Casebooks

GJ Elsabeth Hayes of Turvy 43 y Octob. 18 ♂ ho. 9. 50 a m. 1603. |wind in the stomacke.| A dry Cough An Itche and as it were a dry scurfe. Hath a Childe of 2 yeere old sucking on her, the childe very poore & will take nothing but the brest can neither go nor speake: borne the saturday fortnight after midsomer 1601 betwene 8 & 9 at night quiet in the day but very vnquiett all night. very cold, swelled in the body of late. the mother nunquā habuit menstrua since she had this child.

RN Mres An Barber of Kensworthe 46|5| y. sept 28. ☿ hor 9. 16|5|. ant m 1603.

was borne {illeg} {sic} on a {tuds} \shrovesōdaye/ after noone. an hour betwixt 4 & 5. /hath often bene let blood sicknes gone this 4 yeres.\ |extreeme hot. casteth vp sometymes leek whitꝭ of egge. sometymes blacke stuffe.|

Mres An Barber sept 28 ☿ hor. 9. 15 ant m. 1603. strangly handled w^th her stomack burning & gnawing & then an intolerable paine of her hed for 20 houres not well for 40 houre & then it cōmeth once in a weeke in the wynter. & aft^r hath a swelling & a gnawing in the calfꝭ of her legs.

RN Alce Parkyns of Woburn his wife novemb 26 ♄ hor 10. 40 ant m 1603 faynt shortwyded trēbleth.

RN Thomas Browne 8 y / tooke a bruse & pyn{eth} w^th it & cōsumeth of Thurlye. martij 5 h {sic} hor. 12. 40. p m 1603

RN Chrystopher Woodfild lying long sicke wrote \sente/ vnto me to come to him martij 31. ♃ hor. 1. {p}|15| p m 1603. troubled w^th a shortnes of wynd ready to stop his wynd an aso{illeg}|m|a. hed gydye a burning in his body desyrous to have his neighbours forgive him as making no oth^r reckning then of death.

RN Anoth^r came for her sonne to M^r Gerenc at the same tyme for a wonderfull gryping /& castinge\ tab j.

RN Margaret Newmā 40 |34| y Iuly 8 |7.| ♃ hor. 3. p m 1603 of hanslop¹

RN Frauncis Tomson otherwise Miller of hanslop. 24 y. febr. 19 h {sic} hor. 11. 3{0}|45| ant m. 1603. for a deafnes & rūning in his eares & a beating & bussing in his eares /matterish geere.\

GJ Willm̄ Foster of Lowton 40 y. March. 3 ♃ ho 11. 55 a m.

For a great cough and flegme w^ch he cannot well reare but sometymes a litle w^ch stincketh much

RN Alce Dyer of Newport Martij 21. ☾ hor. 10. ant m 1603. 60 yeres old. for a great scouring & itch

GJ m^r Anthony Chester of Chicheley 11 y. Maij 28 ♄ ho. 2. 40 p m. 1603. A Dry Cough.

RN Ellen Wels of Safford. 28. y Octob. 5. ☿. hor. 1. 45 p m 1603. faynt & feeble.

GJ Willm̄ Harryson of Astwood Octob. 8. ♄ ho 11. 20 a m 1603.

A cough. Cannot sleepe

RN Wylliā Saunders alias Burton 60 y of Redburne Novemb 2. ☿ hor 6 p m 1603. piles bloody flix.

GJ Anne Stoakes of Ockley in Bedfordshere 50 y. Ian. 17 ☾ ho 1. 45 p m

a noyse in her head. Deafenes

RN Elis {illeg}|B|ensene of Turvye 29 y. maried 2 child on a suckling Decēb. 24 h {sic} hor 10. 30 ant m 1603. lame in her armes & legs & swelled cānot goe but as shee is led.

GJ Iohn Hopkyns of great Brickhill 52 y. Febr. 17 ♃ ho 11 15 a m 1603 A payne in his necke And head pricking makes him vomitt

GJ Mary Gilbert of Broughton 23 y maried 3 y. never had Children May 9. ☾ ho 8 a m. 1603

She lay speechles 24 houres |last week| very weake keepes her bed a thicke high coloured water Her belly swelled thinkes her self to be w^th Child

RN Iohn fisher of Havershā 27 a servant August 27 h {sic} hor 2. 35. p m 1603. for a great byle & rūning sore in his necke y^t swelleth every yere.

RN Wylliā Harryson of Astwood 50 y sept 12 ☾ hor 9. ant m. 1603 for a swelling in his necke & throate w^th a great burning. cānot swallow any thing