Casebooks

RN M^r Vincēt Goddard came to me march 28 ♃ h. 4. 38 p m 1605.

mopish

I set this for m^r Goddard aft^rward.

M^r Goddard talked w^th me touching his sonne & his fits halfe an houre be 12. {sic}

RN may 23 taken agayne in a cold tranc y^t every body thought he would then dy his worst fit ☾ h may 23 ☾ h. 4. ant m 1614

RN Alce Knight of newp 18 f|y| feb 14. ☿ h. 13 ♂ h. 10 10 30 ant m 1621 sudenly taken w^th skyking fits cry & take on grevously /this was the third tyme troubled w^th the kings evill.\

RN M^r Wyndgate May 20 ♀ h. 11 ant m 1625 idle headed cānot sleepe

RN S^r Th. Tyringhā sent t{o} me to know what I think of his Daughte{rs} strang fits of skriking n{ovē b} 6 ☉ h. 3. p m 163{1} /|nō| sine cōsensu.\

RN Marian Greene of Maninford 43 y feb 10 ☉ h 8 ant m 1633

taken w^th an epilepticall fit

RN Decēb 22. ☉ h. 2. 40|5| p m 1622 swounded & fomed & his mouth Drawen backward. & at night had another fit & this swounded 4 tymes yesterd daye

RN francis Revening of Barcōsteede in Hartford sheere 21 y Iun|ly|e 1. ♃ h. 8. 12 ant m. 1630

This fellow iust at nig nine \of the clocke/ before his falling fit strooke me over the eylid. his sences Decayed 3 weekes talketh idlely

Did aske me blessing at his in comming

RN M^r Cave of Leycester 4 38. y. May 2. h {sic} hor 4. 30 m {sic} p m 1629 |mayed {sic} 13 y 4 child. youngest 3. y.|

M^r Cave of Leycester 38. y. May 2. h {sic} hor 4. 30 p m 1629 had a palsy & the Iliaca Convulsions

RN Susan Blundell toke her fit by some foolish vision & sight at what time she laughed & sawe Goody Greene & goody Nichols flinging of trenchers & when it tooke her as they say shee cryed out vppon Goody Barnwell. the 13 of Novemb. die ♄. h noctis circ 12 1596.

Susan Blundell

RN Mres Holland. Lond: 23 y at Halloutyde last. Weddensday maij 6. ♂ h. 10. ant m 1606 |taken first on weddensd east^r weeke \easter {sic}/ at night| /in her bed. at 12. p m a thing like a dog cāme vppō her made her fome & skrike\ |shee sayd she sawe some ill thing in her bed comīg to her like a cat or a dog as shee lay w^th her husb. y^t strooke her w^th a dead palsye./|

RN M^r Woullyston Ap 4 ♃ h 7 p m 1622

a purg dyet drink the {lees} of the mother & convulsion are all turned vp to the brayne mopish will not give on word leane /sine consensu.\

he sendeth only for stuffe to make a dyet drink to be delivered vnto Mres mockete at Barnet./

RN M^r Wyndgate taken w^th \his/ old fits w^th an Idle brayne & full of talke may 13. ♀ h. 12. 1625¹

RN was first strangly taken feb 28. ♂ h. 9. p m 1632.

fell downe dead & had 2 or 3 fits in an houres & will \doth/ quake skreame & crye

feb 28 ♂ h. 8 40 \30/ p m 1632 /of all tes body & toes\

RN first of all taken in his bed w^th a great heavynes in his head Aug 3. ☾ h. 7 ant m 1629

first taken w^th an aguish fit

RN M^r Tyrringhās mead of Tyrringhā 24 y Ian. 13 ☉ h. 9. ant m 1605. suffocat matricis strange fits eith^r of moth^r or apop. litharg.¹