Casebooks

RN An Colemā of litle Brickhill 44 y march 15. ☾ h. 2. 20 p m 1619. |Is in strang fits. strangly handled w^th quaking fits. witchery suspected|

RN An Colemā of litle Brickhill 44 y Ian 1{illeg}|8| ☾ h. 10 12. 1619 /strangly handled w^th fits y^e mother suspecteth witchery\

RN The lady \An/ Butler for her m^r Oliver Butler 9 y next march bone {sic} 28 or 29 about 12 & on in the night. of Harolde sent to me for this child Ian 3 h {sic} hor 11. 45 ant m 1623 {sic}. extree {sic} weake & feeble & cā take no physick taken w^th strang fits plucking his \right/ syde & rūneth to his back being holden harde & an extree {sic} cough almost halfe a yere. & is pyned & cā not stand nor goe Ill tong suspected

RN Agnys Rawlins of Stoake Hamon. 30 y Ap 2 ☿ h. 11. 15 ant m. 1617. doubteth of ill words trēbleth /is greevously tormented stomack good\

RN The eldest Will: Lewys of Henly vppon Tems 15 y Ian 25 ☿ h. 1. 40 p m 1626 h. 2. p {sic}

Rob. Lewys 11 y {lat}. 8 weeks

Sam. Lewys {illeg}|t|his day a weeke.

all in leake maner w^th st{ran}ge convulsions months & crye hereof.

RN M^r Worcesters child of Olny a quarter of a yere old taken strangly w^th convulsions Aug. 1. ☿ h. 11 p m 1627¹

RN feb. 4 his wife his boy & his child strangly taken w^th vomyting feb. 4. h. 3. p m 1633. /the gearle dyed about y^t tyme\

RN Rich Dudley of Shenly. 48 y may 13. ☾ h. 5. 25 ant m 1611. /strangly taken by fits at hart lik as on pinched & gryped. fery stroken\

RN This strang fit of y^e ague tooke Sept 22 ☿ h. 6. 40 p m 1630 |it tooke her yest in great extremity feb malig|

RN Alce Rhodes of Bledloe beyond Alesbury 5 miles May 2. ☉ h. 1. 30 p m 1619 strangly handled ague water lame & thick.

RN Rich. Crowe of sandy 40 y Ap 4. ☾ h. 2. 50 p m 163i

Rich Crowe of sandy 4{illeg}|0| y {sic} |40 y| /cānot sleepe\ n {sic} a batch: Ap. 4 ☾ h. 2. 45. p m 1631

RN S^r Th. Tyringhā sent t{o} me to know what I think of his Daughte{rs} strang fits of skriking n{ovē b} 6 ☉ h. 3. p m 163{1} /|nō| sine cōsensu.\

RN Robart Hodges of Greenefild 50 a marid man nev^r had child. hath purchased a ground of 2 Hundred pound & the next yere following was troubled w^th som ill thing or two as big as mice w^thin his shoulders w^ch when he bruised he was wonderfully prucked {sic}

RN Margaret Smyth. of Broughton 43 y Aug. 10. ♀. h. 9 ant m. 1627 |hath an ague every day sinc christmas|

strangly taken w^th a rising at her hart likely to swound sa a knife & feareth to see a knife & trēbleth at it.

RN Mary pen of Stony stratford 29 yeres taken speachles & shaking & throtte{illeg}|ll| & rore & burne. thus taken the 22^th day of August. about 10 a clock at night die ☿ ♄ {sic}. 10. at night 1599. maritꝯ  vxore

RN Mary Bawsell of Stoake goldin 2 y & a halfe pleth & well coloured may. 3 ♃ h. 1 p m 1632

Convulsions quivering & quaking & lay as on dead halfe an houre/. was p^rsent susp witch. apt to sleepe /skreameth\

RN troubled w^th strang convulsions the wench the morow on \St/ Stephens Daye ☾ sep a ⚹ ♄ ap ☌ ♀. p △ ♂ h. 8 ant m 162{6}|5| & swounded at that tyme & hath bene troubled w^th convulsiōs ever sinc

Marg Howlet taken w^th strang fits of convulsions & wythering of her face & neck S^t {sic} Decēb. 26 ☾ h. 8 ant m 1625

RN Elisabeth Travell of Hanslop. 96. yeres old. sick this fortnight. sore canot lye hot & burning w^th a verye hie colour feareth least shee be encumbred w^th a bad tounge septemb. 14. die ♀ h. 4. p m 1599.

RN S{a} {sic}

ma\r/y Olive of Askot 30 y Iuly 30 ♀ h. 10. 45 ant m 1619 |wasteth mutch troubled w^th wynd|

TG The lady RN \Douglas/ TG Savage of carringthon 36. Novemb. 30 ♀ h. 9. 30 Mat. 1632 troubled with winde colicke day & night, cannot shlep