Casebooks

RN Edw. Nash of North Crowly 4 y. Th nash. 3 quarters old Ap 8 ♀|☾| h. 3. 20 p m. 1622 troubled w^th a mighty cough.

RN Henry Hazlewood 11 wee{kes} old strangly handled & lyeth dead 3 o{r} 4 tyms a day w{^th} convulsions feb. 2{8} ♂ h. 11 ant m 16{32}

RN The lady \An/ Butler for her m^r Oliver Butler 9 y next march bone {sic} 28 or 29 about 12 & on in the night. of Harolde sent to me for this child Ian 3 h {sic} hor 11. 45 ant m 1623 {sic}. extree {sic} weake & feeble & cā take no physick taken w^th strang fits plucking his \right/ syde & rūneth to his back being holden harde & an extree {sic} cough almost halfe a yere. & is pyned & cā not stand nor goe Ill tong suspected

RN Suddenly taken in his \right/ arme the vse taken away payned in the throate swelled w^th a cough & taken w^th strong & strang fits & is very hot in his fits w^ch continue above halfe a day feb. 17 ☉ h. 12. p m. 1628

RN M^r Worcesters child of Olny a quarter of a yere old taken strangly w^th convulsions Aug. 1. ☿ h. 11 p m 1627¹

RN Goody Gale for her Thomas Gostick a yere & a halfe old borne the weddensday after mysdsomer. sent Ian. 28 ♂ h. 11. ant m 1623.

It doth pyne & eate litle & doth not sper nor cānot goe it is so weake.

Elner Warner her next neighb. Elis Steaphinson who dwell boath togeath^r her mother hanged

cānot kepe his water.

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 Bawsell of Stoake goldin 2 y & a halfe pleth & well coloured may. 3 ♃ h. 1 p m 1632

Convulsions quivering & quaking & lay as on dead halfe an houre/. was p^rsent susp witch. apt to sleepe /skreameth\

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 Elisabeth Turuye of husb Crowly: 2 y. old. miserablely payned & consumed away & yet somewhat the better sinc I gave her somewhat came againe Ian. 5. die ♄ hor. 10. 15. ant m. 1600.

RN Goody Knights child 9 y feb. 22. ♃ h 8 ant m. 1627 |falling sick a burning feaver|

witch feared by her mother

RN Wylliā Morgen borne lāmas day was 6 yeres being eith^r ♀. or ☉

wylliā Morgen of laundon 6 at lāmas last Ian. 23. h {sic} hor. 12. in m. 1608 /bleedeth still when the ☾ is in ♈ or ♌. margery Bagly suspected\

RN Williā Morgan 6|7|. y the sonday aft^r lamas daye. & then lamas day was on frydaye about evening prayer. about 5 p m 1601. 1606. \August: 3. ☉ h. 5. 2|3|0/ 1600 {sic} p m 1600 hath bleede sinc very mutch. waterish blood. ✝ Margery Bagly suspected./

RN Iane Smyth of Easton Madith 9 y six weekes after milkemas ☉ night ab h betwixt 9. & 10. in sent heath^r Iune 11. ♂ h. 7 ant m. 16i6 /voydeth wormes now & then a xj wormes at on tyme\¹

RN a womā of Newp brought a child of 4 weekes old Decēb 29 ♀ h. 12. 1626. sup on goody Bechā Did harme it

the child wasteth & cōsumeth & so did another of her child y^t dyed before

RN sorely handled w{^th} strang fits of con{vul}sion decēb. 12 h. 4 ant m. 16{24}

RN Th. Hadyn of Dedington 2 y Iuly 20 {illeg} Iuly 18 ♀ h. 10 ant m 1628 dyed strangly. on sonday of an Impostume & a great bunch.

RN This strang fit of convuls. tooke it Iuly 14. ☾ h. 5. 30 p m. 1628 \of Calverton/ An Iames taken at this tyme first

RN Iohn Windmill of Yardly Gubbin a twelmoneth old & as mutch as candelmas the sunday after candlemas. came & brought her Child y^t was payned in the body & had divers fi strange fits. but before it tooke it had a fit of an ague before it. not v this beating & panting began on friday night w^th a quivering & shakings of the belly & armes Apr. 10. die ♂ h. 7. ant m. 1599 goeth had|r|d to grounde cryeth

RN Robart Kent of Walton 2 yeres old. on friday afore Christmas. about 11. 30. mi. consumed to nothing had a bunch vppon his thiges {sic} broken out & pined any face the best t of him. Ap. 9. die ☾. h. 10. 25|30|. mi 1599. cannot stande. nor goe very well. it doth cough. Katherine Parkins gave thē hard wordes.