Casebooks

RN on Savage of Tiffild came to me for his Daughter of 23 y troubled in mynd by a dreame y^t Sathan put into her head by w^ch by fits she is sorely troubled novēb. 9 ☿ h. 2. 30 p m. 1625

RN Agnys Godfrey of Thornborrowe Apr 22 die ♂ h. 2. 40 p m. a widowe 1600 head haunted & tempted this 12 yeres

RN Perkins a woman crased haunted by a sprite venit ad me quærens morbum 1597 maij 6. die ♀ hora 5. 15. m \hora {sic}/ 4: 45. |w^th love crased|

RN M^r {sic} Barker Barkley. 26 y Ap. 2. had a strong fit cursīg swearing striking & flinging Ap 2. ♀ h. 12. 30 p. m. 1624¹

RN Millers 1598 Iul. 14. die ♀ h. 7. mi. 12. 45 m. Thomas Richardson for his wife. to know what wilbe her end. about 30 yeres old. shee suspecteth shee hath bene bewitched light headed & talketh mutch of the devill shee can not speake sometimes in her fit letteth out her excrementꝭ.

RN Iohn Bolton of Byssetour 33 y Ap. 2. ♂ h. 11 ant m 1622 troubled in mynd w^th ill thoughtꝭ. & is very light headed & cānot sleepe a yere. had pils & was let blood last yere. the Divell Doth rū in his mynd./ |goody plowright susp.|

RN Michaell Adams of Over. 43. y. may 31. ☿. h 7. ant m. 1626.

melanch false feares touching sathans illusions fearfulnes of synne |apt to sleepe|¹

M^r Baker wrote in his behalfe

RN Henry Doe of Cranfild 23 y march. 1. ☉ h. 1. 25 p m 1607¹

RN Dorothy matts of whitechurch. 56. y. Iune. 15. ☾. h: 9 ant m 1618. buryed her ed|l|dest sons this day 6 weekes. & hath taken mutch greefe & feareth. venef. mutch troubled in mynd

RN Ione Ring Morten \Ringe/ of Cranfeild Disquieted in minde. came her selfe to me this 5 of may die ♄ h. 2. 15. mi. p m. 1599. amis ever sinc miklemas. 36 yeres. hath buried her {sic} first husb. & child

RN Iohn Marshe of Barnet 50 y. distempered in mind ob {l} {sic} veneficiū. et {vutpō} immisse in domū eius. feb. 18 die ☾ h. 8. ant m. 1600. filius  patre /Lunatice\

RN I came to M^r Potkins of lilly by the how 62 y feb. 4. ♂ h. 10. 15 ant m. 1606 |vxor  marito sine consensu./|¹²

RN Edmund Wootton of sawcy forest 30 y May 27. h {sic} hor. 4. p m. 1609 |p mer vxor  marito lunatico soror  fratre. sine consensu./|¹²

RN Thomas Langlye of Oxford 28. y. of {sic} Shrove mudaye {sic} \last/ neav^r mayed {sic}. a shipwrite a batch. Iuly 17. ♂. h. 7. 20 p m 1627 he was p^rsent cānot stay any where¹

RN Elis: Baldwyn of Dagnoll by Edgborugh 40 y a mayd feb 4 ♂ h 9 ant m 1634 /cānot sleepe M^r Marsh wrote\

brayne troubled will kill her father & the child sayth y^t she must make her selfe away

eateth greedely to serve the Devill

RN Georg Cockin of newp. 31. y mayed {sic} Decēb: 20: ☿ h. 12. 1620

16. y. troubled in mynd & discontented

raging

RN Iohn Smyth. of willing 24. y. Iuly. 2. ☾ h. 10. 1632 |head light mad headed for love.| /sayth he is bewitched & they will p{ey}\

RN Elis Cocken of Newp. first strangly & sodenly taken on holy thursday 26 y Iuli may 30 ♃ h. 5 p m 1622 Iane Goodmā craved Drink & she gave it to this Iane & it p^rsently tooke her & sinc neaver well but mutch tēpted & troubled w^th wynd¹

RN M^r Vincent Goddard her broth^r 23 y sent at boath these tymes maryed 3 yeres handled by fits aft^r a strang māner 12 days sometymes w^thout senc & feele as in a dead palsy but will not speake but cryeth at the begyning of his fit extreemely yet looketh well.

RN Henry Doe of Cranfild 23 y. ♂ h. 11. 30 ant m 1607 sine cōsensu.¹