Casebooks

RN Rob Hale of Winsloe came for his sister. Elis Hale of Winsloe growen sencles sinc thursd last. Iuly 28 ☿ h. 10. 30 ant m. 1630

RN Iohn Brawbrooke of soldrop in bedford shere 23 Iune {6} {sic} 7. ♃ h. 10. ant m 16i0

vide maij 29 \mopish sencles./ sine consensu

RN Raynold Nuewall of Bugdon 21. y Iuly. 11. ☿ h. 6. 36 ant m hor. 8. 20 ant m 16i0. in p^rsence senceles & mopish \mopish senceles/

RN Prudenc Hayward of kensworthe 21 y. Decēb 17 ☾ {sic} h. 8. 15. ant m 1605. in p^rsence.¹

They brought Prudenc Hawyord to my howse decemb 16 ☾ h 12 1605. but I was frō home they came agayne the next day & she was with them.

RN An Clark of Shitlington. 25 y. Apr {sic} mayed {sic} 2 y. & had a child 7 weekes sinc Apr 25 ♃ h. 10. ant m 1611 is sinc Easter as on mopish whose sences are gone¹

An Clarke of Shitlington 25 y Ap 25 ♃ h. 10 ant m 1611. mopish senceles.

RN Mary Goodmā of Newnton Blossōfild 27 y Septēb. 26 h {sic}. 10. 30 ant m. 1612. /{sen}ces gone by fit\ |last thursday at night h 11 Sept 10. ♃ h. 11 p m 1612 in her sences vntill the 3^day was past| |cānot keepe her cloathes on her back|¹

RN Iohn Collins Butler of Corpus Christi colledg 26 y Iul August 1. ☉ h. 7. ant m 1619.¹

RN M^r Bridget Sutton. of Patsthill 20 y. may ☾ h. 4. p. m 1632. |pater sine consensu| light headed & cōmonly senceles.

had physick & was let blood by m^r Iams yet not the better.

RN An Bozeat of Marston 27 y Iune 6. ☿. h. 7. 30 p m 1632¹

RN Ione Hammō of Hartf{ord}shere by Mres Brog{rave} 21 y Ian 7 ♂ h. {1} p m. 1623

Mres Brograve w{rote} in her behalfe.

Ione Hāmon \of Bullingford Westem⸫/ of Hartfordsheere w^thin a myle of mres Brograve 21. y. Ian 7. ♂ h. 1. p m. 1623. \was not present but in the towne/ not capable of senc mopish & foolish & obstinate. /was not then p^rsent\

RN An Savage of {illeg}|H|ardingt|e|stone 20 y march. 29 ♃. h. 1. p m 1632. |{was} p^rsent {sic}| |was p^rsent.|

An Savage of Hardingstone 20 y march 29 ♃. h. 1 p m 1632

brought a bed 6 weekes sinc senceles & witles no sences no memory at all speaketh she knoweth not what sencles /verse & froward sencles\ |she was p^rsent but senceles with out wit & memory.|

RN Ione Tomson of Great Horwood 22. y. Apr 18 die ♀ h. 9. 50 ant m 1600 mopish sencles foolish

RN Williā Palmer bereaved of his sences sometimes {t}alketh well & discreetely sometimes very f vainly & foolishly: vseth to lie a bed for the space of a moneth of 26 yeres of Grounden. h {sic} a batchelor this 2 yeres. he gave his word for xx^li & Driven to pay it some suppose this to have crased his minde. Ap. 2i. die ♄ h. 4. 20. mi p m. 1599.

RN Bidget Markū of Glouson Ap. 17 ☿ h. 6. 30 ant m 1622 /28 y.\ then the messeng spake vnto me for her

but her letter I rceaved {sic} & read Ap 16 ♂ h. 8. a|p| m 1622

her sences gone 6 weekes sinc {h}er mutch troubled in mynd & prayeth always & growen mopish & cry lord Deliv^r me frō Iue & water./

RN Iohn Peake of Heavencot by Tocetour 23 y a {I} {sic} wool wynder Ian: 21. ♀ h. 3. p m 1625.

frater  fratre |sine cōsensu| melancholia et delirio laborāte quæ illi divina videntia inflicta  subia taken in his trade & ritches gotten by his owne hands & industry, begā to growe ryotous & proud in his apparle & his monye w^ch he sayd he would lead to the poer. /othewise {sic} wary & sober now will sweare & talke idlely\ |no care of any thinge|¹

RN The noble lady of Westmorland \de la Spencer/ young S^r Rob Napers sister in Law by the maryg of her sister she Directed a letter to me touching a gentlewomā y^t wayteth on her on Mres Crost 21 y march. 15 ♃ h. 2. 25 p m 1627 /of Aptharpe\ /her wits & menory {sic} decayed & cānot be kept in her\¹

RN Raynold nuewall of Bugdon 21 y. Iuly. 11. ☿ 6. 30 \7. {sic} |6. 30|/ ant m 16i0 |frater sine consensu ty not p^rsent.|¹

they brought his water.

RN {illeg}|O|n of Wickam for his wife who is senceles & foolish first mopish & despairing & nowe is {sic} doth laugh & singe & knoweth not what febr 12 ☾ h 7. 16 p m 16i0. sine cōsensu.

Elisab. Trippe 26 y 9 y maryed. 2 childrē of Wickam. youngest a year old.

RN Elis: Ashwell of lāparte in northāpton sheere 6 myles from northāpton. 28 y August 19 ♃ h. 4. 30 p m. 1619. |was p^rsent|¹

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