Casebooks

RN Phylip Bastocke of Stony stratford 19 y Iuly. 20 ♂ hor. 9 ant m. 1602.

Lettice Bostock her mother. 55 y at the same tyme gryped in her belly shortwynded.

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 Em Rodwell of Kempson 15 y. Ap 11 die ♀ h. 8. 50. ant m. 1600

pricked & vexed all over her bodye in her body left syde & thigh.

cannot turne her in her bede

Mary Chamberlin of Kempson 17. or 18 y. Apr 11 die ♀ h. 8. 50 ant m. troubled w^th a swounding twce {sic} a weeke. head. chest.

seemeth to be in love

RN Agnes Smithe of 13 yeres old at last mikelmas it tooke her {9} of novemb. w^th a gydines in her hed & hart & so ceme Downe to her h {sic} belly hard came for my counsell this 27 of November 1598 die ☾ h. 8. 49. mi. ant m. mater cū filia quærit

RN Mres Margary Deyrell of lillingstone Deyrell. 45 y. may 24 die ♄. {v} 12. 20. 45. p m. 1600 for a great payne vnder her right syde & a thinge leek a widge in her stomack faynt & feeble a swelling of her liver as it is told her.

RN Elisabeth Becham of Astwood 29 y may 17 die ♄ h. 4. p m. 1600 |& Alce Tingswick. for the moth^r & wind cholick:|

RN Elisabeth. Freman 50 y. at higha in northapton sheere & a wenche y^t bordeth w^th her. at her. howse of 17 y. Apr. 22. die ☿. at 2. p 15. p m. 1601¹

RN Katherine Grene /25\ first taken w^th \it tooke/ an arising frō her stomack ready to stop her wynd Martij 7. ☿ h. 11. p m 162i |is so sick y^t she cā take no rest.|

It tooke her in her hart & left sy right & short ribs pricking like needles. |suckleth a child halfe a yere old|

RN Katheron Ocklie of Turvie 60 y. payned in her legs & bodye w^ch are mightely swollen & a payne in her cheste w^th a cold. Doth spit blood also feb. 2 die ♄. h. 12. Thomas Burges \of Astwood/ 50 yeres for a great cough & payne in the chest very short winded. 1600¹

the womans wat^r is very red & thick Mary Burges troubled about the hart w^th a coughinge her wat^r hath black melancholy humour. her husb & ss troubled w^th a cough.

RN M^r {sic} Charels Tutcher Charles at Stonystratford at the swan of 2 neckes. 45. sick this fortnight. sonewhat {sic} Costive shee doth bleede & is very mutch stuffed in her chest can scarce tak her winde. ready to sound a grosse & fat woman. sent a poer woman. Ian. 3. die ☿. h. 12. 9. mi. 1599. \at 1. p m /|twice & thrice a day bleedeth at y^e nose. half a pint at a time \every oth^r daye/|

Charels Touchers wife hath not had her termes this 6 yeres her stomack hoven & her hed ill & backe her wombe & chest stuffed short winded. hart ill water good. yellowe but thin. taken a greefe for payment of monyes for her husb. brother for s{ur}tiship. 200^li

RN the lady Compton & her gentlewomā Mres savell wer leet {sic} blood the lady in her right foote the gentlewoman in her right arme. the ladyes blood good the gentl black thick melancholy for her splene & hed ach cōtinuall. octob. 26 ♀ h. 9. ant m 16i0.

RN Receaved a lett^r the lady Mytton Iuly 20 ♀ h. 6 30 p m 1627 hath casted 3 weekes. would have a playster for the spleene

sent her things agaynst next fryday.

Mres mytton \my Cosen magd myt{ton}/ sent Iuly 20 ♀ h: 7 40 p m 1627

hath casteth 3 weekes Craveth my Consell & also a playst for y^e spleene

RN Deborah. Williams of old Stratford 11 y Iune 11. ♀ h. 8 15 ant m 1619 a great stitch \on the right syde/ & like a hard bunch w^ch fell downe a yere sinc after an ague. & groweth bigger & bigger downe to the belly. & belly hard so two yeres./

RN Mary Knight of Newport 12 yeres old at Easter Deafe this 8 yeres. for 4 yeres well. hearethe very hardly & at some times heareth better thē other her eares run & then shee heareth best shee came w^th her mother this 12 of Decēb^r die ♂ h. 10 12. 39. 1598. of a very pale Colour. a drye huske & a bad stomack breaketh & {illeg}|out &| looketh ill.

RN Ione Coast of Marsten 8 75. y feb. 21. die ♄ hor. 1: p m. 1601 payned in her hed & eyes ca scarse see.

Alce Wheeler of Cranfild 23. y. d|f|eb. 21. die ♄ hor. 1. p. m. 1601 in her armes & legs cannot styrre. backe.

RN Two of women of Bedford on for a great Hoarsnes Ian {illeg}|1|0 ♃ h. 12. 30 p m. 1622.

Elis Abbat of Bedford for her long hoarsnes. Ian. 10 ♃ h. 12. 45 p m 1622.

Thother for a great cough & bad longues now also for legs & arms y^t have no feeling.

RN Isbell Windmill of brodwell pinched & greped in the belly th w^ch shee taketh to be by wormes 65. p m Decēb. 29 die ♄ h. 4. p m. 1599 a gnawing vnder her hart & her navell

RN febr. 2i die ♃ h. 12. 30. y {sic} Mres Ellet of brockborow parke M^res Middeltons sist^r 3|4|3 y. sick sinc Christide of the stone in the bl|a|ck & kidneys. & voyded red gravell & troubled w^th the windines of the stomack & a wonderfull rheume salt & bitter a fat woman & mutch pinched about the harte. 1600

RN Mary Kerbye of vpton in Huntington sheere 28 y vnmyed {sic} may 24 ♂ h. 1. 30 p m 1625. /a wyndy stomack & ach in her left syde. lame w^th it 3 months\

RN The Lady Neavell of Leycester 63|4| y Decēb 17. ☿ h. 6 p m 1623.

Wheath^r good to vse scurvy grasse/ her Daught^r Mres Kays not somutch troubled w^th melanch as before but yet still troubled w^th wynd & payne in her stomacke/