Casebooks

RN Mres Elis: Reare of Easton 20 y novēb 2. ☿ h. 4|5| 3 p m 1608

The lady zancher for a sad pensive harte. & melanch. & purples in her bodye./

The lady Staffard for heare fallen & piling eyes red hands & melancholy

The lady Dormer farmer a soden feare after her sleepe a trembling.

RN M^r Hales the Earlle of Kents baylye Ian 26 ☿ h. 11 15 ant m 1625. /had a vomyt & a purge of me\ head litle mended 49. y. yet pils he took of M^r Windg every night paynd in his head about seaven

RN M^r Williā Hutchingson: 40. y: march. 28. ☿ h. 10. 25|0|. ant m. 1627. |vxor  marito a tale big mā. w^th yell hayre very mery & cheerfull by his owne nature & cōplexion taketh mutch tobacco pater  filio sine cōsensu/|

M^r Will: Hutchinson 40 y of Blūsā in Hutington {sic} sheere hard by Erith march 28. ☿ h. 10 30 ant m 1627.

a tale yell hayre very Ioviall & mery by his owne disposition very Kind & yet thrifty.

he was Chaplyn to B And |in| \his owne/ who bestowed on him a good sonage & p^rbend

M^r Hutchingson a p^rach a|&| a chaplyn to B Andros 40 y Iuly March 28 ☿ h. 10. 30 ant m 1627. /brayne distempered extree {sic} proud of his gifts Iealous of his wife\¹

RN Agnes fisher of Newport servant to Foster the carier 23 yeres hath not her Courses & is swollen in her legs & hoven in \about/ her harte. & cannot take her winde at 11. 30. mi p m {sic}. 1599.

RN Iohn Adams of Weston besides northāpton. \his father a Consellour mayed {sic} Iudg Harvyes broth Daughter/ \fath^r M^r Iohn/ borne the last day of Ap last h 6 30 ant m but sent to me Ian 2. ☾ h. 10. 20 ant m 1632.

ater {sic}  infante epilipt satt last was sennet h 8 30 ant m taken w^th a swounding fit about a quarter of an houre. having a {illeg}|r|ising in his stomak vp to his throate w^ch stops his breath.

RN Margaret Tarelton \Thorne/ the wife of Will Tarelton a tealer \of Newport./ 40 yeres old 16 yeres maried sick & hath had her disease growing vppon her this 12 monets {sic} & better quærit novemb. it taketh her every foote. Novemb. 13 die ☾. h. 12. 6. mi 1598. shee was so weak shee could not come but sent her servant mead it ariseth from her hart vpward to her throot ready to stop her winde

RN D Iames of Oxford st|ran|gly {sic} \straungly/ taken w^th a palsye on the left syde of the face hand & leg taken at church & great red blatches in t|H|is fac & bodye & his ey swelling & f|H|is face a yere before & sinc he contenting certen sup witches & on being acquitted he felt his strange stitch on his s {sic} left syde by fits he supposeth y^t the womā susp for a witch but quitted by the Iudges did hurte him the 24 of feb. ☾ sep a □ ♄ ap ☌ ♂ y^t night at sup first taken. had his first fit after he talked w^th m^r Rob. Conye. feb 18. in y^e after noone his first fit but his worst fit the 24 of feb when the sup witch was acquitted/

M^res Iames mentioned M^r Doctor Iames |of oxford| Ap. 20 ♃ h. 3. 20 p m. 1620 /she related all at this tyme/\

RN M^r kinge m^r whaly & the rest of the lecturers of Toceter sente vnto me that I would come over to see M^r Iansone a minister y^t is {sic} lyeth as it were in a despayre & cannot be comforted. by a letter Octob. 10 die ♄ hor. 6. 30 p m. 160i quæro vtru sit pos morbꝯ eius sit curabilis nec ne. freneticꝯ. desperabundus.

RN all my lord Hintens Wentworths men sorely handled w^th the the {sic} burning feaver./

M^r Edward Ferrers my lords \wentworths/ secreatary wrought wrote in there behalfe my lord & my lady mutch afflicted. for th {sic}is new for the sicknes of there servants. & craveth my best counsell sept 30 ☾ h. 11. ant m 16i6.

RN Mres Piggot gentlewomā to S^r Rich Anderson & governes to all his Daughters 30 y Ap. 4 ☿. h. 2. 50 p m 1632

languishing fearth eyther a consūption or the grne {sic} sicknes

|would be resolued| wheath^r it ceede frō her body or nynd {sic}

RN Radolp: french. 46. s minister of Stock hamon. 9 of november. die ♃. h. 11. 45. 30. for his reume & his wife. arising frō his belly to his chest leeke led hard & hoven in his belly full of winde |1598|

an his wife an ach & gydines in her hed.

RN Thomas White of Milten 56. may 22 die ♃ h. 11 30 ant m 1600 |a payne in his shoulders| payned in his head back & chest stuffed. faynt & feeble water good but yellowish. sande in his backe. a drye cough.

Susāna White of Milten ^Mres Androwes servant 18 a red coloured wenche legs sweld. hath the whites but very few of the reds. head & harte a swimminge.

RN Henry fish^r of Eastcot a serving mā to my lord Harrington 40 y febr 28 ♃ hor. 9. ant m 1605. crased in braine put out of service by his Mres for the love of a mayd.¹

he sent only to knowe when he should fynd me at home y^t he might come over vnto me./

RN M^r Dawson the kep of my lords wardrope his serv. novēb. 18 h. 8. ant 30. ant m. 1606 for a gowte in his hāds & feete/

M^r Sterope the Regist^r  ascaridibꝯ. belly 32 y novēb. 18. ♂ h. 9. ant m. 1606.

M^r dawson & m^r Sterope.

m|th|e {sic} lady Brooke

RN Iohn Kingstone of serv to the Lord of Lincolne Ap: 12 ♀ h. 2 15 p m 1633. |57 y|

Lame in the soales & ankles of boath feete mutch swelled & red 3 y. |a Dropsy feared| but lately more this halfe yere full of payne

sometymes cā eate litle for 2 or 3 days

I receaved from my Lord of Lincolnes steward a most kind letter.

RN Raynold Davyes of the glover of Stonystratford sent his boy w^th his water keepeth his bed most of all but sometimes riseth vppon the 11 of novemb^r it took him first, but was very ill handled w^th it vppon die ☉ sent his boy to me for my consell this 16 of novemb die ♃ h. 8. ant m. 1598 he thincketh he took it w^th a bruise he took w^th the caring of hides a yere since. 40 yeres old.

RN M^r Robert Sacker of Offord Darcye \son to M^r Rob. Sacker/ 29. y mynster batcheler a solliciter Iune 12. ♀ h. 2. 20 p m 1629 /natus Ian 10 ♃ h. 3 30 p m 1594\

RN Mathewe Walsore of Buckginham {sic} 30. musicꝯ. may 26 die ☾ h. 1. 3 26. p m. 1600

paynd in his \head &/ chest by reason of a wound receaved but healed w^ch maketh him cast. alwyys {sic} leane somtimes voydeth leeke matter & choler. spade bone of his shoulder perisheth his lungs. & francis Walso|ge|re 28. his wif paynd w^th a windines in her stomacke.

RN Henry vittle of Nosely serv: & butler & bruer to S^r Arthur Hazlerig 22 y feb. 16 ♃ h 8. 45 ant m 1632. /left leg swelled 2 or 3 y. on the knee.\ |M^r lightfoote wrote in his behalfe to serve Rich. Nap|

RN Agnys Kent of Moulsoe almost 5 quarters borne on Palme sonday last was twelfmonth about some {sic} rising sent to me May 14. ☿. h. 5. p m. 1628.

It is pyned & cōsumed belly hard & voydeth wormes living 6. wasteth in the body. was nurced by goody Keburne. goody Keburne came into another nurces house & would needes suckle it, wheath^r the nurce would or no & sinc mutch amys & it swounded twice to day belly very hard flesh quite wasted was not well tended by goody Keburne face swelled buttocke black & blewe. cānot stand vppon the lyms the child p^rsent w^th goody Alton of Moulsoe it did batle well vnder this nurce vntill goody Keburne her former nurce would suckle it force tooke some surfet.