Casebooks

RN Mres Elizabeth Hale of Hexton 38 \37/ y febr 23 ♀ h. 3. 45 p m 16i6 extreme feeble & weak & cānot goe.

RN Iohn large 2 tyme taken Apr. 10 ♀ ♀ Ap 10. ♀ h. 3 p m 1607.

yesterday He swounded about 3 of the clocke as he was writing cometh w^th a quakinge.

had it nev^r before but these 2 tymes

RN Mary taken Oliver taken first Octob 6. ☾ h. 9. 30 p m 1606. w^th a swōding & quaking \cānot sit vp/

Mary Oliver of Cotton end first taken going out into her yard to make wat^r Octob 6. ☾ h. 9. 30 p m 1606.

RN Iane Grub. sodenly taken going to divine service Ian. 15. ♂ h. 9. ant m 1611. in novilunio./ /ceb|r|ebra laborat et debilitate/\¹

RN Nicholas the sp|h|ephead {sic} of Gothurst towne 22 y Dec Ian. 13. ♀ h. 10|9|. \30/ ant m. 1615 /very weake cānot goe nor stand.\

RN Isble freemā of Benson 40 y may 17 ♃ h. 6 p m. 1632. /head light cānot sleep quivereth & quaketh\

RN Alce Masun{n} of Woulverton 14 yeres old. took her vppō wendesay {sic} the 2i of febr: betwixt 2. & 1: shee nothinge but shaketh & soundeth as they think w^th an impostume. die ☿. 21. of feb. 1599. came her moth^r moved her quest. the 24 of feb die ♄. p m. 6. 38. 1599

RN Elis: nyster of {sic} 31 y of Horneton /Hornton\ Iune 20 ♃ h 5. p m 1633

her sicknes began a Wedd was a monthe about 4 in the morning may. 22 but sent to me Iune 20 ♃ h. 5 15 p m 1633 swounded then may 22

Iune 20 ♃ h. 5. 29 p m 1633 Dead palsy lame sorely tormented by fits

RN Annys Anne |a poor wench| /13 y\ of Southwick in Northāptonsheere by Owndall |M^r Lynn Esquire wrote in her behalfe| It tooke her 16. Ian 16 fell into her fits of convulsions swonding fits w^th quaking & trēbling Ian 30. ♃ h. 11 ant m 1634 taketh away her speach swoundeth convuls¹

RN Mres Tod of Cūberton. 24 y. Ma\r/ch 12 ♀ h. 6 {sic} \5. 5{0}/ p m 1630 |stomack weake lame frō her huckle{bone}/bone\ {sic} to h{er} heele & arme of the right sy{de}|

Mres Tod of Cūberton by Cābridg 3 ryiles {sic} sent March 12 ♀ h. 5. 50 p {sic} 1630

a bad stomack

witchery suspected by Goody Wode to whō she gave a peticoate. her mother & neighbous {sic} suspect it vehemently

sent me a wrought Cap

U[1628–30] Thomas write {illeg} was borne on \the next/ satterday at night after on michelmus was twelmounth, betweene a 11 or 12 at|or| i3, a Clock but cam to me at 1 of clock, y^e 14^th: of march 1630./

had a quiuorin & sounding on michelmus last & 3 Dayes the after y^e small pox & then at shroftide & this last night had 3 fitts after the same manner a boue saide, being y^e 13^th Day complaines on the head & heauie & apt to sleepe

RN Nathaniel Pyddington of Culewort 29 y a batch. Iuly. 22 ☾ h. 10 ant m 1633.

had an Ague & a cough the Ague is gone but the cough remeaneth spitteth mutch & riddeth ill stuffe & is hoarse w^th it & grown very weake & cānot goe

RN Iohn Scarlet of Neweport 60 y troubled w^th a dead palsie. w^ch taketh away his sight vse of tonge legs we{k}

RN Goody Gale for her Thomas Gostick a yere & a halfe old borne the weddensday after mysdsomer. sent Ian. 28 ♂ h. 11. ant m 1623.

It doth pyne & eate litle & doth not sper nor cānot goe it is so weake.

Elner Warner her next neighb. Elis Steaphinson who dwell boath togeath^r her mother hanged

cānot kepe his water.

RN Mres Dorothy Davers 13. Iuly 5. ♂ hor 3. 40. p m. 1603. hyps & hed canot stand faynt feeble stomacke.

RN M^r Will: Co{l|e|}lles Colles of Parke berrye of 58 troubled sick this i6 yeres & hath had the Counsell of the most exte phisitions troubled w^th a windy cause as he sayth cōming from his backe by a great heate & obstruction from my liver. also w^th a bad stomacke elevating winde into my hed. w^ch causeth gydines or streming in my head w^ch cometh as he thinketh by the ascending vp of bad & melancholy humours & w^th a shaking in my left hand mightely as it were the palsye but always very hotte. nowe of late w^th the brevity of wind in my stomacke & chest & lately w^th a mūmnes {sic} & tinckling in my hands. lips & sydes & face. this 15 of may. die ♂ h. 4. 45. p m. 1599.

RN S^r Rog. Poolyston came to cōfer w^th me touching his Palsy & convulsions & vertigo. having a lamenes in his left syde & weaknes in his legs Octob. 12. ☾ h. 2. 30. p m. 1618.

RN M^r William Chester was borne vppon Easter monday about 4 of the clock p m. this Child is f {sic} very small faynt feble of a longe visage hath not the vse of his lims but specially of his legs to goe natus āno dni 1596. 12 Apr. die ☾ h. 4 p m. 1596.

RN Mres Elisabeth Pots 40. of Charlegrave Martij 26. ♀ hor 1. 45. 50. p {sic}¹

RN fell sick on satt last betwixt 11 & 12. & is sorely payned & cānot hath no vse of his lims & cānot styr him selfe & swoundeth often