Casebooks

RN Margaret Parker of Woulverton 19 decēb. 11 hor. 10. 45. ant m. 1602. swelled in her bodye hath not her courses. her husb is troubled w^th a megrym.

RN Ione \Anne/ Abdy of this towne 30 y May 24 ☾ h. 6. 39 ant m 1619 past her {illeg} {sic} {illeg} tyme 3 quaters {sic} of a yer{s} {sic} & a fortnight beasts {sic} doe not swell as before legs swell very big in her body desyrous of physick

RW Dorothy Greene of Perry. y. 30. d. ♂. h: 1. p: m: Apr: 25. 1620. not maryed, hath not had them since Christmasse. pinched in her body & stomacke

RN Elis Dent of Olnye 26 y Iune 19 ♂ h. 10. 30 ant m. 162i a great heate in her body chest & bellye.

RN S^r Thomas Comptons Cook may 15 {illeg}|♃| h. 6 p m 1623

swelled in his legs & body a Dropsy

RN Arthur Smithe of Woulverton. 36. payned in the bodye nowe & lims & knees. & hath a great hote stomack and mutch bounde. arms this 7 yeres & hath spent mutch monye. faynt & feeble. maij 1. die ♂ h. 9. {illeg}|3|0. ant m. 1599.

RN Thomas Whooton of haversham about 22. vnmaried. sick this yere. quærit remediū. novemb 6. die ☾. h. 12. 30. he hath had a swelling in his right side broken out in his wrestꝭ & body filthy water. heavy vncōfortable his hed gyddy & light his sight bad

RN M^r Rob. Longevill at litle Billing 4 y next nydsomer {sic}. may. 23. {illeg}|♃|. h. 11. ant m 1622. had the measles. cane {sic} out on his face & body. well.

but the child is ill. & feaverish & costive sinc sonday.

RN Richard Kinge of Nash. 24 yeres hath had a swelling in his body belly & mēbers & face for this 3 yeres & goeth away agayne. Octob. 3 die ☿ h. 12. 45. {illeg} 1599. hath bene at Cublington son of Thorton’. in his throate & k {sic} & knees.

GJ Ellen Fisher of Baddlesdon 32 y. Ianuar. 10 ♃ ho. 2. p. m. 1605. RN |do fear the dropsye./| Swelled in her body face RN armes & legs. blys {sic}

RN Henry Stile of mutch Brickhill 19 y Iune 29 ☾. h. 2. 30 p m 1607 19. y. sick 3 weekes very sore swelled in his body, bothe legs & face. & all other s {sic} of his bodye

Davēport the Appar. wrote to me in his behalfe.

RN Mres Pescot sent a letter to me touching certen ptyes susp to doe her hane {sic} May 17 ☾ h. 1. 30 p m. 1624

Mres Prescot was w^th goody M^res Kendall who did excuse her selfe &|b|efore she dyed & did put it on her daughter in law that mayed {sic} her sonne called Ellenor Cooke now wife of francis Typsley confessed y^t her daughter sent for a mā to cure her mischiefe but they did not fourme it. still is tormented almost in all tꝭ of her bodye yet not sicke so y^t she is afrayd y^t all her adversayes {sic} are not rooted out. this \last/ womā hath a Daughter y^t was w^th the old womā before she dyed called Anne Typsley. always tormented at hart feareth a cōsūption & craveth my consayle & helpe vnder god.

RN Ione Denby of Edgborough 31 y may. 19 ☾ h. 9. 10. ant m. 1617. |a weake backe & body|

RN Iohn Topping of Crafton by my lord Dormers 13 y may 30 ♀ h. 9. 15 ant m 1617. |had a rūning vp & downe his bodye & lims|

RN D Iames of Oxford st|ran|gly {sic} \straungly/ taken w^th a palsye on the left syde of the face hand & leg taken at church & great red blatches in t|H|is fac & bodye & his ey swelling & f|H|is face a yere before & sinc he contenting certen sup witches & on being acquitted he felt his strange stitch on his s {sic} left syde by fits he supposeth y^t the womā susp for a witch but quitted by the Iudges did hurte him the 24 of feb. ☾ sep a □ ♄ ap ☌ ♂ y^t night at sup first taken. had his first fit after he talked w^th m^r Rob. Conye. feb 18. in y^e after noone his first fit but his worst fit the 24 of feb when the sup witch was acquitted/

M^res Iames mentioned M^r Doctor Iames |of oxford| Ap. 20 ♃ h. 3. 20 p m. 1620 /she related all at this tyme/\

RN Katheron Allen at Newport 50 yeres old. amisse this {illeg} yeres assone as shee was delivered of a child paynd in her hed. & swollen in her face. aremes {sic} legs hoven in her body sweateth & her hed & neck & syde loketh very hie & is specled. short winded & faynte. March 27. die ♂ h. 11. 30. 1599

RN Raynold Tennet of Kempson 15 y. for a strong itch. his hands & bodye w red & ytchy his blood infected h. Ian 14 die ☾. h. 2. p m. 1600.

RN Frauncis Longvile of 10 yeres old. very sick in his body sent his water this 27 of Apr. die ♀ h. 9. 52. ant m. 1599. stiffe of his legs & armes.

RN Rob. Richardson at Sandy for his Daughter Elis Richadson 40 y Iuly 20 ♂ h. 2. 40 p {illeg} 10. 40 ant m 1619 |h. 11 ant m 1619|

in her body & then her backe & chest & casteth all y^t she taketh almost a quarter of a yere /{vnnared} {sic}.\

RN Rich Kerby Miller of Newport 60 \56/ yeres old. long & grevously sick {filiu}s  patre \{servus}  Domino/ cū euꝯ {sic} consensu it hath held this 4 yeres by fits but this quarter of this yere held him sorely & keepeth home some days his bed in his fit & then abroad. a payne in his hart w^th a sighing black coloured very fat of his face but w^th this sicknes shrunk in his bodye & legs. M^r yarrow for him novemb. {sic} 1 Decēb. die ♀ h. 10. 15. 1598¹