Casebooks

RN Iohn Smithe sent to me & his man came to Stanton where I then was for he was extreeme sick & very leekly to dye the 2{illeg}|8| of decemb: 1598 a {sic} betwixt 1 & 2

RN on of Northcrowly was before the commissary cited to purg him selfe on his oathe that he was not the father as he was chardged by the corrupt virgine but yet could not greatly denye but that he had bene wanton with her. Ian. 24 die ♃ hor. 3 p m. 1600. nos inquirimus ex nobis an sit verus pater et vitiavit nūqud {sic} magist^r.

hath some 9 or 12 days at the vtmost to be delivered.

RN Thomas Eden of Lechemsteede 30 of may die ☿ h. 8. 45. ant {m} 1599. 35 yeres. M^r Greeneways servant

RN The surgions in Oxford began to cut M^r Thomas Longfilds head & afterward seered his scull & afterward Did Drill his skull that is poure vppō his skull some corrosives that so they may {sic} g|m|ight get out a bladder w^c they thought caused his madnes. but he the {sic} begā to cut his head the 5 of Decēb. die ☿ h p m 3. 30. mi. 1599. but he dyed the weddensday moneth after or the tuesday

RN Ian. 30 die ☿ h 3. 15 pm Goody Robinson the old woman told me howe her husb: was vsed by M^r Vuedale as also howe Woodfild that kept her sheepe had lost on of her sheepe & would nowe keepe them no longer. 1600

RN Thomas Coo servant to M^r Ardes of lathbury 35 yeres vnmaried sick this fortnight 11 of Decēb. die ☾. h. 3. 30 mi. most an end keepeth his bed. 1598

RN Thomas Eling of Newport for his wife Elisabeth for Eling a baker. 29. y. 5 weeks sicke had no child not this 3 yeres. keepeth her bed. Septemb. 7 die ♀ h. 8. 12. mi. ant m. 1599.

RN Ihone Persivall of Lo{illeg} 35 yeres about 20 weekes amisse. short winded. hot in her stomack shee hath broken out in her face w^th a flushing heate. payne in her hed her neighbours tell her y^t shee may be breeding of child.. 16 of novemb. die ♃. h. 1.. 1598. broke out in her nose &|f|ace & chin w^th pimpels.