Casebooks

GJ Sibill Fisher of Cokenho 23|4| y August 1. ☾ ho 12 15 p. m. 1603

Light headed laug{illeg}|h|es, but at first tooke it w^th a weeping lookꝭ ghastly. \a/ fleering lookꝭ settꝭ her teeth. one night did nothing but sweare and curse /

Sibill Fisher she knowes not of her husbandꝭ cōming for her, knowes nobody they bynde her handꝭ and feete. when she is loose she is so strong that they cannot Deale w^th her. singꝭ idle songꝭ. Desyres to daunce. She had 2 midwives the first vnskilfull the 2 froward & would not meddle w^th her because she was not first sent her, suspected to be a witche, the woman well layd but a weeke after fell into these fittꝭ & at first speaking of her 2 midwyfe sayd. what doest thou there w^th thy blacke hen. & such like speeches

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RN Rebecca Wallen of Westmyster {sic} but now hath layen at Bedford mayed {sic} 25 y. Ian. 7. ♂ h. 2. p m 1623

RN Mres Bartly of East Barnard 26 y the next 24 of Ian being thē ♂ {her} about 10 ant m \about ten at night/ sent to me Ian 16 ♀ h 11. ant m 1624 /mother  filia sine consensu\

RN Mres Be\a/rry of Bedford 42. y. the 3 of may christened the fryday before came in son sept: 16 ☾ h. 2. p m. 1622 |pytifully cōplayneth|

RN Audery Groome of Temple Cowly 21 y may 10 ♀ h. 7. ant m 1633. /was p^rsent\

RN A{illeg}|g|nys Richards of Kettering 32. tuesd before palme sonday at twelfe at night her mother came for her w^th out her knowledg May 3. ☉. h. 8 50 ant m 1629¹

RN An Grene of H Hauxstone 43. y. Iune 16 ☾ h. 4. p m 1623.

M^r Candle a grave old mā dwelling in Attleborough in Nortfolk 60 y. a Scrivenour & a physition mtch {sic} sought vnto & told M^r \Robart/ Greene y^t his wife was beworded. Isabell Free the mother & her daughter Iennet free/

He gave out y^t it was no ague but a spirit.

Old yardly of Dunīgham w^th in 2 or 3 myles of Newmarket a gentlemā scholler a great physition 80 yers old no physick nor bathing will helpe her but a learned mā.

RN Mres Podder \the younger/ of Potters Perry 30|3| y Ap 30 ♃ h 11. 30 p m {sic} 1618.

hath not had the right course of her body these 3 yers.

feareth a cōsumption |& what is good to kepe her frō it|

vyyn {sic} very good.

would have a purge for her selfe & her husb. who feareth his father disease careth not for meate is Iealous of his wife being very honest & chast. & is sometyes {sic} lunatick & mad 4 y. & a halfe every 3 or 4 days.

he thincketh y^t he is bewitched w^th on a womā y^t gave his mother physick./

& M^r Pedders w{at^r} Ap 30 ♃ h.