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 M^r Edmund Tyrrell of Tyrrell 29 y. Martij 14 ♀ {sic}. hor 5. 38 p m 1603.  contusione. feareth an impostume or rising in {sic} \on/ his breast. his horse fell vppō his bodye & he was ded a great while.

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 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

GJ Dorothy Piggott of Lenborough 22 y. almost a yeere maried Faynt and weake a payne in her backe and rising in her stomack

quærit vtꝝ sit gravida

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

GJ Elsabeth Radford of North Crowley 18 y. Octob. 18 ♂ ho. 8. 45 a m. 1603 payne in her head and stomacke shortwynded and faynt

nunquā habuit menstrua

greene sickenes /the caryers maid\

GJ Agnes Purryer of Cranfield 15 y. Octob. 17 ☾ ho. 3. 30 p. m. 1603

One walter Hooton m^r Androwes man of Lathbury beaten her that she is sore over her whole body. very faynt & ready many times to swound digestꝭ nothing. He put a hempen halter about her shoulder. /

GJ M^r Mathew Claver of Foskett. sent his water w^th a letter April. 6. ☿ ho. 10. 6 a m. 1603 Wherin he Complayneth of a trembling hastynes and fulnes of his head & sences his body full of wynde, a great noyse in his left eare many tymes troubled w^th a stitche in the small of his backe. The mouth of his stomacke doth most annoy his head for w^ch he hath taken Conserve of Anthos

RN Ralphe Harte of snā 2 y novemb. 19 h {sic} hor 11. 30 ant m 1603.

the child will not take any thing faynt & pyneth scoureth mutch sickned tuesday was 3 weekes

borne a moneth a fore miklemas last 2 yeres on a tuesday aft^r n a fore sun rising halfe an houres

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

RN Mres Throughton of Hanslop. i|o|f Totnell end 26 y. sent vnto me for her ague febr. 17 ♃ hor. 2. 10 p m 1603. et quærit vtrū sit gravida shee swounded about 5|6| of y^e clocke afternoone.

supposeth her selfe gone 2 weekes very faynt & weake & thincketh shee shall Dye. very godly & religious

RN Iohn Edwards of Olny vnmaried 30 Iuly 16 ♄ hor. 11. ant m 1603. for a bruise w^th a carte all in his hucklebone as if all were a sleepe./

GJ Alice Lord of Kempson 25 y. May 5 ♃ ho. 10 30 a m. 1603

Keepeth her bed, trembles very much, A great payne in her backe her right hand and right arme swelled. Cryes of her bones and every where about in great payne./

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

a noyse in her head. Deafenes