Casebooks

RN mres Norwood of Astwood. 40 y may. 20 ☾ h. 6 p m 16i6. troubled w^th mutch melancholie. / & heavynes stomack full. & hath no appetite & l {sic} careth not to eate any meale. & cānot sleepe & groweth light headed.

RN Margaret Page of Lathbury 35 yeres old. shee lieth in & was delivered of a child 3 weekes since wilbe muday {sic} next. shee lacketh her milk & can scarce digest her meate shee feareth lest shee is ill bespoken. shee hath had many losses of cattell &{c} Octob. 13. die ♀ h. 11. 15. 1598.

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 Mres Mary Price of Warrick sheere August. 23. ☾ hor 1. 38. p m. 1602. 44|6| y. /very weake stomached.\

RN Mres katheron longvild can eate nothing stomacke full 23 y Ian xij ♂ hor. 10. 30 ant m. 1602.

RN The ladye freemās gentlewomā. at this time cānot take her drink but casteth it. no amendmēt.

RN Mres Mathew of Broden for her sone & hayre M^r Iohn mathew 8 yers old in cleare Lent the first sonday

subiect to melancholy he {illeg} sleepeth mutch & seemeth to be aguish subiect to melancholy \delighteth in nothing/ will t {sic} no stomack Aguish

RN my lady Dentons mans wife maij 8 ☿ h. 12. 10. 12. ant m 1605. |Margaret Wincot 44 y|

hath taken her selfe to be w^th child sinc twelfetyde to Easter. but hath had a great many of her sicknesses & doe follow her ever since but she is as big as if shee were w^th child & shee thincketh y^t shee feeleth something styrr as if shee were w^th child. very sick frō 3 in y^e morning to 2 in y^e aft^r noone y^t she cā take no rest. neith^r a bed nor vp.

shee maketh & laboureth sometymes to vomite but brin{k}|g|eth vp nothing but wat^r eateth nothing but breath. shee is very dry.

Margaret wyncot 44 y. maij 8 ☿ h. 10. 12 ant m 1605.

RN Elis Ienings of London hath taken her vomyt & dyet drink w^ch wroght well w^th her. yet looketh pale & hath not her floures cānot eate flesh & yet hath a good stomack craveth my Directiōs vppon Monday next Iune 26 ♃ h. 4. 39 p m 1628

RN Kate Rive 16 y of Great Linf nev^r had her womans sicknes. payned neck y^t shee cannot swallowe backe Costive feb. 18. die ☾ h. 7 ant m. 1600

RN maryon web 20 y Iuly 12. ♃. hor. 9. 30 ant m 1604.

faynt & feeble. stomacke. can not eate any thing

RN M^res Katheron Honsdon M^r Gascoynes sister y. 22. cannot Digest her meate gnowen about the harte as it were w^th chest wormes. maried a fortnight afore miklemas. febr. 19 die ♂ ♄ {sic}. 1. 15 p m. 1600 /of Woulverton\

RN Goody nuemā of fardingoe thre mils frō Banberye. 4{illeg}|6| y Sept 5. ☾. h. 3. 20 p m. 1608. amys a longe tyme troubled in her stomacke cānot Digest any meate but Doth cast her meate aft^r shee hath eaten it or els fyndeth no ease Doth keepe her bed./ they doe watch her.

RN my Lady Tyrle desyred me y^t I would come to her out of hand march 3 ♂ h. 9. 30 ant m 1618. soundeth often /eateth mutch this month\ |stopped w^th flegme. Impostume feared.|

RN Alce Clark of C{au}cot by Hyemsfe{ryes} 44 y Aug 28 {♂} h. 12. 25 p m 1{627} /cā eate & drink litle gryped in her {sic} her stomake.\

RN Goody Coo \of newport/ 40 y. Iune 1. ♀ h. 8 ant m 16i0.

every where./ cānot rellish any water.

Thomas Wythers of newport 3 quarters old Iune 1. ♀ h. 8 ant m 16i0

a great cold extreeme sick cā eate or take any thing

Goody Coo quærit an sit gravida cānot rellish anye thinge. ill this moneth.

SRN My Cozon Clare wright of Southwarke London. 50. y. Decemƀ 21. ♄ {sic}. h. 11. a. m. 1634.

hath kept her bed this sennight a weake bad digestion. her meate rises sometymes like hard egs w^ch causes a great payne both in stomack & backe.

she can eate little or nothing she desires to haue something to strengthen her stomack. /much troubled with a stitch in her right side with a continuall payne in her stomack.\

RN Ihone Hull of Newport of 46 yees {sic} for the rising of her & greeping of her hart by fits shee hath had it a longe time: somewhat leek an impost ready to stop her wind & can hardly swallowe her spittle. Octob 5. die ♃. h. 3. {illeg}|5|0. p m. 1598. arising leeke the mother.

RN Amy Ringe of Cranfield of 27. vnmarid. hath a great paine in her backe harte. & no digestion & Doth every day cast vp her meate. hard bound in her bodye. this fortnight. hath not had her Courses kindly not at any time May 5. die ♄ h. 1. 30. p m. 1599.

RN Agnys Thorneton 40 \38/ y of Eckton Novemb 29 ☾ hor. 12. 30 p m 1602. {mi}|Wo|nderfully tormented in her throate cānot swallowe any thinge ioyntꝭ ill shoulder & head as if it would pull her in peeces. & yet not harte sicke. suspect some to have done her harme on of them was hanged & thoth^r in northāpton geale Alce Smyth thought to have done all the mischiefe who is nowe in pryson. ever sinc whitsontyde