Casebooks

RN Iohn Windmill of Yardly Gubbin a twelmoneth old & as mutch as candelmas the sunday after candlemas. came & brought her Child y^t was payned in the body & had divers fi strange fits. but before it tooke it had a fit of an ague before it. not v this beating & panting began on friday night w^th a quivering & shakings of the belly & armes Apr. 10. die ♂ h. 7. ant m. 1599 goeth had|r|d to grounde cryeth

RN Agnes Vnderwood payned w^th a heaving in her body can scarce take her winde hath an ache in her hips & legs. & loynes. 60 yrs old. a kinde of yellowish water. Apr. 23 die ☾ h. 3. 30. mi p m. 1599

RN Agnes Harwood of Cosgrave 50 yeres payned in her legs & body. hoven in the neither side of her belly as it were an impostume very sicke w^thall & vomiteth vp every daye what serve {sic} shee taketh. sent to me this first of may. 8|h|or 8. 30|5|. p|a|nt m. 1599.

RN Old Goody Barnwell hoven in body & hath a sincking in her feete & her lims stiffe & have no feeling. very Costive. may. the 18 16 die ☿. h. 11. 30. ant m. 1599.

RN Aug. 18 die ♄ Iays Iansone of Cosgrave 50 y. Aug. 19. die ☉ h. 4. 45. an p m. 1599 a payne in her harte & body & troubled w^th winde / lyeth in her syde.

RN Alce forde of betchampton 60 y. payned in her body went not to stoole twice this 2 monets taketh no thing. but drinke Ian 30 die ☿ h. 12.

she is swelled in her bodye. & very hot. wamblie in her bodye.

RN Alce Ashby Goodman of Woufton of {the} Greene about a 30 y. maried this 12 yeres. her iongest almost 3 y old. sca{illeg} feb. 19 die ♂ ♄ {sic}. 2. p m. 1600. a trembling & quaking & all about her body cōsumeth & pineth faynt & feeble

RN for a poer womā of Sherington y^t hath bene long sick & swollen in her body face legs cānot goe August 30 ♂ hor 10. 45. ant m 1603

GJ Ellen Weed of Brafield on the greene 40 y. maried Sept. 2j ☿ ho. 1. 45 p m Hath bene ill these ij yeers sicke in her stomacke and paynfull in her body her body heaves sometyms as if she were w^th Child and falles agayne

GJ Ellen Fisher of Baddlesdon 32 y. Ianuar. 10 ♃ ho. 2. p. m. 1605. RN |do fear the dropsye./| Swelled in her body face RN armes & legs. blys {sic}

RN Goody Hobs of Gothurst 60|3| y. Decēb 27. ♃ hor. 10 20 ant m 1604.

every where swelled in her lyms armes. legs bodye very shortwyded.

RN Ione Shortread of Newp 37 y Ap. 27. h {sic} hor. 9 30 ant m 16i6. |a burning in her hands & body all over neck & legs|

RN Isb. Browne of yadly {sic} Hastyn 26 y May 9 ♃ h. 12. 38 p m 16i6 hath layen in childb{y}|e|d ever sinc 4 May even swelled every where face hands armes legs & body

RN Shonet Wardley of Odyll. 50 y march. 19 ♂ h 2 p m 1622. feeleth a prickling in sundry tꝭ of her body suddenly & by fits every day. & is mutch payned in her brow mouth & a noyce in her eares/. they sper not in there body. catle.

RN Mres Pescot sent a letter to me touching certen ptyes susp to doe her hane {sic} May 17 ☾ h. 1. 30 p m. 1624

Mres Prescot was w^th goody M^res Kendall who did excuse her selfe &|b|efore she dyed & did put it on her daughter in law that mayed {sic} her sonne called Ellenor Cooke now wife of francis Typsley confessed y^t her daughter sent for a mā to cure her mischiefe but they did not fourme it. still is tormented almost in all tꝭ of her bodye yet not sicke so y^t she is afrayd y^t all her adversayes {sic} are not rooted out. this \last/ womā hath a Daughter y^t was w^th the old womā before she dyed called Anne Typsley. always tormented at hart feareth a cōsūption & craveth my consayle & helpe vnder god.

RN An Rider of Newp. 17. y octob 27 h {sic}. hor 8 45 ant m 1632

neav^r had thē head stomackgrene sickes sinc last Easter

tab ♁ 4^d was p^rsent \body hoaven./

Elisabeth Doggett of Westninge. 32. y. March. 1. ♀. h. 12. 20. p m. 1633

a swīming in her head w^th a great Cough for a yeare, much wasted in her Bodye Cannot sleepe nor Eate.

RN Isbell Linwell servant to Thomas Buncher of Paulus Perrye 30 yeres old nor fath^r nor moth^r a hie colourd wate woman & sweateth hart swollen in the body & legs. & chest faynte y^t shee can do no worke hed & hart beateth. 27 of March die ♂ h. 1. 30 p m. 1599. short winded hath bene amisse this 3 weekꝭ {wak}heth

RN Mary Nuby 28 of Grafton Lodge. for a rising at her stomack. her legs. Double vnd^r her faynt & feeble & pineth in her body & yet can earte {sic} had not her termes never sinc her sicknes almost for a yere. Ap. 25 die ☿ h 5. 30. p m. 1599 |cannot sleepe troubled w^th a great cough at night.|

RW Clement Rulie d. ♀. h: 9. 25. p: mer: Feb: 1. 1622. taken suddenly w^th a riseing in \her/ stomacke w^ch is readie to stop her winde: her hands cold; highe coloured in her face & swetteth: hath a heate in her bodie