Casebooks

RN A nynster {sic} for h{is} wife brought a {bed} a fortnight sinc A{ug} 21 ♀ h 3 39 p m 1629

RN Francis Coo of Wicken 24 y Iune 22 ♂ h. 6. 20 ant m 1630 |Katherin Perce. the mydwife|

RN Iane Nichols of Hanslop. lady dickbyes millers wife 22 y march. 19 ♂ h. 7. ant m 1611 ever since yesterday morning in travell

RN Rebecca Harley of Clappā not sick. {illeg} 32 y octob. 20 ☾ h. 11. 15 ant m 1617

hath had 3 child but when she cometh to be brought a bed the live her labour ceaseth & she is so overcome w^th water y^t all her child how lively soever dye in the delivery

now is w^th child neav^r more healthy

wheath^r she were best to leave her old mydwife though a paynfull & a laborious womā. because of her ill lucke

RN at this time came spensers meade whose courses are stopt

GJ Margaret Abraham m^rs Prices mayd. 37 y. Aprill 13 ☿ ho. 9 15 a m. 1603 non habet menstrua.

GJ Fraunces Fowler Wetherhedꝭ maid of this towne Septemb. 6 ♃ ho. 6. 30 a m. 1604

non habuit menstr since pescod tyme was twelvemoneth

RN Ellen Hues of our towne 21 y M^res Blundls servant novēb. 8 ♀ h. 10. 30 p|a|nt m 1605. termes stopt.

RN The Countes of Westmorland sent for her stuffe & bedding Iune 26. ♂ h 6 p m 1627. /Henry Toate her Tenant came\ & for somewhat for Bals Daughter about 10 or eleaven yeres old for the falling sicknes. ☾ sep a □ ☉ ap ☌ ♂.

she signifyeth y^t Mres Crosts is fect well

& would know how M^r Cicils serv. M^r Iohn king is & with all telleth me y^t her sone is at the Bath & shalbe there for the space of a yere & that it is well amended

The lady De La Spencer Looketh every Day to be brought a bed /The Baylyes Daughter.\

RN Agnes fisher of Newport servant to Foster the carier 23 yeres hath not her Courses & is swollen in her legs & hoven in \about/ her harte. & cannot take her winde at 11. 30. mi p m {sic}. 1599.

RN Bridget Cooke of serv to old M^r Duncōbe of great Brickhill 24 y Ap. 10 h {sic} hor 10 45 ant m 1624 /had thē not sinc alhallowtide\ /sent her water\

GJ Ioane Fisher of Stonystratford 23 y. Octob j. ♄ ho 1. 45 p m. 1603

A great payne in her backe

menses obstructi these 2 or 3 yeeres

Thomas Colyns a malsters mayde

Ill many tymes in her stomacke sometymes ready to swound

RN Ione Wylson Mres Byrds meaden 28 y martij 9 h 5. 39 p m 1605.

for an extreeme toothache her sl termes but a fewe loketh very yellow & ill for lacke of them.

RN my mayd An Burges termes stopt belly stomak Iuly 19 ♃ h. 9. ant m 162i

RN Mres vuedales meade sickly hath not her courses. supposed \by M^r Vuedale/ to be w^th child w^th & by her {L} \{Kinsmā}/ that last was question made. Novemb. 12 die ☉ h. 8. 15. 1598.

RN Yoing {sic} goody Hopkins sent her water hath bene in labour & anys {sic} sinc nuday {sic} night & sent for her nydwife {sic} weddensd ill but thursday all day worse & her labour now ceaseth Ian 9 ♀ h. 8. 20 ant m 1624.

RN The Lady Longeville new come to Billen about on weddensday last sent h a letter to me Iuly 26 ♀. h. 2. p m 1622

how her courses be broken downe & y^t her hedach is nothing so bad as it was wont.

RN Thomas White of Milten 56. may 22 die ♃ h. 11 30 ant m 1600 |a payne in his shoulders| payned in his head back & chest stuffed. faynt & feeble water good but yellowish. sande in his backe. a drye cough.

Susāna White of Milten ^Mres Androwes servant 18 a red coloured wenche legs sweld. hath the whites but very few of the reds. head & harte a swimminge.