Casebooks

RN Iustine Danyell of Bletchly 30 y brought a bed on Satt last about day break & had good deliv. & is growen weake & hath very mā they sought to stay it & she grew the worse for it the reds to many

RN Mres Baphy Im {sic} kee at Stony stratford 36 y Sept 10. ☾ h. 10 30 ant m 1632.

dyed in Childbed h|e|xtremely weakned w^th the abudanc {sic} of her floures

RN Agnys Bampton of Bletchley 40 y. August. 7. h. 8. 15 ant m. 1613. |talketh & eateth well hath no labour but hath no strength|

RN Goody Rufhead /27 y\ hath bene in sore travell yesterday & now the throws Leaves her octob 16 ♂ h. 5. p m 1627 extreme weake.

RN brought: a bed on sonday last: Ian 4 h. 11 ant m 162{9}¹

RN Mres \Mary/ Shurly sent her letter to me touching her sicknes & swounding sept 9. ♃ h. 7 ant m 1630 |of Brayles|

RN An knight of Olny 19 y Ap 10 die ♃ h. 11 ant m. 1600 a great heat & cold. chest stuffed hart hot ready to swound swelled & great bellyed hath not had her sicknes this 12 moneth. yet about a 3 weeks sinc shee had them but very fewe./.

RN Katheron Ardes of 2i of Sherington hath to mutch store of her naturall Diseases & make her very fainte & feeble come in cl{om}tons Ap. 26 die {illeg} ♃ {sic} h. 12. 25. m.

RN Iane Hooton of Stockgolding 20 y {s} {sic} martij 7 ☾ hor 12. 15 p m 1602|3|. never had sicknes a swymming in her hed

RN Elis Symons of Stonystratford. 40 y A {sic} May 1. ☿ h. 2. 45 p m 1622

troubled w^th the reds mightely 3 quaters {sic} of a yere & dayly meade her weake & craved a remedy being p^rsent

RN The Lady Nydleton {sic} sickly. subiect to cholick & Iandis & hath not her sicknes kindly a weake back octob 8 ☿ h. 12 1628.

RN Elisabeth Purden of puddington 36 y. sicke hath had her sicknes to mitch {sic}. faynt & feeble. y^t w^ch cōmeth frō her very blacke flowers wat^r to muth {sic} thin coloured. paynd head & sydes & hath menses immodices/

RN Mary wren of Hanslop payned in her h belly & backe. feareth lest shee be w^th Childe. hath not had her termes not sinc the last Childe very faynte & feeble. maij 2. die {illeg}|☿| h. 2. 45. mi. p m. 1599.

RN Elisabeth Hockni Toppe of Hanslop 30 y. sick ever sinc Ash wenday {sic} at hart a greeping every where hed. & stomack. payned every where doubteth wheath^r shee be w^th Child or no hath not her courses /after her sleepe in a faynt {snort}\

RN Goody Ashburnoure very sorely pained in her head light headed & swelled in her face very red. can take no sleepe nor rest. sent to me. may 4. die ♀. h. 5. 48. mi ant m 1599 hath not had her couses {sic} this two yeres. bledeth nowe & then at the nose.

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.|

SRN Sister Ersfeild for my sister mytton 30. y. Novemb 24. ♂ h. 3. 30. p. m. 1635

a great weaknes in her back this 3. y. next Aug. much troubled with y^e whites & reds.

hath miscarried. hath those continually which weaken

RN Thomas White of Milten 56. may 22 die ♃ h. 11 30 ant m 1600 |a payne in his shoulders| payned in his head back & chest stuffed. faynt & feeble water good but yellowish. sande in his backe. a drye cough.

Susāna White of Milten ^Mres Androwes servant 18 a red coloured wenche legs sweld. hath the whites but very few of the reds. head & harte a swimminge.

RN my lady came \Maunsell/ showed me her wat^r Ian 24 ♀ h 10. 30 ant m. 1606. who was at my lady Chaynes howse at Drayton 35 y. a long visage leane & yellowish full of melanch. long sick & casteth every foote mutch reds. &|w|^ch trouble her mutch. & cōtinew long also whitꝭ but the {sic} weaken not yet have cōtinewed longe w^ch come 3 days before the red. casteth mutch faynt & feeble mutch wynd costive /Lady Maunsell. 35 y.\

RN M^r {sic} Charels Tutcher Charles at Stonystratford at the swan of 2 neckes. 45. sick this fortnight. sonewhat {sic} Costive shee doth bleede & is very mutch stuffed in her chest can scarce tak her winde. ready to sound a grosse & fat woman. sent a poer woman. Ian. 3. die ☿. h. 12. 9. mi. 1599. \at 1. p m /|twice & thrice a day bleedeth at y^e nose. half a pint at a time \every oth^r daye/|

Charels Touchers wife hath not had her termes this 6 yeres her stomack hoven & her hed ill & backe her wombe & chest stuffed short winded. hart ill water good. yellowe but thin. taken a greefe for payment of monyes for her husb. brother for s{ur}tiship. 200^li