Casebooks

RN Goody Keburne is speachles or cānot speake well & vtter her words plainly Sept 1 ☾ h. 6. 20 ant m 1628 /of Moulsoe\

RN Margeret Brace of Carington about 30 yeres old. Octob 6 die ♀ h 1|9|. \9/. 38. sick for this 3 weekes. 1598. speachles & almost Dead. about a fortnight a goe. & did bleed wonderfully

this woman sente vnto me by the vicar of Crowly but I would give her nothing vntill I had spoken w^th some y^t knew the state of the woman the vicar sent Iohn ball. the woman mended p^rsently vppon it.

RN M^res {B} {sic} Blundell sent to me to come to her daught^r. y^t was very sicke & speachles ever sinc the 14 of Ian. die ♄. at night. 1598. mittit  me Ian. 20. of ian die ♀ h. post merid. 1. 45 /who hath her speach againe\

mother for Susan Bludell {sic} speachles sent for me to come to her Ian 20 ♀ h. 1. 45 p m 1598.

sine cons. epilepsia /verius erecta.\

RN Agnys Hop{illeg}|k|yns 33 of Sylson marid 6 child. Ian 16. ☾ hor 6 \30/ p m 1604. thursday night delivered of a child still borne. not knowing y^t shee was w^th child. speachles. voydeth mutch blood Downeward. swoundeth mutch.

RN And Mary Robarse Robartꝭ at the same tyne {sic} her breath as sopped {sic} cānot speak an Impostume feared

RN Elis Wyndmyll of Hanslop. 54 y Iune 28 ♄ 1. p m 1623. /Doth faulter in her speach\

RN Sara Cox of Northhāpton. 20 y Aug. 19|8| ☉ \h {sic}/ h. 10 30 {sic} \11. 30/. p m 1610 sodenly stroken & fell in a swound. & was taken in her right syde, nor could speak ever after it. {wri}th her mouth. was very mery before {illeg}|th|is took her.

RN The lady Dorothy Iennings for her child taken w^th the epilepsye about 10 weekes 13 y Ap 25. ♃ h. 1. 45 p m 1622. hearing y^t I have helpen may {sic} in y^t kind hath written to me to come to London/ /her speach is taken from her by fits for a day & keepeth her bed\

RN An Wade of Hampsteede daught^r to S^r Williā Wade. 14 y this next may taken in her tongue ever sinc 4 yeres old. & doth stūble & stuttle & cā scarce bring fourth a ready word. Ap. 23. ☉ h. 12. 50 p m 1615. mater sine consensu

RN a rising vp ready to choake her voydeth vp flegme & blood & swoundeth often sinc last night about nine & cānot speake feb 2. ☿ h. 9 p m 163i |body swelled| /speachles\ /An Impost feared\ |neav^r had child|

RN Margery Clark a midwife of Stony stratford sick at hart y^t shee cannot speake can scarce travell her thighes & legs doe swell. 51. a thick white puddle wat^r. March. 19. die ☾ h. 4. 20. m. p. m. 1599.

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 Goody Marcholl of Woulverton came to tell me howe her daughter was miserablely handled & cannot speake in her fits. 28 of feb. die ☿. h. 6. 15. 1599. sine consensu.

RN |1598.| Mater  Susan filia gravit^r ægrotante et loquela privata 14 Mart. die ♂.

RN Mary Carecke fell sicke about maij 2. die ♄ hor. 10. p m. 1601. speach taken away suddenly.¹

RN Will Wakefild \serv mayd/ of Preston. 14 y march 12 ♀. h. 3. p m. 1624 /sickned a thursd last was sennet speach lost\

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 Goody Rider of newport 50 y decēb. 6 ☾ h. 1. 38 p m 1619

It tooke her 3 weekes sinc & hath bene speachles almost 3 weekes. eateth well. lame in her right syde |she took it w^th a cold tooke it w^th a cold|

the dead palsy

RN Agnys Mosse of Newp 24 y Octob 10. ☿ h. 11. 50 ant m 1627 troubled in her throate a yere. & now for this month can not speake but very softly y^t on cā scarce heare her.

RN Mres Vines took her sicknes at Piddington 30 of maye die ♂ h. betwixt 9. & 10 walking at night in her orcharde. & it tooke away her speache & brought a palsy in her side & armes. shee had no vse of her lims. 1598. die ♂ h. 9. 30 mi. p m maij 30. 1598.¹