Casebooks

RN a litle child halfe yere old swoundeth & fometh as one having the falling sicknes. vexed w^th many convulsive fits Decēb 30 ♂ h. 11 ant m. 1623.

goody Huccot next neighbour suspected

RN Iohn knight of Haleston beyond Northāpton 20 weekes old Iuly. 18 ♃ h. 11. 40 ant m 1622 troubled w^th convuls.

RN Mres Elis Ienings. correpta subite morbo valde violento. instar mortuæ martij 17. ☉. h. 12. p m. 1622. |{n}o motion of life strang convulsiva| her extremest fit it lasted 4 or 5 houres

RN Mres Elis Norton fell into a swound & cōtinued dead w^t for a long tyme yet revived agayne wth & had many convulsions March 20. ♃ h. 8. 30 ant m 1617.

RN S^r Will. Androws the younger for his son litle child & Infant y^t hath an ague & 3 fits Ian. 24. ☿ h. 11. 3|4|0 ant m 162i.

RN Ian 19 19 ♄ hor 10 p m. had her first fit w^th great panting and sighing 1622 |primꝯ morbi Insultus|

RN An Randall of Stanfford of Sowthell 2. y. octob. 6. h {sic} hor 11. 38 ant m 1627. susp: the falling sicknes vseth to have convulsions catcheth & snatcheth & lifteth vp the eyes.

RN Henry Hazlewood 11 wee{kes} old strangly handled & lyeth dead 3 o{r} 4 tyms a day w{^th} convulsions feb. 2{8} ♂ h. 11 ant m 16{32}

RN The Countes of Westmrland {sic} sent to me to come to her Daughter in lawe y^t lyeth in cānot sleepe full of rhue {sic} & convulsions Iune 23 y I {sic} h {sic} hor. 11. 30 p m ant m 1632. /newly brought a bed\¹

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 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 Elis Meane of Stony stratford a yere & a halfe old on fryday next will L {sic} fortnight before miklemas betwixt 7 & 8 at night march 3. ☿ h. 11. 15 ant m 1630

right syde hand arme & foote & casteth every thing. Convuls

U[1629–1631] An meede of cranfeild A child borne the 26 of Aprill 30′  5 ante me’ And hath had a convultion {Ever} for a 12 month. and cannot go nor stand

RN Thomas Dudly nowe 5 yeres old next miklemas natus erat Sept 15. die ☉ h 1. p m. hath his health well & eateth his meate. about harvest last began to have a rising in his throte ready to stop his wind & speach in always when he beginneth to sleepe then it hath held him sinc miklemas the last time it tooke him it bete him on friday last. going to sleepe. ready to skreame & skrike in the fit.

RN I receaved a letter frō S^r Th. Mydleton & the lady Earsfild & old S^r Rob Napeir feb {illeg} 27. ☾ h 7. 3|4|0. p m. 1625|6| frō S^r Rob touching Rich busynes y^t he would goe to London & see what he can doe w^th the Archebishop.

2. frō S^r Th nydleton & the lady Earfild touching the lady Midletons conv{ul}sive c{illeg}|rā|ping cholick |feb: 27. ☾ h. 7. 20 p m 1626|¹

cōmendeth her pils best.

RN Iohn fisher a yere old borne on Barth eve was a twelfmonth being ☾. h. 10 30 at|p| m. 1626.

fell sick on thursday Last w^th strong fits swonding & putting out the tongue now the \violent/ fits gone hath a burning feaver

It fell sick sept 28 ♃ h. 12. 1626.

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