Casebooks

RN Agnys Kent of Moulsoe almost 5 quarters borne on Palme sonday last was twelfmonth about some {sic} rising sent to me May 14. ☿. h. 5. p m. 1628.

It is pyned & cōsumed belly hard & voydeth wormes living 6. wasteth in the body. was nurced by goody Keburne. goody Keburne came into another nurces house & would needes suckle it, wheath^r the nurce would or no & sinc mutch amys & it swounded twice to day belly very hard flesh quite wasted was not well tended by goody Keburne face swelled buttocke black & blewe. cānot stand vppon the lyms the child p^rsent w^th goody Alton of Moulsoe it did batle well vnder this nurce vntill goody Keburne her former nurce would suckle it force tooke some surfet.

RN & Also M^r Turbith y^e lord Spencers man. at that tyme cod swelled & harde.

M^r Turbith lord spencers mā. 30 y a batcheler. Iuly 2. h {sic} hor 2. 30 p m 1608 right stone swelled w^th a bruise as bigg as as {sic} a fist & hard.

RN May {sic} Nichols my serv for a har\r/d sore red swe{l}led leg Novēb 1 ♀ h. 9 30 ant m 1633

RN Thomas Whippā of Bletcheley 6 y old Ap. 30 die ☿ h. 9. 1600

great & harde bellyed & picketh the nose. belly ache.

RN Margaret mathew of Swelsoe a widow woman 50 y Decēb 20 ♃ hor 9. 2{illeg}|39|. ant m 1604.

her belly swelled vnto her navell very hard cōmeth vnto her in y^e maner of a stitche

RN Mres Leate sent her {sic} \a letter in the behalfe of her/ daughter Iane who hath for this twelfemonthe bene troubled w^th a swelling about her gr{y}|o|yne sometys appearing & sometyms not but gone first white & 2 months since burning red & hard almost as big as an egge

she layd to it a litle wax & butter & now & then a poultis of milke & a weddensday last was senet it broke about the 12 of Ap desyrous to have my counsell the 20^th of Apr h. 5. 30 pm 1620 It is broken & did run & voyd filthy \yellow/ stuffe

RN Wylliā Tomson of great Horwood 40 y Iuly 16. ♂ h. 3. 25. p. m. 16i6.

of a belly swelled hard like a festered boyle hard & sore would have it broken or to ease it

RN Goodmā Hues for a swelling in his neck behind & betwixt his shoulders hot & red yet hard of the bignes of a peny cake

U[1611–2] May. 16. d. ♃. ho. 8. ant. m. 16111

Isbel Hopkins was here before April. 25. April. 25. a hard swelling in her belly. to whome I only prescribed a mollifying pultis./

RN A poer boy of Northāpton sheere after an ague had a great big hard belly like an ague cake for a yers space growen to a tympany octob 21. ♂ h. 10. 20 ant m 1617

RN a monday last was 3 weekes in the evening on houre after sone set coming over the stile his leg. cracked so y^t he could not goe vppon it vntill he h{ar}d {sic} chased it well & could not rest. f {sic} Ian. 27 ☾ h. 5. 30 p m 1612: taken going over a steele. a great red swelling very hard. /he went to Brodwell about 3.\

RN Bridget Tary 23 y feareth a had {sic} swelling vnder her right syde least it should be an Impost \a bad stomacke/

RN Dye Right of Olny 35 \35/. y. had 2 child at on birth. a month sinc Iuly 3. h. 11 30 ant m 1630 |newly brought a bed of 2 child| /boath legs excedingly swelled white {marck} very hard\ /a hot rheume at her mouth & so scalding\

RN A wayting gentlewomā of my lady Barcley mutch troubled w^th the greene sicknes. & the swelling & hardnes of the spleene {O}|3| {sic} 30 y Octob. 6. h. 2. 30 p m. 1611.

RN mres Elis Andrewe of Winwick 20. y. May 8 ☿ h 4. 20. p m 1611. \neck swelled red & hard/

RN M^r Williā Adams Apr 5 ☿ h. 11. 45. ant m 1609

cod swelled hernia.

desyreth to confer w^th me & that I should write to M^r van Otten in his behalfe./

RN Bartholomeus Goodmā 27. y. maij {2}|1|8. die ☾|☉| ♄ {sic}. 7. ant m. 1600.

a sudden heate & swelling

RN Williā Oxe servāt to S^r Thomas Snag of Marsen 13. y. Sept 26. h {sic} hor 10 30 ant m 1612 body swelled very hard h {sic} almost a twlefemoneth.

RN M^r Wythers of Willing 46 y Aug. 19. ♀. h. 2. 39 p m 1625

troubled w^th a soft swelling into the wheath^r an Issue.

RN Iohn Risely of Rawnson sent onc againe to me for my counsell his pain lieth now in his Cods {w^c} are swollen as big as ons hed & as hard as a borde he was wont to haue them swollen very big but then lasted but 5 houres & nowe swelled ever sinc weddensday he cannot eate sleepe or goe to ground. troubled w^th the wind Cholicke a paine in his backe st{illeg}ry Desirous to take a stro{illeg} but Doubteth he ca shall be able Decēb. filius  patre cū consensu. Decēb 30. die ♄. h. 10. \9. 45./ 1598 his water cold red & thi{ck}