Casebooks

RN An Grene of H Hauxstone 43. y. Iune 16 ☾ h. 4. p m 1623.

M^r Candle a grave old mā dwelling in Attleborough in Nortfolk 60 y. a Scrivenour & a physition mtch {sic} sought vnto & told M^r \Robart/ Greene y^t his wife was beworded. Isabell Free the mother & her daughter Iennet free/

He gave out y^t it was no ague but a spirit.

Old yardly of Dunīgham w^th in 2 or 3 myles of Newmarket a gentlemā scholler a great physition 80 yers old no physick nor bathing will helpe her but a learned mā.

RN M^r Snite of Warborough mynister a batch. placed fellow of Corpꝯ Chri College in Oxford & m chosen by the house to be son \Curate/ in y^t place 20^l a yere wrote most kindly in \the behalfe/ of Iohn Bislee his neighbour for his 3 child but specially for his sone Iames 2. y. Sept 12. h {sic} hor 4. 30 p m 1629

his child Iames is 2. y. sucketh still & will take a litle drink.

Iames 2. y.

RN Iane Ellys of Hanslop. 3. y Ap 13. ☾ h. 9: 56 ant m. 1612.

RN Thomas Marsholl 3 y Aug 10 ☉ h. 7. 40 ant m 1606.

RN Elis Church of Weste|m|yll 42 y novēb. 14. ☿ h. 12. 15 ant m 1632. |M^r Alexander Strange vicar of the place. a learned mā sent a letter in her behalfe| /hot in her frentick fits\

RN Mres Be\a/rry of Bedford 42. y. the 3 of may christened the fryday before came in son sept: 16 ☾ h. 2. p m. 1622 |pytifully cōplayneth|

GJ Sibill Fisher of Cokenho 23|4| y August 1. ☾ ho 12 15 p. m. 1603

Light headed laug{illeg}|h|es, but at first tooke it w^th a weeping lookꝭ ghastly. \a/ fleering lookꝭ settꝭ her teeth. one night did nothing but sweare and curse /

Sibill Fisher she knowes not of her husbandꝭ cōming for her, knowes nobody they bynde her handꝭ and feete. when she is loose she is so strong that they cannot Deale w^th her. singꝭ idle songꝭ. Desyres to daunce. She had 2 midwives the first vnskilfull the 2 froward & would not meddle w^th her because she was not first sent her, suspected to be a witche, the woman well layd but a weeke after fell into these fittꝭ & at first speaking of her 2 midwyfe sayd. what doest thou there w^th thy blacke hen. & such like speeches

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RN Elis. Earle of Blisworthe 20 y. ☿ 2|h|or 2. p m 1605. Iunij 19. ☿ h. 2. p m 1605. Distracted of her wits.

RN Rebecca Wallen of Westmyster {sic} but now hath layen at Bedford mayed {sic} 25 y. Ian. 7. ♂ h. 2. p m 1623

RN Audery Groome of Temple Cowly 21 y may 10 ♀ h. 7. ant m 1633. /was p^rsent\

RN Thomas Peacock 11. y of Brampton. may 29. ☾ h: 1. p m. 1626 /pater  filio wheath^r {i}{ll} {sic} ill words have done him hare {sic}\

wheath^r ill words have done him harme

a poor mā Rich Hūbersone & his wife more suspected it |he| was demāded to pay his rent to the Hoggard & he sayd he had it not /then Thomas Peacock the boys father syd {sic} y^t he must pay it & sinc his son fell ill\ & his boy p^rsently fell lame.

RN A{illeg}|g|nys Richards of Kettering 32. tuesd before palme sonday at twelfe at night her mother came for her w^th out her knowledg May 3. ☉. h. 8 50 ant m 1629¹

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 Mres Podder \the younger/ of Potters Perry 30|3| y Ap 30 ♃ h 11. 30 p m {sic} 1618.

hath not had the right course of her body these 3 yers.

feareth a cōsumption |& what is good to kepe her frō it|

vyyn {sic} very good.

would have a purge for her selfe & her husb. who feareth his father disease careth not for meate is Iealous of his wife being very honest & chast. & is sometyes {sic} lunatick & mad 4 y. & a halfe every 3 or 4 days.

he thincketh y^t he is bewitched w^th on a womā y^t gave his mother physick./

& M^r Pedders w{at^r} Ap 30 ♃ h.