Casebooks

RN Mary farrow of Earles Barton was 14 y last twelfday last the morne after on satterday morning in y^e morning before day came to me for her right hand broken out like a great bloody sore & vnder her armes w^th bunches thighes & hips w^th many issues all looke red & bloody hād swelleth mutch may 5 ♂ h. 11. ant m 1618.

was full of bleatch being a child & was noynted & neaver sinc well.

kings evill hath bene w^th the king but smal amendmēt

RN S^r Rog. Poolyston came to cōfer w^th me touching his Palsy & convulsions & vertigo. having a lamenes in his left syde & weaknes in his legs Octob. 12. ☾ h. 2. 30. p m. 1618.

RN M^r Longviles man cane {sic} for his armes full of hard knobs & his leg of aches at 5 of the clock p m Martij 25 die ☉ h. 5. p m.

RN Elisabeth Smith 30 yeres old 9 yeres maried. never had Child it cometh by fits twice a weeke of a good colour red faced & fill {sic} of blood lieth in her hed & so ariseth from her hart & stomack vnto her hed. her face & syde swelleth. her vrine is red & full of rags. came in her owne son & then was very well of Decemb. 4 die ☾ h. 2. 1598. dwelleth at Emerten right side of her hed.¹

RN my Cosen Germā of Exeter Colledg. came to me may 25 ☿ h. 9. 15 ant m 1631

for a hed|a|d ach & payne in his eye w^th a hot rheume./.

SRN Martha Harper servant to my sister Kate Tyringhā Octob. 29. ☿ h. 4. 40. \30./ p. m. 1634.

A fullnes in her stomacke & a payne at h er heart, a great trembling vpon any discontent at her heart At this tyme she brought her water to me./.

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 Agnes Gery of Ol{ny} 27 last miklemas vnmaried. came her selfe the 3 of Ian. die {☿} h. 10. 5. 1599. /short winded heavy, bad head hart. hoven in her chest\

RN Agnes Kinge servā to M^res Burchmore of tottle end 22 y payned hart stomack & head. sodenly ready taken at night for an hour lost her speake munday last about 12 a clock at night came in her owne son Ian 14 die ☾ h. 1. 30 p m. 1600.

RN Anthony Ballard of Elstoe 21 y May sunday before Christmas about 4 {sic} {2}|4| in the morning came to me May 2 ♃ h. 2. 30 p m 1622 satt next a fortnight. had     is lame in boath feete {illeg} his ankle is gone out very mutch. worst in h{er}|is| right leg. w^th lamenes & ach in the bottone {sic} of his feete & goeth very straddlingly & pitifully

RN Alce Buttyphant of Chichly borne a fortnight a fore Miklemas day on {sic} a tuesday on wedensday even about an houre or 2 after sonset pater  filio {sic} came to me almost dead on sct Thomas eve. troubled w^th the Chin cough. Decemb 30. die ♄. h. 1. 53. 1598 w^th a hooping ready to stoppe her wind now it falleth into a bleeding at the nose

RN May 17. h {sic} hor 6 a|p| m 1606.

a mā came to me for a bruise w^th a cart & syde & legs swelled to know wheath^r good to let him blood.

RN Ihone Smith came to me for a remedy & for my counsell demaunding of me wheath^r it were good to let her bloode. for shee is payned in boath of her armes. backe y^t shee ca scarce remove her cloathes being a bed. 1598 Apr. 22. die ♄. h. 8. 6. mi. a swimming in the heade

RN Iune S^t Iohn Baptists day Iune 24. ♀ hor. 6. 15. a. tall mā of Whaddon came to me for a kernell in his necke & anoth^r for a longe deafenes of 6 or 8 {illeg}|y|eares heareth but vnderstandeth not well what he heareth. ant m 1603.

RN my godson \Rich./ wyndnyll 15 y 3 weekes before Christmas sent to me \came/ feb 15 ☉ h. 2. 20 p m. 1624.¹

RN About 3 M^r Caroll came to me vttering his secreatꝭ

ever sinc mikle alhalloutyde y^t he bought a purchas neaver well but feeleth him selfe very faynt & drye & exceeding thirsty in his stomacke & mouth & on the end of his tongue./ & as he Drinketh maketh water continually after drinking |cānot follow any busynes./|

Costive onc in 2 or 3 days./

RN Mary Knight of Newport 12 yeres old at Easter Deafe this 8 yeres. for 4 yeres well. hearethe very hardly & at some times heareth better thē other her eares run & then shee heareth best shee came w^th her mother this 12 of Decēb^r die ♂ h. 10 12. 39. 1598. of a very pale Colour. a drye huske & a bad stomack breaketh & {illeg}|out &| looketh ill.

RN Williā Miller Smithe of Brodwell mutch payne in his Chest & stomack vomiteth long ropes of fle{me} in 24 houres sinc Christmas. especially when he eateth meate. came to me this 5 of Ian die ♀ h. 12. 45|9|. 15{99}

RN Katherine Giles of Hanslop. a widowe 60 yeres troubled w^th a hot winde in her belly troubled w^th a greate laske. almost this 12 moneth. cane {sic} to me this 20 of March die ♂ h. 2. 30. p m 1599.

RN Mary Smith the widow{s} Daught 40 y maij 8 ☿ h. 6. 25. ant m 1605 came to know wheath^r shee were not to be let blood for her aches in her armes Hucklebone y^t she cā scarce goe had not her termes this 3 yeres.

rūneth into the outsyde of her feete.