ h. 12. 1620

16. y. troubled in mynd & discontented

raging

RN Margaret Burtchmore of hanslop. 30 y. maij 12. die ☾ 11 {sic} 10. 3 45 ant m. 1600 sencles & sayth but yea & noe

RN An Cloude of Newport 35 yeres old sickned the 12 of Decemb came to me the 20 of decēb. die ☿ h. 1. 50. 1598. maritꝯ  vxore. fell into a traunc vppon satterd night & so continued vntill sunday night & revived again

RN Mary Gunthrop of Woulverton 30 y Deceb 21. ☾ hor. 2. p m. 160i

greefe Discontentment w^th her husband

RN Isaack Iosias Costard of Bledloe 34 y Iune 26. ♂ h. 1. 15 p m 16i0 /sine cōsensu.\¹