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./

GJ Elsabeth Hayes of Turvy 43 y Octob. 18 ♂ ho. 9. 50 a m. 1603. |wind in the stomacke.| A dry Cough An Itche and as it were a dry scurfe. Hath a Childe of 2 yeere old sucking on her, the childe very poore & will take nothing but the brest can neither go nor speake: borne the saturday fortnight after midsomer 1601 betwene 8 & 9 at night quiet in the day but very vnquiett all night. very cold, swelled in the body of late. the mother nunquā habuit menstrua since she had this child.

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 Agnes Purryer of Cranfield 15 y. Octob. 17 ☾ ho. 3. 30 p. m. 1603

One walter Hooton m^r Androwes man of Lathbury beaten her that she is sore over her whole body. very faynt & ready many times to swound digestꝭ nothing. He put a hempen halter about her shoulder. /

GJ Elsabeth Radford of North Crowley 18 y. Octob. 18 ♂ ho. 8. 45 a m. 1603 payne in her head and stomacke shortwynded and faynt

nunquā habuit menstrua

greene sickenes /the caryers maid\

GJ Lettice Ball of Nash 17 y Apr. 18. ☾ ho 11. 45 a m 1603. Quærit whether any evill tongue have power over her. Cannot sleepe is light headed & sometymes talkꝭ Idly

GJ Agnes Windmill of Hanslop 30 y Maij 13 ♀ ho 1. p m. 1603

her backe and stomacke \payned/ and the right Cheeke is swelled that she cannot scarce take any thing it greeves her to putt a spoone in her mouth

GJ Elsabeth Morgan of Lawndon 40 y. Septemb. j. ♃ ho 10 36 a m. 1603

GJ Ellen Weed of Brafield on the greene 40 y. maried Sept. 2j ☿ ho. 1. 45 p m Hath bene ill these ij yeers sicke in her stomacke and paynfull in her body her body heaves sometyms as if she were w^th Child and falles agayne

GJ Ioane Fisher of Stonystratford 23 y. Octob j. ♄ ho 1. 45 p m. 1603

A great payne in her backe

menses obstructi these 2 or 3 yeeres

Thomas Colyns a malsters mayde

Ill many tymes in her stomacke sometymes ready to swound

GJ Dorothy Piggott of Lenborough 22 y. almost a yeere maried Faynt and weake a payne in her backe and rising in her stomack

quærit vtꝝ sit gravida

GJ Anne Raynoldꝭ \Field/ of North Crowly 22 y. Aug. 7 ♂ ho 9 a m. 1604 Teeth ake, gūmes swelled payne in the head and eyes /

GJ Elsabeth Harrys of Padbury 32 y. May 4 ☿ ho. 8 a m. 1603

Troubled in mynde and fearfull that God will punish her.

GJ Goodwif Tomson of Stonistratford Saunsoms sister sent for oyle of Exceter or of swallowes. March 4 ☾ ho. 11. a m. 1605

extreeme ache w^ch makes her cry that she is heard all over the street ex morbo gallic

GJ Elisabeth Iakes of Luton ish Stopesly. 23. y. Feb. 21 ☾ ho. 11 1 10 p. m 1603 vnmaried

GJ Isabell Dormer of Wolverton 33 y. March 13. ☉ ho 1. 45 p m.

GJ M^rs Anne Foster of Hanslop 26 y {m}|A|pr. 15 ♀ ho. 11 a m. 1603. maried 3 weekꝭ before Christmas. |a white thickish water.|

Had them not these 2 moneths a payne in her stomacke and in her backe.

GJ Alice woodward of Stoke Ham̄on. 33 y. maried Apr. 15 ♀ ho 11. 40 a m. 1603

Hath not had her courses this x weekꝭ quærit vtrū sit gravida. a payne at her hart, swelled in her body & Ioyntꝭ.

GJ Mary Gilbert of Broughton 23 y maried 3 y. never had Children May 9. ☾ ho 8 a m. 1603

She lay speechles 24 houres |last week| very weake keepes her bed a thicke high coloured water Her belly swelled thinkes her self to be w^th Child

GJ Elsabeth Perry of Paulus perry. 41 y. Maij 24 ♂ ho 10 a m. 1603