Casebooks

RN Elisabeth Bans nata the sunday being the 14 of Iuly amo {sic} d 1594. had a sore fit Iuly. 9. 4 fits in the aft^rnoone. die ☿ h. 12.30 p m. 1600

RN Will: Blea borne the 30 daye of Novemb. die ♂ h noctis \p. merid/ about h p m. 4. 1596. troubled every day with fits startling & skik stare & tok him it took him on tuesday last

RN his first fit tooke this child Ian 25. ♀ h. 3. p m 1605

RN Robart S {sic} \Sandy the child./ anoth^r extreme fit Decēber 30 ♃ hor 13 {sic} \12/ 50 m. 1602. |♀. h. 1 50 ant m 160{2}|

RN Will: Ienygs of Drayton. 3. y. Iune 2. ♂ {sic} h. 10. ant m 1619 |fits.|

RN Ieremy Constable \of Olny/ taken yest \Ian 23./ ☉ h. 9 p m 1620

4 or 5 great fits

RW Elizab: Meyers of shittlington y. 9. d. ☿. h: 10. 30. ant: m: Martij. 15. 1620. taken with strong fits wherein she would knock out her braynes

RN Taken w^th this fit Iu{ly} {3} ♃ h. 22 5 10. 40 ant m 1623

RN a Child of 20 weekes troubled w^th convulsive fits feb 11 ☉ h. 12. 39 p m 1627

RN Sept 14 ♀ h. 9 p m 1632 had her first fit

RN Ian 19 19 ♄ hor 10 p m. had her first fit w^th great panting and sighing 1622 |primꝯ morbi Insultus|

RN Th. Earsfield taken first w^th a a {sic} violent convulsive fit noveb. 27 ♃ h. 9. 30 ant m. 1623.

RN mres Franke Latch hath not had so many nor so sore fits as before vsing the powders & her ring & keeping an Issue always open novēb. 15 ♃ h. 5 p. m. 1627

novēb 11. ☉ in y^e morning had 2. sore fits

RN An Smyth of Stony stratford 30 y mayed {sic} feb. 20 h {sic} hor 3. p m. 1619. 12 days sick. lyeth like a Chisone {sic} child all the day & always at night behave her selfe like a bedlome & hath in her mad fits cut of a great peece of her tongue cānot sleepe these 12 days but lyeth broad awake

RW Richard Coles \Sharpe/ of this towne y. 4. d. ☾ h. 2. p: m: Nouemb: 27. 1620.

troubled w^tha paine in his backe. something cometh ouer him hee sayth at night about 8 of the clocke. screameth & scratcheth when the fit cometh: w^ch is always about 8 of the clocke at the night.

RN Mres Iēnyngs strangly taken w^th sore fits of convuls Ap 13. h. 12. p {sic} at mydnight 1623. /sine consensu\

RN Th. wats a yer old feb 6 ♂ h 8 ant m 1627

This child had 3 fits febr 6. ♂. h. 8 ant m 1627/3 fits this day\¹

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 {Eli}s: younge of Aynoe 3 y march 5. ♃ h 3. p m 1629 May 6 2 y ill & taken w^th swonding fits boath vp & awake & also in his bed asleepe |sine Consensu|¹

RN Thomas Dudly nowe 5 yeres old next miklemas natus erat Sept 15. die ☉ h 1. p m. hath his health well & eateth his meate. about harvest last began to have a rising in his throte ready to stop his wind & speach in always when he beginneth to sleepe then it hath held him sinc miklemas the last time it tooke him it bete him on friday last. going to sleepe. ready to skreame & skrike in the fit.