Casebooks

RN Rich Napier my godson novēb 27 ☿ h. 1. 45. p m 16i6 left cheeke mutch swelled¹

I came wente to luton novēb 25 ☾ ☾ sep a ⚹ ☿ vac ap ⚹ ♀ p ⚹ ♂ p ☍ ♄. p ⚹ ♃

I returned novēb 27. ☾ sep a ⚹ ♃ ap □ ♂ & at my coming home I found my boy Rich cōplayning of his swelling

RN on weddensday 3 weekes before miklemas betwixt 8 & 9 in the forenoone sodenly taken in her mouth & face & in her lymms & so cōtinued a weeke & did neyther eate nor drinke

It will say I or no & call her broth^r Tom. Sept. 5 ☿ h. 8. 30 ant m. 1610.¹

RN Mres Alwey for her litle daughter \An 9 y/ y^t hath y^e scurfe on her hed Iune 13. ♀ h. 10 ant m 1617

RW Mary Bonner of Flitton y. 9. d. ☿ h: 0. Ianuar: 23. 1622. much swelled in her head & face: & her belly sometimes. scoureth much

RN Mres Marye Wentwort of Tyddington 9 y 16 of feb last h. 10 ant m but her the \young/ gentlewomā sent her water Aug 29. ♀ h. 9. 30 ant m 1623.

sinc Christmas last was troubled w^th a strong rheume y^t falleth into her eyes.

RN Thomas Smyth \of o^r towne of o^r towne {sic}/ natus the weddensday before alhallou day /octob 29. ☿\ h 9 p m 1627 |1617.| |always sickly kernels in his neck.|

RN Will: Gravestock of Newp 9 y Iune 26. h {sic} hor 11. ant m. 1624 /was p^rsent boath eys red watersh {sic} & gūmysh.\¹

RN Elisabeth Sandons the daught^r of Iohn Sandon ded & deted & moth^r. her vnkle came for her at Woulverton 9 yeres old amisse this fortnight they suppose it to have bene an ague. very sleepy & Drowsy. cōplayneth of her hed & belly. Novemb. 17. die ♀ h. 10. 15. mi. 1598.

RN Elisa Gilpine 9. y. a feare faced & very full faced child {reare}th vp mutch fleme at all tymes. sometimes hed bodye. sept. 8 die ♄ h. 12. 45. 1599. ready to stop her winde. kept her bed w^th it.

RN Bridget Parret of Stony stratford 9 y. Aug. 10 ♂ hor. 1. 15. p m. 1602. troubled w^th kernels vnder her cheeke backe & belly this twelmoneth.

RN Will: P

Lyddy Pryour of Dunstable. 9. y Decēb 22. ☿ h. 1. 30 p m 1619

this child is strangly handled ever sinc it took her it rūneth into every te & when it cōmeth into her lips & throat then cānot speake but after it is gone sk\r/yketh. at others tymes lyfteth vp her bodye

RN Will Hartwell & Alice Claues young Children of 9 & the boy 13 of Turvey troubled w^th the kings evill vnder there chin w^th kernels Aug. 28 h {sic} hor 11 ant m 1630

RN Bartholomew Tomson \Ill halfe a yere/ of newp 9. y. almost ten taken a weeke sinc {sic} \thursdy night/ taken a thursday night next a month was brought to me Iuly. 1. ☾ h. 4. 30 p m 1633.

had a bruise by thrusting him A|ag|aynst a Deske & bled at the nose mutch & sinc hath bene pyned & wasted in his flesh

looketh very pale /the child was brought to me in a Cradle. worst at night\

RN Mary Harvey of Olny a young widow 24|6| y may 12 h. 2. 15 p m 162i

for her legs swelled red eys dym & her litle child w^th hot red eyes

child sent