Casebooks

RN Clement Nash servant to Iohn Connyngham 22 yeres old tooke her first on tuesday night qu about 8 a clock at night a crick {sic} \ache/ in her baccke \& lims./ y^t maketh her stoope & goe Double. troubled w^th a great heate of her stomack y^t it maketh her lips to break out he {sic} first water made in y^e morning red. the next water of a reasonable good colour. the wench of a ruddy face well colourd & fat. quait {sic} remediū Decēb. 4. die ☾. h. 12. 15. mi. 1598. of Newport

RN Thomas Atkins of Broughton 15 y servant to M^res Androwes taken in his lims armes hands legs stiffe on satterday last it tooke him. Ian. 12 die ♄ h 9. 40. ant m. 1600

RN Frauncis Longvile of 10 yeres old. very sick in his body sent his water this 27 of Apr. die ♀ h. 9. 52. ant m. 1599. stiffe of his legs & armes.

RN Edward Pen of Stonistrath 28. Ap. 17. die ♀ ant m 160i. stiffe in his legs backe weake.

RN Alce Bruer can not goe vpright but goeth Double vp by the fier hoven in the belly & payned in y^e bottome of her belly all|{aft^r}| a longe tine {sic}. sent Ih{one} Honour. Decēb. 15. die ♀. 11. 15. mi. 1598. worse when shee eateth any thinge.

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 Old Goody Barnwell hoven in body & hath a sincking in her feete & her lims stiffe & have no feeling. very Costive. may. the 18 16 die ☿. h. 11. 30. ant m. 1599.

RN Thomas Carter of Hexston 42 y Sept 22 ☾ h. 12. 15 ant p m {sic} 1606.

troubled w^th an atch in his hands & feete & armes stiffe his Daught^r of 13.

RN Michael Lambart suddenly taken w^th \a/ swounding fit \being at plow/ ☿ h. 1. p m. 1632.

& hath kept his bed ever sinc head & all his body legs stiffe as a stake |morbus Caducus|

RN Mres fayth Gybbes 50 sent to me againe the 5 of May. for a stiffnes in t & swelling & knobbes in t her wrest & inside of her wrests & hands, for a paine in her sinewes an {sic} an ache in her bones, hands & knees. altering from place to place. die ♄. h. 10. 30 m ant m. 1599.

RN An Haman 56 of litle brickhill: sick ever sinc Christmas not hart sick but swollen in her body & in her legs & very stiffe sent to me by her husband. Martij 22. die ♃ ♄ {sic}. 1. 10. 1599. very costive & as if shee were st{oun}ge & cannot rise except shee be lifted. very cold & stiffe & short winded & leekely to die 1599.

RN An Coo of Sawford 63|4| y Apr 4. ♃ hor 11. ant m 1605.

payned in her back y^t shee goeth Double./

RN Mres Dorothy Crooke of Chilton. 22. 18 y Ap. 9. ♂ h. 1. 40. p m 1609 |a payne in her legs./. stiffe & to full|

RN M^r Iohn Craply 2 y. the 25 of Sept last sent feb: 7 ☿ h. 10 ant m 1621 \of Pyddington/

a great scouring belly ill and stiffe they cānot buckle him

RN Agnys Ward of Ravensden 55|4| y Iuly 7. ☿ h. 9. 45 ant m. 1624 full of payne /neck very stiffe.\

RN Ihone Nelson of Moulso of 52 yeres old. sick this 14 yere. always vomiteth vp her meate espec. this last yere. keepeth nowe her bed it g{oo}gleth in her body. y^t w^c cometh vp is black as sote nothing given her will: make her vomit shee bendeth her selfe forward & always must reatch fleume sick her back & left side & keepeth her bed. & tumbleth vp all 10. 45. ant m 1598. shee feareth lest shee be wasted w^thin. 1598. die ☿ always cold feete hands novemb. 8.