Casebooks

RN Mres Duncōbe sent vnto me for her eldest Daughter of 18 y sept 24 ♄ hor 9. ant m 1603 her wat^r good motes in it

& for on M^r Barber. whose wat^r hath red sand armes & backes & should^r a bad stomacke

his wat^r hie coloured full of dregs & heares.

RN Rich. yeatꝭ of Cliften Rayles of 50 yeres old hath kept his bed ever since {D} {sic} March last yere lieth in his right arme & left foote & in his backe & syde. may 5. die ♄ h. 12. {11}|30|. m. water whitish & thin & full of scales & motes \& black melancholye/ but thrice vp. ever since

RN Goody Reeve of our towne brought my God daught^rs water novemb the last 30 ☿ hor. 4. 15 p m 1603. miserablely payned in her left syde backe should legs

GJ Agnes Walden of milton malsworth 5 y. Iune 15 ♀ ho. 2 p. m. 1604

Complaynes of her belly and hart/

RN Thomas franckling 8 y sept 29. ♂ h. 2. 38 p m 1607 stomack & hed

RN Cicely foster of hanslop 43 y may 20 ☾. h. 4. 39 ant m 1622 had no child this 20 y was swelled in her legs a quarter of a yere & now quite gone vpward & her belly is mutch swelled & her thigh & mutch gryped about her navell and casteth for this halfe yere y^t w^ch she taketh most cōmonly & keepeth her bed this fortnight desyreth but my prayers./

RN An Potter of newport of Tickford end 2 y feb 2. ♃ hor 10. ant m 1604. mater  filia sine consensu. sick every place eyes & cheeke.

RN Iohn Burtons wife came her selfe for her husb of havershā 40 y. novemb. 5 ♀ hor 7. 45. ant m. 1602. his chest belly backe

RN Elis. Hidding of Olny 9. y feb. 17. ♂ h. 12. 1607 armes backe.

RN francis Chaplin of Hardmead 5 y. Ap. 23. ☿ h. 8. 30 ant m 1617 |hed & belly \hed back chest/ cā take no rest hath a cough|

RN Susan Ansell of Ekleford 8 y Ap. 8 ☾ h. 11. ant m. 1622. |belly & navell.|

RN An Malins 5 yeres maij 18 ♂ hor. 11 ant m. 30 m p m 1602. vrina bona head & backe. & cold.

RN Mres Mary Hazelrigge 10 y maij 8 ☿ h 11. 20 ant m 1605

M^r Donald Hazelrigge 5 y voydeth mutch filth at h at boath his nostrels stincking not sick w^th it c{orre} feare of some Impostumation of hed.

RN Henry Potter of husb. Crow{illeg}|le|y. 7 y Iune 20 ☾ h. 2. p m 1608. had an ague & nowe it is fallen into his legs hips thighes. & cānot goe for it mutch payned

RN Water Cheese of Stony stratford borne the last night being ☉ about betwixt 5 & six 20 weekes sinc. her disease & first fit tooke it feb 21 ♃ h 4. p m 1611. it did shake w^th the hands & wryteth {sic} y^e mouth & hed & clutcheth the hands & grypeth. & falleth. the first daye 2 fits. yesterday & this day may {sic} fits.

water good.

{sen}|{wro}|te to me febr. 25 ☾ h. 4. 15. p m 1611.

RN M^r Nichols of Wing for on of his fellowes \Edwards Gardiner/ growen into y^e scurvy & dropsye y^t before a yere sinc was recovered only by scurvygras now growen swelled his legs thighes & belly are very mutch swelled his appetite de{i}ected & 70 y cā take no purge fat corp & well coloured Ap 6 h {sic} hor. 7. 25 ant m 16i6. |breath short|

RN Iohn knight of this towne 9 y Iune 15 ♂ h. 11. 30 ant m. 1619. |hed & belly swelled.|

RN M^r Charlet of great Brickhill. for his sonne M^r Iohn Cha{r}let 18 y sept 13 ♃ h. 11. 20 ant m 1627 /a waterish stomake hed ach\

RN M^r Haselrig of Alderton 40 y Apr 15 ♂ h. 11. 25. ant m. 1606 soluble this fortnight 5 or six stooles a day. not weake w^th it.

yellowish wat^r.

Mary Hazlerig his Daught^r. 11 y Apr 15. /hed ach.\

Donald Haselr: 6. y Apr 15. breaketh out in his face./

RN Rich Kerby Miller of Newport 60 \56/ yeres old. long & grevously sick {filiu}s  patre \{servus}  Domino/ cū euꝯ {sic} consensu it hath held this 4 yeres by fits but this quarter of this yere held him sorely & keepeth home some days his bed in his fit & then abroad. a payne in his hart w^th a sighing black coloured very fat of his face but w^th this sicknes shrunk in his bodye & legs. M^r yarrow for him novemb. {sic} 1 Decēb. die ♀ h. 10. 15. 1598¹