Casebooks

RW Peirce Glouer of Partnoll y.    d. ♀ h: 0. Decemb: 13 1622: \rageth 9 {illeg}|d|ayeꝭ: is watched/ day & night. was let bloud: sleepeth not.¹RW

TG Thomas holle of housban{d} Crolly for sleepe.

TG Mr N standish of Highwicken parish 21. y Maji 14 ♂ h. 7. 30 p M. 1633. /lightheaded, melancolick, cannot sleepe, wich he thincketh to doe him the most hurte\

GJ Thomas Bently of Turvy 33 y. March 30 ☿ ho 4 p m

Troubled in his sleepe w^th dreaming of Children/

RN Goody Pancurst 26 y decēb. 7 h {sic} hor 2. 30 p m 1622

cānot sleepe

RN Goody Sweane of this towne, brought a bed last tuesday of a boy Decēb 10 ♀ h. 3. p m 1624

can̄ot sleepe these 6 weekes

RN S^r Iohn Osburne 75 y of Qucksand sept 15 {illeg}|h| {sic} hor 3. 20 p m 1627 to cure rest

RN Ione Carrington of Chaulton 80 y. Iuly 25 die ♀ h. 12 cannot sleepe & cougheth mutch

RN At this tyme a greene womā newly delivered sent for her hed cānot sleepe I think goody Pen.

RN Margaret Lawrenc 50 yeres old servant sent in y^t howse never well sinc y^t servante went he{illeg}|r| master did not leeke her well & therfore turned her away. suspected shee can seldome sleepe. fallen downe into her leg this Margaret sayd of her y^t shee was naught w^th on of her masters servantꝭ y^t was marid

Elisabeth Doggett of Westninge. 32. y. March. 1. ♀. h. 12. 20. p m. 1633

a swīming in her head w^th a great Cough for a yeare, much wasted in her Bodye Cannot sleepe nor Eate.

RN Will Cowly care {sic} to tell me y^t Th. Nichols care {sic} for his sister & sayd y^t she was very sick & y^t the sleeping syrope lyeth at her stomacke & yet cānot sleepe w^th it Ap 24 ☾ h. 4. 38 p m 1620

SRN Elizabeth wotton his wife. very weake for the most part of a month not able to helpe her selfe. cannot sleep at all. flesh bated & pined away

RN Ellen Triploe of litle Paxon 48 y octob. 21. ♂ h. 3. 40 p m 1617

starteth & skryketh & sayth sometymes y^t she shalbe drowned & sometȳes burned w^th many idle speaches ill 4 days by fits. slept neaver a whit last night.

is distracted pulleth & snatcheth

vide Octob 11.

tooke greefe y^t her son did mary agaynst her will yet she gave her consent mutch agaȳst her will wished y^t she might see him buryed. husb. sine cōsensu

RN Iohn feary of Bozzet 17 weekes old the morrow after May day in the morning about betwixt 3 & 4 at the {illeg}|d|ay breake./ his father came for him. August 29. ♂ h. 12. 40 p m 1620. ill almost ever sinc he was borne mutch troubled w^th heate for a month & cā not rest in his cradle.

RN Rose Bates servant to M^r Allen of Goldington 25 y febr. 15 ♃ h. 12. 50 p m 162i.

ill ever sinc Chistmas by fits cōplayning of the left syde & cā take no rest day nor night.

RN febr. 17. 16. about 6 at night grew first to be very melancholick & could not sleepe & took a feaver or feb. 16. h {sic} hor 6 p m. 1622

RN M^r Taylour march. 26. ♀

M^r Taylor march. 26 ♀ h. 6 p m 1630

sent to signify vnto me y^t the heate of the soules of his feete will not let him sleepe his feete be so paynfull.¹

GJ M^r Adrian Fortescue and m^rs Mary Fortescue have taken thrice of their physicke and wrought well w^th them, the gentlewoman sicke the first taking, and well since, her stomack better, but her head as it was

M^r Adrian sicke w^th his physicke on monday last and tooke none since he sleepes not well, is growen weake and his waxen kernells remayne. / my Lady thinkꝭ that if he continue so it will bring him to a consumption She desyres to have some course for m^r willm Fortescue 10 y. w^ch hath also an Itche. Desyres to be satisfyed how this Itche comes whether by overheating the bloud w^th violent exercise. & whether they shall continue the rest of the physike.

RN An Rūbell of Bullingf

An Rūble of Buntingford 25 y y {sic} newly brought a bed a fortnight sinc octob 5. ♀ h. 5. p m 1632.

a great trēbling & panting at her hart mynd troubled w^th fantas. for want of sleepe delivered of a boy on weddensday was fortnight h. 1 at night cā take no rest melancholick

An Rūble of Buntinford 25 y octob. 5 ♀ h. 5. 25 p m 1632

lately brought a bed a trēbling & a panting at the harte cānot sleepe melancholick