Casebooks

RN Mres Margaret Franklin of Bonehurst 24 y march 29. ☿ h. 10. 40 ant m 1620 \worst fasting/ hed full & dissye wyndy a cold stomacke hot liver full of melancholy greefe sinc her fathers death. face flushing hot & breaking out /vnmayed {sic}.\ /cold feete hot head\

RN M^r \Edward/ Plūmer of Holcot 50 y. 40 y feb 12 h {sic} hor 3. \20/ p m 1620

about cristmas face & hands mutch swelled as big as two stomack weake cā scarc keepe any thing. I {se}aled blood onc sinc y^t mutch payned in his head & mēbers at the end of making water it prickes & throbs w^th extreme payne

feareth an vlcer for it is as matter y^t cōmeth frō him & maketh it often. 4 tymes in an houre it hindereth slepe.

RW Ioane Parkinson of Pirton in Hartfordsheire. y. 20. d. ♂. h: 3. 30. p: m: Maij. 1^o. 1627. moopish this tweluemoneth, distracted of her witts: fell ill first vpon a beatinge by her dame: no sence or vnderstandinge at all, nor a word frō her can be gotten vnlesse they anger her, & then she bids a rat on them they trouble her. hath them well. eateth vnreasonably m^r Hamond wrote for her in her behalfe a lustie wench

RN Ioane Leavins of Imly 22 y a wench Decēb 23. ☿ h. 5 \4. 40/. p. m 1629¹

her secreat places burne exceedingly & swell w^th sutch payne y^t she cā hardly make water & yet maketh very litle

hath a Droutch y^t nothing well quench her thirst

hath a hot & a dry liver & a cold stomack

craveth a cooling playster for her liver hath 2 dig

wheath^r she shall vse her cels of pouder every day or oth^r day cānot make water/

RN Edward Brandon of Droughton 22 y a batch novēb 27. ☾ h. 2. 30 p m 1620 melancholy mightely troubled in mynd & cānot sleepe & costive head paynd & greatly payned in his stomack.

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 M^r Henry Ventres 21 y Octob 2. ☿ h. 2. 30 p m 1622. hed & face & body breake out in pinples {sic} & dye sodenly had a sore throat & mouth. vseth to bleed mutch at nose.

RN Elis Hurrell of Barton by Cambridge a widow 60 y sept 17. ☾ h. 7 30 ant m. 1627. Distracted of her wits sinc mydsomer. Doth Will curse & talk continually & be doing of some ill except she be tyed & will teare her cloathes & is senceles. fretfull & furious & cā sleepe litle light headed¹

RN Ioane Davis of Olny 43|7| 47 y may 5 ♂ h. 3. 30 p m. 1629 /nose blystering & sore\ /head ill legs broken out & Issuing\¹

RN M^res Pedder for her husb. plexed w^th greefe for certen writings cōmitted to M^r Nichols sonne & cānot sleepe to crave my counsell feb 12 h {sic} hor 6 p m 1620¹

RN Iohn Carne of Stony stratford but dwelling in London 26 y. Iune Iuly 1. h {sic} hor. 10. ant m. 1620

he was p^rsent full of melancholy hed mopish heavy cānot sleep. tooke great greefe

RN first of all taken in his bed w^th a great heavynes in his head Aug 3. ☾ h. 7 ant m 1629

first taken w^th an aguish fit

RN Katherine Grene /25\ first taken w^th \it tooke/ an arising frō her stomack ready to stop her wynd Martij 7. ☿ h. 11. p m 162i |is so sick y^t she cā take no rest.|

It tooke her in her hart & left sy right & short ribs pricking like needles. |suckleth a child halfe a yere old|

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 Mres foster {illeg}|o|f newp 23 y march. 18 ☾ h. 4 p m. 1622 /a huzzing in head like rayne w^th a gydynes a bad back flushing heat on the left syde of her head\

RN M^r Powell of London sent to M^r Cooke to have some thing to thicken his seed troubled w^th the gonorrea lyeth on his bed back els cānot sleepe is to may {sic} shortly wanteth virility & erection sweateth at night. Ian. 11 h. 8. 20 ant m 1623¹

RN Mary Brendlye of Olnye 27 y octob. 23 ♃ h. 2. 20|45| {sic} \45./ p {m} 1623. |a great trembling at her hart & shortwyded apt to swound A great heavyness of heart| /extreme desp sick when she styrreth but not resting\

RN Th Ellys of Raunson 50 y Iune 14. ♂ h 4 p m. 1625 /head ill a great cough & cold cānot sleepe ach in his bones\

RN troubled w^th strang convulsions the wench the morow on \St/ Stephens Daye ☾ sep a ⚹ ♄ ap ☌ ♀. p △ ♂ h. 8 ant m 162{6}|5| & swounded at that tyme & hath bene troubled w^th convulsiōs ever sinc

Marg Howlet taken w^th strang fits of convulsions & wythering of her face & neck S^t {sic} Decēb. 26 ☾ h. 8 ant m 1625

RN Mres Eliz child to the lord of Sunderland a yere & a halfe Ap. 24. ♀ 2. p m 1629

hath a cough & a great loose{nes} & eateth litle

quærit^r vtrū laborat Dentibꝯ ventre v^l vermbis {sic} metuit vermes stomach