Casebooks

RN Goody Thornes child of Sherington 10 y haunted as it would seeme w^th some ill thing a longe tyme & will goe it knoweth not wheath^r. & lye out of dores./ can fynd no helpe./

RN Goodmā Campion Sept 12. ☿. h. 4. 20 p m 1632. /19 weekes ☉ at night\

RN Goodmā Hellyers child 8 y novēb 1. h {sic} hor 11. 30 ant m 1617

RN Goody Hopkins child sent to know wheath^r bewitched Ian 2|3|1. h {sic} hor 11. 20 ant m 1624 /the child p^rsent\

RN Belys wife for her child of 8 y. taken in the head. feareth lest bespok by Rid{es} wife because ever sinc{illeg} there falling out hath bene so evill handled a very good wat^r. Sept 18 die ♂ h. 7. 30. ant m. 1599

RN M^r Poulton |of london serv to old M^r Stas of london| sent to me in the behalfe of some y^t by witchery had lost there sight Aug 30. ☿. h. 0 12. 1609¹

RN a litle child of 13 wekes old taken yesterday & strangly. Iune 20 h {sic} hor 5. 4|5|0 p m 1612. like on y^t had y^e palsye

RN goodmā Leach of Woulverton for his litle Infant decēb 9 ♃ h. 3 38 p {sic} p m. 16i9

RN Aug. 23. ♃ h 7

Aug. 23. ♃ h 7 p m 1627. |make y^r oynt adv^rsus veneficiū|

RN Williā Conye 30 y sept 4. ☿ h. 3. p m 1633

Last sonday his child is Dead bet|w|itched & could not rest: all the night long & dyed on monday night

Will: Cony of newp. 33 y. sept: 4 ☿ h 3. p m 1633.

RN A womā of Stratford broght a litle child a v {sic} xj weeks old would sucke other bodyes teates but not hers very vnquiet & crying. hath a great cold Aug 11. ☉ h. 1. \25/ p m. 1622¹

RN a womā of Newp brought a child of 4 weekes old Decēb 29 ♀ h. 12. 1626. sup on goody Bechā Did harme it

the child wasteth & cōsumeth & so did another of her child y^t dyed before

RN Iohn Malins a yere & a quarter lacking a fortnight as it were pined in all her lims & bodye hed a poer bare creature. cannot sleepe not at any time in a moneth or fortnight but crye and Drinke mater adduxit se{cū} filiolā veret^r ne sit maleficio v^l veneficio afflictus. Decēb. 7. die ♃ hor. 3. 30. mi. 1598 very short winded.

RN a litle child halfe yere old swoundeth & fometh as one having the falling sicknes. vexed w^th many convulsive fits Decēb 30 ♂ h. 11 ant m. 1623.

goody Huccot next neighbour suspected

RN M^r Snite of Warborough mynister a batch. placed fellow of Corpꝯ Chri College in Oxford & m chosen by the house to be son \Curate/ in y^t place 20^l a yere wrote most kindly in \the behalfe/ of Iohn Bislee his neighbour for his 3 child but specially for his sone Iames 2. y. Sept 12. h {sic} hor 4. 30 p m 1629

his child Iames is 2. y. sucketh still & will take a litle drink.

Iames 2. y.

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 Annys Walker of Patshill 25 y may. 20|i| ♀ h. 1. \12. 50/ p m. 1624¹

RN An Silvester of Hunsdon in Hartford sheere 42 y Iune 8 h {sic} hor 6 ant m 1633

strangly handled in her feete w^th pulling & gnawing her feete w^th extremity of payns & her hands pill all over & the tops wore away w^th the payne & did extremely vomyte at the first for 4 days 16 weekes. & had 2 child w^ch vomyted sorely & on child dyed & she cānot sit vp nor goe but as she she {sic} is caryed nor cānot abyde any to touch her hands & feete & are extreme hot

vryne very good Iune 8. h {sic}. hor 6 ant m 1633. /h. 7. 30 ant m 1633\

Iune 8 h {sic} hor 6. ant m 1633.