Casebooks

SRN Marian Phelp of Blechly 40. y Septemƀ. 11. ♀ h. 10. a. m. 1635

Much payned in her chest & at her heart very shortwynded swelld & howen in her face hands & Body

\vomitts what she taketh/ hath not bin well since it thunderd & lightend when she came from Stoke goldinge on th{e} Sunday y^t it lightend & thunde{red} so much.

it first tooke her w^th sorenes in her throate

body Costiue. Vryne very thin & frothy, & cleere. hath bin married these 9. y. no child.

GJ Alice Lord of Kempson 25 y. May 5 ♃ ho. 10 30 a m. 1603

Keepeth her bed, trembles very much, A great payne in her backe her right hand and right arme swelled. Cryes of her bones and every where about in great payne./

GJ M^r Adrian Fortescue and m^rs Mary Fortescue have taken thrice of their physicke and wrought well w^th them, the gentlewoman sicke the first taking, and well since, her stomack better, but her head as it was

M^r Adrian sicke w^th his physicke on monday last and tooke none since he sleepes not well, is growen weake and his waxen kernells remayne. / my Lady thinkꝭ that if he continue so it will bring him to a consumption She desyres to have some course for m^r willm Fortescue 10 y. w^ch hath also an Itche. Desyres to be satisfyed how this Itche comes whether by overheating the bloud w^th violent exercise. & whether they shall continue the rest of the physike.

RW Henry Sheepheard. of Sympson. y. 60. d. ☾ h. 11. 30 ant: m: Feb. 28. 1620. hath beene sicke ever since Christmas. is swelled in his body: & his belly hard: legs swelled & hath a little issue in each of them: hath kept his bed these two dayes. Eateth his meate prettily well: is rather loose then costive

TG Ann stapp of stonystreetford 16 y. Mart. 15. h. 9. Mat. 1634. hath beene sicke this 14night. on wensday a stitch in her right side began, & now is pained in all her body. Exceedy|i|ng hote. Keepeth her bed can hardly stirre.

SRN Fayth Sage of High Lauer for a litenes in her head. & a papue in her Teeth & a trembling at her heart.

her Husband was taken with a payne in her|is| backe that he can hardly goe./.

SRN The old Lady Temple of Darsett 66. y. March. 29. ♂. h. 3. p. m. 1636.

The pills j sent her did worke very well & did her very much good.

Is now short wynded & much hoven in y^e stomacke & weake in her knees & A{illeg}k|nc|kles, as she was then

hath at this tyme a great hoarsenes & straytnes in her throate. desires the note of y^e Dyet drinke. & pills.

GJ M^r Mathew Claver of Foskett. sent his water w^th a letter April. 6. ☿ ho. 10. 6 a m. 1603 Wherin he Complayneth of a trembling hastynes and fulnes of his head & sences his body full of wynde, a great noyse in his left eare many tymes troubled w^th a stitche in the small of his backe. The mouth of his stomacke doth most annoy his head for w^ch he hath taken Conserve of Anthos

RW Anne Warr of stony stratford y. 46. d. ♂ h: 9. ant: m: Feb. 29 1620. a weake pale water. & windie: a weake stomacke: swelled in her face & head: if shee sitteth vp her feete swell also: desireth to drinke eateth nothinge but broth: & {illeg}|v|seth to sucke her water lettinge none of the substance to goe downe. troubled also with the whites too much: Gonorrhea. hath them too much

RW Clement Rulie d. ♀. h: 9. 25. p: mer: Feb: 1. 1622. taken suddenly w^th a riseing in \her/ stomacke w^ch is readie to stop her winde: her hands cold; highe coloured in her face & swetteth: hath a heate in her bodie

Anne Knott of Holcott a widowe 46. y. Feb. 11. ♃. h. 4. p. m. 1630

Is light headed & talketh very idley sometimes rageth & raueth, hath beene soe eu^r since Saturday, since yesterday hath beene very ill. cannot sleepe¹

SRN M^rs Cotta of Coventry 40. y. August 22. ♄. h. 10. a. m. 1635.

Subject to bleeding, hath a burneinge in the insides of her hands & the Soles of her feete. desires my aduise whether it be good for to bleed either by Leeches or in her feete.

RW Ioane Parkinson of Pirton in Hartfordsheire. y. 20. d. ♂. h: 3. 30. p: m: Maij. 1^o. 1627. moopish this tweluemoneth, distracted of her witts: fell ill first vpon a beatinge by her dame: no sence or vnderstandinge at all, nor a word frō her can be gotten vnlesse they anger her, & then she bids a rat on them they trouble her. hath them well. eateth vnreasonably m^r Hamond wrote for her in her behalfe a lustie wench

RW M^r Meridale of Great Brickhill for his Father \y: 70./ March: 6. h: 1. post merid: 1615. stuffed in his stomacke. pained in his head & backe, hath a cough & cold.

RW Beniamin Hubbins of Astwood y. 26. d. ☾ h: 1: p: m: Novemb. 20 1620. swelled in his left leg: yesterday his right leg was swelled but now it is come into his left leg: payned in his left eare, & so downewards. had a purge 10 dayes since w^ch wrought well & he was much the better for it: now worse then he was. complayneth more of heate then of colde then of heate. did complayne at the first more of heate then of colde. cannot sleepe.

RW Martha {Binion} of wooulson. y. 22. d. ☾ h. 9. 40 ant: m: Ian: 15. 1621. shortwinded: legs swelled yet not broken. payned sometimes in her backe & belly. hath them not sinc harvest.

RW Iames West of Banbury {y}. 45. d. ♂ h: 6. ant: merid: {S}ept: 25. 1621. extreamely {to}rtured in his backe, belly & {sid}es with paine. his stomacke {ve}rie hot & windie

U[1628–30] Thomas write {illeg} was borne on \the next/ satterday at night after on michelmus was twelmounth, betweene a 11 or 12 at|or| i3, a Clock but cam to me at 1 of clock, y^e 14^th: of march 1630./

had a quiuorin & sounding on michelmus last & 3 Dayes the after y^e small pox & then at shroftide & this last night had 3 fitts after the same manner a boue saide, being y^e 13^th Day complaines on the head & heauie & apt to sleepe

Anne Bignell of Eaton 19. y. mart. 19. ♀. h. 11. ant m. 1630

A riseinge vp vnto her throate, is in Labour, her rekoninge out a monthe Since, is strangly handled in her heade, vomiteth Bloude, swoundeth

SRN My Cozon Clare wright of Southwarke London. 50. y. Decemƀ 21. ♄ {sic}. h. 11. a. m. 1634.

hath kept her bed this sennight a weake bad digestion. her meate rises sometymes like hard egs w^ch causes a great payne both in stomack & backe.

she can eate little or nothing she desires to haue something to strengthen her stomack. /much troubled with a stitch in her right side with a continuall payne in her stomack.\