Casebooks

RN Goody Keburne is speachles or cānot speake well & vtter her words plainly Sept 1 ☾ h. 6. 20 ant m 1628 /of Moulsoe\

RN {M}artha Nichols of Imlye 11. & halfe a yere Iulye 23. ☾ h. 2. 40 p m 16i0 /pater sine consensu\¹

RN Iohn Abbys of Bedfor{d} 26|7| y march 27. ☉ h 2. 20 p m 1608 ne{illeg}|w|ly mayed {sic} a yere

Iohn Abbys of Bedford pater  filio sine consensu speachles in a la {sic} litharge marh {sic} 27 ☉. h. 2. 15 p m 1608.

RN Thomas Hall \56 y./ was taken in his speach & right syde 2 Martij ♂ h. 7. 3|2|0 ant m 1619 sodenly going about his worke

RN Zachary Ketch of lathbury 10 yeres old sickned the 10 of novemb. die ♀ about noune came for my counsell. 23 of Novemb. die ♃ h. 12. 30|5|. 1598. he can hardly speak or stande.

RN Will Colmā sent me word that his stich was likely to kill him could not speak for it Decēb 25 ♃ h. 9 ant m 1617

is desyrous to be let blood

RN Elis Wyndmyll of Hanslop. 54 y Iune 28 ♄ 1. p m 1623. /Doth faulter in her speach\

RN Rich Brigs of Dunstable 61. Aug 6. ♀ h. 3. 20 p m 1619.

a lamenes & nūnes of his lyms speach fayleth many tymes & cānot speake & is very testy.¹

RN M^r Robert Ansloe 66 y feb 26 ☾ h. 4 30 p. m 1627 on thursday last he swonded ever sinc his right syde is dead & speaketh very badly¹

RN It tooke him first on sonday last w^th a trēbling all over. & tooke away the vse of his lyms & now his sences & all 25 ☉ h. 9. 30 ant m sodaynly taken 162i /will take nothing nor speak cānot keepe his water\

RN Robart Kinsweeke of Elstoe 54 y. taken in London taken on the right syde fyngers head & feete w^th a swelling. Apr. 25. vppon S^t Markes Day being satterday betwixt 6 & 7 in the morning. was first taken. Apr. 25. die ♄ hor 6. 30. ant m. 160i. betwixt 3 & 4 aft^r noone could not styrre & the sunday morning could not speake

he was blasted in a garden.¹

RN At this tyme was taken in his bed strangly & cānot speak offreth to cast voydeth mutch waterish & reddish water. |did bleed at nose|

RN Francis Smyth of Browton \Ap 15/ 9 y Iuly 14|5| 15. ☾ h. 11. ant m 1633 /could neaver speak hath a sore itch & bleatch all over\

RN a rising vp ready to choake her voydeth vp flegme & blood & swoundeth often sinc last night about nine & cānot speake feb 2. ☿ h. 9 p m 163i |body swelled| /speachles\ /An Impost feared\ |neav^r had child|

GJ Elsabeth Hayes of Turvy 43 y Octob. 18 ♂ ho. 9. 50 a m. 1603. |wind in the stomacke.| A dry Cough An Itche and as it were a dry scurfe. Hath a Childe of 2 yeere old sucking on her, the childe very poore & will take nothing but the brest can neither go nor speake: borne the saturday fortnight after midsomer 1601 betwene 8 & 9 at night quiet in the day but very vnquiett all night. very cold, swelled in the body of late. the mother nunquā habuit menstrua since she had this child.

RN Marke Gray of litle Brickle 16 y Iuly 16 ♀ h. 7. 15 p m 1619 /he is so sick y^t he canot speake\

RN Will Wakefild \serv mayd/ of Preston. 14 y march 12 ♀. h. 3. p m. 1624 /sickned a thursd last was sennet speach lost\

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 William Tomkins \9 y cānot feed him selfe toucheth his hands & legs ev^r sinc Easter./ Francis Tomkins 17 y {sic} |7 y| a boye Marg. Tomkins 14. y.

Williā Tomkins was stroken suddenly. lame in all his lims & cā speake but a litle y^t on cā scarce vnderstand & when he goeth he rūneth as on y^t should light on his head all halloutyde the weddensday after Alhalloutyde was 4 y. hath bene thick of hearing a weeke & curst w^th all.

his right arme as stiffe as a stake came all to me at onc Iuly 25 h {sic} hor. 12. 40 p m 1629 All of thē p^rsent

RN Mary pen of Stony stratford 29 yeres taken speachles & shaking & throtte{illeg}|ll| & rore & burne. thus taken the 22^th day of August. about 10 a clock at night die ☿ ♄ {sic}. 10. at night 1599. maritꝯ  vxore