Casebooks

RN Edward Child of Silsoe taken on the 17 of Apr ☿. about 6 \30/ in the morning {A} {sic} 1611. strangly taken & doth {m}

RN Edward Child lyeth very strangly handled. as on y^t were bewitched stragling biting catching & sighing 2 y. old Iune 11. ♂ h. 8 38. ant m 1611.

RN Mary Borrell first taken on ♀ last ☾ Aug 4. h 12 \20/ in m. {sic} p m 1617 strangly taken.

RN An Shortreed 3 quarters Old Decēb 18 h 8. 30 ant m 1624

mater  infante strangly handled

RN Taken strangly Decēb 18 ☉ h. 11 p m 1625

RN Iohn Goldsbborow the gradchild {sic} to S^r Iohn Robart Pean Pain of Sowthoe 4 y suddenly & strangly taken Octob 25 ♄ hor. 10 ant m 1628

RN This child was strangly taken may. 30. ☾ h. 12 at noon 1631

RN a boy of a yere old goody Swinshheds child of Donstable march. 28 ♃. h. 2. 45 p m 1611. |vnquiet|

strangly taken quærit wheather taken & will live

RN a litle child of 13 wekes old taken yesterday & strangly. Iune 20 h {sic} hor 5. 4|5|0 p m 1612. like on y^t had y^e palsye

RN M^r Pow my L. Purbecks serv: for his frinds child octob 16 ♃ h. 6 p m 1623

The child borne a yere old. Convuls.

Iohn Rainte was borne miklemas was twelfmonth on miklemas Day last was twelfmonth h 4 p m. 1622 strangly handled

Iohn Raunt of London a yere old last miklemas troubled w^th convulsi{ons} octob 16 ♃ h. 6 p m 1{623}

M^r Pue my lord Purbe{ecks} serv: for this child

RN Iane Lightfoote nata vppon S^t Iames day about 3 in y^e morning was a {sic} last S^t Iames day a twelfmonth is very sick & lyeth strang & was not signed w^th the signe of the crou|s|se. it the child gnaweth 3 days ill.

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 Susan Bynion of 2 yeres old troubled w^th a straung ague & Drinketh sorely. and shaketh every daye. August. 21 die ♂ h. 9. 52. ant m 1599

RN The M^r Iackmans child |of billington| Katheron of 4 y. febr. 13 {sic} ☾ hor. 10. 50. ant m 1603. payned very strangly in her fundament as if it had some emrods or swelling w^thin it

RN Susan Neythercot for a litle child \of Moulton/ a yere & a halfe old sept. 17 ☾ h. 1. p m. 162i hath smale vse of her Lims. & hath strange fits of crying & it will clutch her hands thought to be pospessed {sic}./ pater sine cōsensu./

RN sorely handled w{^th} strang fits of con{vul}sion decēb. 12 h. 4 ant m. 16{24}

RN Th. Hadyn of Dedington 2 y Iuly 20 {illeg} Iuly 18 ♀ h. 10 ant m 1628 dyed strangly. on sonday of an Impostume & a great bunch.

RN This strang fit of convuls. tooke it Iuly 14. ☾ h. 5. 30 p m. 1628 \of Calverton/ An Iames taken at this tyme first

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Lyddy Pryour of Dunstable. 9. y Decēb 22. ☿ h. 1. 30 p m 1619

this child is strangly handled ever sinc it took her it rūneth into every te & when it cōmeth into her lips & throat then cānot speake but after it is gone sk\r/yketh. at others tymes lyfteth vp her bodye

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