Casebooks

RN Elis Baldyn first taken w^th strang fits feb 22 ♀ h. 3 p m 1633 |ready to stangle {sic} \strangle/ her hart ill|

RN Mres An Goddiar a londyner a widow strang mother fi{ts} {sic} fits 2: y. may 5. ♀ h 7 ant m 1626

Mres An Goddiar \was/ troubled w^th strang fits of the mother mother {illeg} {a} widow her father M^r Bambridg in the Strand agaynst Checker Lane at the signe of the black spread {E}agle may 5 ♀ h 7 ant m 1626

a Daughter of on M^r Iohn Brarmridg now a widow w^th 5 children sent to me 2 y sinc of whom I tooke speciall notes may 5 ♀ h. 7. 30 ant m 1626 mutch like my lady Iennings Daughter Desyreth y^t I should looke over my bookes & send the same things

In the Strand agaynst Checker lane at the blacke spread Eagle

Her name is Anne Goodyeare of the Strand ♀ may 5 ♀. h. 7. ant m 1626

RN on fryday night about 12 of the clock was taken very strangly backe belly & every where as it were w^th huc\coc/kes fryday & satterday night lay as on y^t should dete

feb. 4. ♀ h. 12. at night

RN Thomas Nichols \of litle Linford/ taken very strangly in his belly novēb 25. ☉ h. 3. p m 1632 |13 y|

RN Iohn Windmill of Yardly Gubbin a twelmoneth old & as mutch as candelmas the sunday after candlemas. came & brought her Child y^t was payned in the body & had divers fi strange fits. but before it tooke it had a fit of an ague before it. not v this beating & panting began on friday night w^th a quivering & shakings of the belly & armes Apr. 10. die ♂ h. 7. ant m. 1599 goeth had|r|d to grounde cryeth

RN Mres Ans fit tooke her Ian. 14. ☾ h. hor 2. p. m. 1633

horrible str{ā}g fits of \the/ motherSRN

RN She was taken strangly & sodenly but more yesterday then before Iuly 24. ☿ h 4|5| \5/ p m 1622. at sermō tȳe w^th strāg convulsions taking away her speach. & vse of her armes & her belly Did burne & trēble & was & is ever mightely tormōted w^th sore tēptatiōs when she is most willing to serve god¹

RN Ioane Bradbery of great Horwood 42 y taken strangly in her right hucklebone w^th great ach about thigh & share pulling her in peeces cānot stand vppon it nothing to be sene taken Octob. 3. ☉ h. 5. 20 p m 1630

RN Rich Dudley of Shenly. 48 y may 13. ☾ h. 5. 25 ant m 1611. /strangly taken by fits at hart lik as on pinched & gryped. fery stroken\

RN Mres An Barber of Kensworthe 46|5| y. sept 28. ☿ hor 9. 16|5|. ant m 1603.

was borne {illeg} {sic} on a {tuds} \shrovesōdaye/ after noone. an hour betwixt 4 & 5. /hath often bene let blood sicknes gone this 4 yeres.\ |extreeme hot. casteth vp sometymes leek whitꝭ of egge. sometymes blacke stuffe.|

Mres An Barber sept 28 ☿ hor. 9. 15 ant m. 1603. strangly handled w^th her stomack burning & gnawing & then an intolerable paine of her hed for 20 houres not well for 40 houre & then it cōmeth once in a weeke in the wynter. & aft^r hath a swelling & a gnawing in the calfꝭ of her legs.

RN my lady Mydleton her husb. water sine consensu octob. 16: ☾ h. 7. ant m 1620.

S^r Thomas taken w^th a strang fit & passion of the splene & stone octob. 15. ☉ h. 10. \9. 30/ p m. 1620.¹

RN Lettice Shermā of Woulv^rton 23 y march 29 ♃ h. 8 9. ant m. 162i

she came heather w^th her mother. strang fits then swoūding in her bed as the falling sicknes or mother.

RN Margaret Smyth. of Broughton 43 y Aug. 10. ♀. h. 9 ant m. 1627 |hath an ague every day sinc christmas|

strangly taken w^th a rising at her hart likely to swound sa a knife & feareth to see a knife & trēbleth at it.

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

RN The lady \An/ Butler for her m^r Oliver Butler 9 y next march bone {sic} 28 or 29 about 12 & on in the night. of Harolde sent to me for this child Ian 3 h {sic} hor 11. 45 ant m 1623 {sic}. extree {sic} weake & feeble & cā take no physick taken w^th strang fits plucking his \right/ syde & rūneth to his back being holden harde & an extree {sic} cough almost halfe a yere. & is pyned & cā not stand nor goe Ill tong suspected

RN Ione Longe of Astwood 20. y. taken yesterday in her bodye after a strange maner. y^t shee cannot make water greeepeth {sic} her bellye & cryeth w^th it & cannot sleepe. Septemb. 5. die ☿ h. 6. 45. ant m. 1599. /her fathers servant gote her w^th Child but her fath^r would not let him marry her./\

RN Mres Haynsworth of Stonystratford 35 y & as mutch as frō the 4 of August last was strangly taken at the hart & did swound often tymes almost Dead Decēb. 9. ☿ h 12 1618.

RN The Countes of Rutland 21 y Octob. 21 ☿ h. 2. p m. 1607 |hed strange legs & knes swell. back/|

RN Rich Carter of Althrop \S^r/ |Iohns Spence\r/s man.| 32 y. Iune 3. ♀ hor. 1. 30 p m. 1603.¹²

RN Mres Carpent^r of Parsnā 40 y Iuly. 12 ♂ h. 12. 15 p m 1608: strangly taken & vexed w^th a tertian ague had onc an Impostume cut out of her syde by Dr Ashworthe