Casebooks

TG Ann Couper of Hanslap 5 quarters old. jan. 28 ♂ h. 11 AM. 1634. was taken yesterday morning betweene 6 & 7 of the clocke, soe as she cannot stirre her legges.¹

RN Iherom of this towne for goody Potter of Newp 60 Iuly 15 {♃}|☉| h. 11. 45. ant m 16i0 swelled in boath legs

RN Ralph Barly of newp. 3 y cānot goe nor lift vp his leg. but could goe nothing doth him good./ thought to be stroken his ach is gone./

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 Thomas Gr Bricknell of hardmead his frinds at Simpson. Iuly the 17 die ♃ h. 11 ant m. 1600 over heate his legs & breake out.

RN Rich Atwell of Stanbridge 3 y feb. 5 ♀ h. 11. 30 ant m 1608 the child in p^rsenc¹²

RN Mich Wylli{s}|a|mson 7. y. & a halfe Iune 12. ☾. h. 9 ant m /1620\ lame in her legs hath no vse of his legs

RN Mres Mary came to tell me y^t her mres her stomack was mutch swelled. & very hard & y^t her legs at night vse to swell Iuly 11. ☿ h. 9. 45 ant m. 162i

RN Henry vittle of Nosely serv: & butler & bruer to S^r Arthur Hazlerig 22 y feb. 16 ♃ h 8. 45 ant m 1632. /left leg swelled 2 or 3 y. on the knee.\ |M^r lightfoote wrote in his behalfe to serve Rich. Nap|

RN Thomas Atkins of Broughton 15 y servant to M^res Androwes taken in his lims armes hands legs stiffe on satterday last it tooke him. Ian. 12 die ♄ h 9. 40. ant m. 1600

RN Edward Wale of Kempson 14 y. Apr. 26 ♀ h. 11. 25 ant m 1605 in p^rsence lame in his right leg & swelled y^t he cānot goe nor stande.

RN M^r Hudsons man for his master tooke a fall at Tiddington frō a house & fell downe. may 13 ☾ h. 10. 15 ant m 1611 & he felt on his hed belly swelleth & legs.

RN On of Wellinborough for a child of 12 y y^t is swelled in her legs lame rūne pyneth & cōsumeth & bell hath gone for it

RN Rob favell very weak g{athes} no strenght. & goeth crosse legs other wise not & his legs & body pyne Aug 1|2|0 ♀ h. 11 45 ant m 1624

3 y ch{rim}{illeg}|{s}| {sic} Christmas the sonday senet before Christmas h. 12. 30 in y^e morning very early

RN Rich Kerby Miller of Newport 60 \56/ yeres old. long & grevously sick {filiu}s  patre \{servus}  Domino/ cū euꝯ {sic} consensu it hath held this 4 yeres by fits but this quarter of this yere held him sorely & keepeth home some days his bed in his fit & then abroad. a payne in his hart w^th a sighing black coloured very fat of his face but w^th this sicknes shrunk in his bodye & legs. M^r yarrow for him novemb. {sic} 1 Decēb. die ♀ h. 10. 15. 1598¹

RN M^r Brough for a gentlemā a frind of his an {sic} a guest who is troubled w^th the heate of the liver ascendeth vp to his head & throote every night & into his legs as it were a dropsye & voydeth more vpward then downward taken mutch w^th a cold Crampe that he cannot styrre febr. 26 die ♂ ♄ {sic} 10. 30. ant m. 1600 & for Goody Barnes a baker of stony stratford

RN Ioseph Shawe of Brafild in y^e Green 16 y. novēb^r 8 ☾ hor. 11. 25. ant m 1602. fat & hungry frighted in his bed & weakned in his wits & care not whō he striketh not sicke cōplayneth of sore{b}|n|es of his legs armes & sometymes hart.

vide Octob. 11.

cryeth out of a black mā. & black theefe.

RN M^r Nichols of Wing for on of his fellowes \Edwards Gardiner/ growen into y^e scurvy & dropsye y^t before a yere sinc was recovered only by scurvygras now growen swelled his legs thighes & belly are very mutch swelled his appetite de{i}ected & 70 y cā take no purge fat corp & well coloured Ap 6 h {sic} hor. 7. 25 ant m 16i6. |breath short|

RN may 8 at fryday it tooke him about 12 in the night it first tooke him in his legs w^th a shooting & sinc it rūneth vp into his hed making him to talke idlely a light head |Is grown starke mad.|

RN We let old goody Larking of havershā 72 y maij 11 ♄ hor 1. 3|4|0 ant m p m 1605.

for extreme aches & shooting in her necke armes leg