Casebooks

RN Mres Alwey for her litle daughter \An 9 y/ y^t hath y^e scurfe on her hed Iune 13. ♀ h. 10 ant m 1617

RN my Neece & lady Earsfild for her daughter 3 y March. 10 h {sic} hor 7 ant m 1632

\grpes {sic} in the pit of her stomacke belly & sydes/ a very hard belly worms suspected¹

Alooes mxed {sic} w^th rub did her no good

nor a bag {illeg}|o|f wormewood steeped in vineg w^th nutmeg applyed nor my oyntment of Savyn & wormewood

What I think of it & what may doe her good

RN M^res Knight of Newport for her sucking child y^t cries & writheth the necke. March 24 die ☾ h. 10. 50. 1600

An Knight of half a yere suckled in Gothurst.

RN Goody Blea for her litle child 3 y Ian 25 ☾ h. 8. 30 ant m 1619. /fundament cōmeth out 3 weekes\

RN Agnes Hoton. 7 yeres on sct Valentines eve being sunday amisse in her lims & tounge & feete & hath no sence nor feeling therin at first shee did fall for 2 or 3 dizeases. now hath lost the senc & vse of her lims

She cryeth & mutch cōplayneth o {sic} May the 12. die ♄. h. 10. ant m. 1599. pater et mater  filia quærūt remediū. det igitur pater cælestis  multis et magnis miserationibꝯ suis. at all times most cold. Costive.

RN Goody Blea for her litle child of 2 y. Ap. 11 die ♄ hor. 11. 45. ant m 160i swelled in y^e feete & face.

RN Goody Malins sent vnto me for her child to come to see it & to pray for it for shee doubted it would dye Aug 4. ♂ hor. 7. 15. ant m 160i was full of the pockes in throate mouth & eyes¹

RN Ione Barnwell of husb. Crowlye 26 y. 3 weekes married. but was ill ever since Christmas & was wont to bleede at the nose \& mouth/ mutch looketh ill & hath a drye cough & shaketh her very mutch. her wat^r of a very good colour. shortwinded.

An Dennet. 3. y: her wat^r is hie coloured hath motes & leeke cobwebs.

Robart Dennet. 2 yeres hath a reasonab. water but hath some scales.

Septemb. 4. die ♂ h. 11. 30. ant m. 1599.

RN Iohn Rachell of Elstoe 6 y Ap 27 h {sic} hor 10. 30 ant m 16i6. lame in the knes a fortnight ever sinc Goody Slone was denyed to bake w^th her /

feareth y^t on goody Slone hath wronged it.

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 lady farmer sent to me for her sons M^r Staffords boy about 3 quarters olde w^ch had y^e poxe. & byles & hath a sore throate nov{em}ber. 20 ♄ hor. 10. 50 ant m. 1602.

RN A|E|lis Wilx of Souldbery 2. y & bett^r Octob 20 {illeg}|♄| hor 11. 30 ant m 1632. /witch susp. w^th palsye. stoken lame in the back {out} any ground\ /mater  filia\

RN Iohn Windmill of Yardly Gubbin a twelmoneth old & as mutch as candelmas the sunday after candlemas. came & brought her Child y^t was payned in the body & had divers fi strange fits. but before it tooke it had a fit of an ague before it. not v this beating & panting began on friday night w^th a quivering & shakings of the belly & armes Apr. 10. die ♂ h. 7. ant m. 1599 goeth had|r|d to grounde cryeth

RN Goody Coo \of newport/ 40 y. Iune 1. ♀ h. 8 ant m 16i0.

every where./ cānot rellish any water.

Thomas Wythers of newport 3 quarters old Iune 1. ♀ h. 8 ant m 16i0

a great cold extreeme sick cā eate or take any thing

Goody Coo quærit an sit gravida cānot rellish anye thinge. ill this moneth.

RN The lady \An/ Butler for her m^r Oliver Butler 9 y next march bone {sic} 28 or 29 about 12 & on in the night. of Harolde sent to me for this child Ian 3 h {sic} hor 11. 45 ant m 1623 {sic}. extree {sic} weake & feeble & cā take no physick taken w^th strang fits plucking his \right/ syde & rūneth to his back being holden harde & an extree {sic} cough almost halfe a yere. & is pyned & cā not stand nor goe Ill tong suspected

RN Mres Dorrell of Lillingston Dorell for her feete. Aprill 15 die ♂ h. 10 25 {sic} 20 ant m. 1600.

Nath. Dorrell of 3 y olde cānot sleepe yet drowsy feare the wormes./ yet his belly soft:

RN Anthony Robinson 3 y cryeth of his belly maij 17|6| die ♀ h. 11. 40 ant m 1600 her moth^r brought it

RN Margaret M^res Hulles mayd 15 & M^r hulles somne {sic} 3 yeres old had lately the purpels & nowe full of spots blew, red & sanguine in his tempels face & browes. on day well. 2 days sick. a white water. Apr. 19 die ♃ h. 9. 15 1599. & {sic}

RN Iohn Robinson of Astwood very sick this monethe of 6 yeres cōplayneth of his harte very white & pale & leane growen w^th it. Asc: may the 17 die ♃ h. 10. 30. ant m. 1599. mater  filio. sine consensu |Elisabeth Burgo a maide to bespeake it. 6 {sic} of 60. kept of almes.|

RN An Gale of Goldington. 28 y Ian 7. h {sic} hor. 11. \30/ ant m. 1614 {sic} /looketh to be delivered on candlemas\¹

Margery Steaphenson & Ione Chāberlyn & Elis Gale & Ellen Warner so reputed

Edward Gale her Dau sonne 4 y. Well by fits & then cōpl of y^e hart.