Casebooks

RN S^r Francis Ventrys wrote a most kind letter boath concerning his owne love & desyres to take physick of me for his head & other infirmityes as also for his neighb page of Sheaford craveth pils

march 26 ☾ h. 2. 20 p m 162i

RN Margaret Mres Ruly. 50 yeres quærit qd sit vtile sit capitis dolori feb. 7. die ♂ ♄ {sic} 10. {illeg}|1|0 ant merid fil.  matre

S^r. Gervase Clyfton of Clyfton Basset in Notinghamshire. 50. y. Febr. 16. ♄. h. 8. p. mer. 1633

S^r George Peckham & M^rs Throckmorton writte Letters in his Behalfe.

much pained in his head is of a sanguine Complexn

RN Goodmā Miles came to my howse for Iohn Leach y^t was sicke & ill diseased in his hed & an ague w^th it Decēb. 5|4| ☿ h. 4. 30 p m 1605.

RN on of Huntingtonshere of Gyddyn |An Rowe of great Gyddyn| |53 y| hed paynd & eares. came for. his wife {h} Aug 11 ♀ h. 11 12. 1620

RN Ward for his wife of Ravensdon Octob 18 ☾ h. 9. 25 ant m 1624

head & neck & heavye

feareth witchery

venef metuit

RN Dorothy Hooden of Adington 50. came her selfe. may the 7|8| die ♂ h. 11. 40. mi ant m 1599. a payne in her hed & very full. & disquieteth her sences.

RN M^res Potter of willing sent for her husb. w^th out his consent at 10. 10. ant m 1599 1600 cannot sleepe his water betwixt yellow & red thick leeke puddle. his stomack hot & his tounge scab & broken out & his head cannot move but as he is turned.

RN Rich Kerby Miller of Newport 60 \56/ yeres old. long & grevously sick {filiu}s  patre \{servus}  Domino/ cū euꝯ {sic} consensu it hath held this 4 yeres by fits but this quarter of this yere held him sorely & keepeth home some days his bed in his fit & then abroad. a payne in his hart w^th a sighing black coloured very fat of his face but w^th this sicknes shrunk in his bodye & legs. M^r yarrow for him novemb. {sic} 1 Decēb. die ♀ h. 10. 15. 1598¹

RN M^r George Burye for his wife troubled w^th melancholy & sudden passions. troubled w^th windines & payne in her stomacke & dissynes in her head. May. the 12. die ♄. h. 11. 15 ant m. 1599.

RN M^r Brough for a gentlemā a frind of his an {sic} a guest who is troubled w^th the heate of the liver ascendeth vp to his head & throote every night & into his legs as it were a dropsye & voydeth more vpward then downward taken mutch w^th a cold Crampe that he cannot styrre febr. 26 die ♂ ♄ {sic} 10. 30. ant m. 1600 & for Goody Barnes a baker of stony stratford

RN may 8 at fryday it tooke him about 12 in the night it first tooke him in his legs w^th a shooting & sinc it rūneth vp into his hed making him to talke idlely a light head |Is grown starke mad.|

RN Rogar weaver of East Claydon 55 y Iune 19 ♃ h. 7. 45 ant m 1606

for his eyes dynes & hed ach.

also for his wifes eys & perles w^thout cōsent

RN Iohn Harrison of lit Woocom. 8 y. Iune 13 die ♀ h. 11. 40 ant m. 1600 payned in y^e head & belly. his fath^r gone from his mother.

Ellen Harrison 50 y. hath to many of y^e whites

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

SRN Fayth Sage of High Lauer for a litenes in her head. & a papue in her Teeth & a trembling at her heart.

her Husband was taken with a payne in her|is| backe that he can hardly goe./.