Casebooks

RN Mres Elis: Reare of Easton 20 y novēb 2. ☿ h. 4|5| 3 p m 1608

The lady zancher for a sad pensive harte. & melanch. & purples in her bodye./

The lady Staffard for heare fallen & piling eyes red hands & melancholy

The lady Dormer farmer a soden feare after her sleepe a trembling.

RN My Cosen Marsh the older sent me a kind letter to signify y^t after my clyster & blood letting she was well for 4 days & then payned as before in her hed & arme so greevously betwixt 4 & 5 p m cōnoly {sic} Sept 14. ♀ h. 5. 30 p m 1627 she sent to Cambridg to M^r Crane he gave her a pils|l| & also a clyster

had the horse leaches & they were {illeg} naught.

took my pils & Dyet drink & did well for the tyme

her Daughter fond mtch {sic} good by her playster Desyreth a nother & a recept of it

RN Alce Coo of Emmerton 44 y Iune 4 ♀ h. 2 45. p m. 1630

lame in all her ioynts hands arms legs feet

RN my Cosen marsh of Hackny 60 y Ap. 27. ♀. h. 8. ant m. 1632. head & legs

RN Alce Butler of Litlington 2{9}|4| Ap 19 die ♄ h. 3 p m. \harte/ a swelling in her bodye & eyes

Alce Butler for her great swelling & heving aft^r child^r birthe

RN a litle gyrle 14 y very sick head & stomack my lady gave her aloes & syrope of roses & a vomyt w^th {sic} wrought eight 12 tymes & yet is not mended craveth my consell

RN Mable Pettite of i6 y. of Groundon. Iuly 30 die ☿ h. 11. 30 ant m. 1600. a great swelling in her face & throate.

GJ Margarett Allen of willing 20 y. Aprill 6. ☿ ho 11. 15 a m. 1603

For her sore leggꝭ broken and runne. Goodman Makham hath them in cure./

RN Ioane Steaphens ma\r/yed a w sinc tweltyde 19. y. Aug. 5 ☾ h. 10. 30 ant m. 1633 |of Grandborough| /Dove gave her a vomyt & let her blood in the left arme.\

a great payne & gryping in her stomack had thē 18 weekes sinc & 10 weekes sinc

quærit an sit gravida /head stomack & backe\

RN margery Iames of Greete by Winscombe in Glocester sheere 50 myles henc almost 50 y Iuly 21 h {sic} {illeg}|h|or. {8} {sic} h {sic} 7. 30 ant m 1632 |ma\r/yed|

She is hanted as she thinketh w^th an ill spirite & feeleth some living thing roll vp & downe in her & it will pluck her & gather all togeather./ then downe in the bottome of her belly & then rū vp to her hart & syde ill sinc whitsontyde

M^r freemā her m^r cured her 15 y since.

was very sickly always.

RN Mres Millecent Sainders sister to S^r Thomas Temple at Brisworth. 5 myles beyond North Hāpton 58 y Ap. 25. ☿ h. 2. 30 p m 1627

had a fall frō a horse 6 weekes a goe frō a horse by w^ch her hucklebone was set out of ioynt

Then it was set by M^r Hayles & cōtinued so a fortnight & then Allen of Leycestersheere in Norton put it better in being not well set & she found ease by it a fortnight & mended and about a ten days sinc she cōplayned of it y^t she could not styrr Knee nor foote. /& her Knees & toes stand ever sinc outward\¹

RW Peircie Crouch of Toceter y: 33 \33/ d. ☾. h: 2. p: m: Nouemb. 20. 1620. Burneth verie much in her stomacke \bodie/ & mouth. hath had much physicke frō M^r Iames yet not the better. was also let blood. can take no rest. had a Clyster lately. ill a moneth. keepe her bed a fortnight

RN my deere Cosen she Marsh sent vnto me Iuly 17. ♂ h. 5. p m. 1627. /deus benedicat Cognatæ meæ\

\no good of y^e oyntnent {sic}/ her head ill & mutch payned, the vayns in her tēples swelled & arme so weake y^t she cānot vse it & the vaynes be sore to her foote

extremely payned

desyrous to have williā Rufhead to let her blood

would have something to incease {sic} good blood

desyrous to know when to send her coach.

RN Mary Normā of Sh Bletchley 34 y Iune 18 ☿ h. 7. 30 ant m. 1623. hinder te of her head

RN M^res fountayne a gentlewomā by Alebery 36 y feb. 4. ♃ 2. p m. 1608 |for her disease in the stomacke| |at this tyme Mres Midlemore brought her water to the D Ash who sayde she had rotten kidneys|

RN M^r Stone would cut of the left foote of An knot 50 y Ap 20. ♂ h. 10 45 ant m. 1619.

she is Desyrous to have her foote cut of.

RN mres Godwyn of Cardington 38 y {D}|A|pr 6 h {sic} hor. 12. 30 p m. 1622

\she was at london & tooke nothing/ her husb. sent a lett^r to sig y^t his wife tooke the f{ur}e of a Doct^r Bōhā. & is in a manr {sic} poys in her gūs & wors then before

RN Goody Blea did send being in great misery w^th her leg. to Have it lanced it all soft over. & swelleth more at night thē otherwise & is well by fits. Ian 16. ☾|♄| hor. 8. 25 ant m 1613

Iohn Byrd was sent for & he thought it to be a waterish & a wyndy {hu}mour wynd w^th an ague better on day & worse another by fits & vncertenly

RN Margaret Billington. of Whaddon. 44 y Ap 8 ☿ h. 9. 20 ant m. 1629¹

RN francis Warrell of Shenly. 26 y cane {sic} for a stitch vnder her right syde was let blood Ap 26. ☾ 8. 45 \30/ ant m 1624