Casebooks

RN Mres Holland. Lond: 23 y at Halloutyde last. Weddensday maij 6. ♂ h. 10. ant m 1606 |taken first on weddensd east^r weeke \easter {sic}/ at night| /in her bed. at 12. p m a thing like a dog cāme vppō her made her fome & skrike\ |shee sayd she sawe some ill thing in her bed comīg to her like a cat or a dog as shee lay w^th her husb. y^t strooke her w^th a dead palsye./|

RN Mres Osburne \of Chicksand/ of 56 y Iune 14 ♂ {sic} h. 5. 30 p m 16i5 /a lame arme & a palsye very fearfull\

RN Rich Brigs of Dunstable 61. Aug 6. ♀ h. 3. 20 p m 1619.

a lamenes & nūnes of his lyms speach fayleth many tymes & cānot speake & is very testy.¹

RN Goody Rider of newport 50 y decēb. 6 ☾ h. 1. 38 p m 1619

It tooke her 3 weekes sinc & hath bene speachles almost 3 weekes. eateth well. lame in her right syde |she took it w^th a cold tooke it w^th a cold|

the dead palsy

RN Thomas Fisher of Caucot 10 y. octob 14 h {sic} hor 2 p m 1626

ey sight lost a palsy of arme & syde¹

RN M^r Robert Ansloe 66 y feb 26 ☾ h. 4 30 p. m 1627 on thursday last he swonded ever sinc his right syde is dead & speaketh very badly¹

RN Mary Vosterly of old Stratford 40 y febr 27 ♂ h. 9. 39. ant m 1627 |arme neck & Left arme no vse.|¹

RN a womā of Stonystratford for an Impost in her eare & crāpe in her eye & syde of her fa{ce} & dead palsye in her cheeke octob 30 ♂ h. 12. 20 ant m 1627

RN Goody Hodson of Olny 62 y may 26 ☿. h. 4 20 p m 1630. crāps stitches wynd in her ioynts

RN Goody Lane of this towne 45 y Decēb 18 \18/ ♂ h . 10 ant m 1632. a palsye back syde & hart

RN Elis: nyster of {sic} 31 y of Horneton /Hornton\ Iune 20 ♃ h 5. p m 1633

her sicknes began a Wedd was a monthe about 4 in the morning may. 22 but sent to me Iune 20 ♃ h. 5 15 p m 1633 swounded then may 22

Iune 20 ♃ h. 5. 29 p m 1633 Dead palsy lame sorely tormented by fits

M^r. Banberry of Smithwick in Staffordshire. 64. y. Mpril {sic}. 2. ☿ h. 6. p m. 1634

Taken w^th the Dead Palsye a month or 3 weeks since, hath lost the vse of one Side. Desires to knowe whether there bee Hope of his Recouery.

RN Mres Vines took her sicknes at Piddington 30 of maye die ♂ h. betwixt 9. & 10 walking at night in her orcharde. & it tooke away her speache & brought a palsy in her side & armes. shee had no vse of her lims. 1598. die ♂ h. 9. 30 mi. p m maij 30. 1598.¹

RN Amy fuller 30. her \right/ shoulder right leg. & her hand hath as it were a crampe & of late broken out. swelled & blistered & very hot & a thin face but well coloored her toes will not styrre Apr. 23. die ☾ h. 2. 50. m p m. 1599. whitsontide wilbe a twelmoneth. of Cranfild.

RN S^r Rog. Poolyston came to cōfer w^th me touching his Palsy & convulsions & vertigo. having a lamenes in his left syde & weaknes in his legs Octob. 12. ☾ h. 2. 30. p m. 1618.

RN Henry Cuddington 12 y Iuly paralitycall |vtrū wheath^r {sic}| It was on y^e left syde & now in y^e right syde weake & cā scace {sic} speake. An foster Rookes wife of Calv^rton a humour rūning pulling frō the feete vp to her head a great longe tyme./. An {sic}

RN 1 first in his neck 2 on his syde tormented him & drew his mouth asyde & tooke away his sences & memory l|&| did shake h{im} novēb. 10 ♄ hor 3 p m 162i¹

RN Mres Hester Conquest. \of Howton Conquest./ 21 y may 25 h {sic} hor 1. p m 1622. \a convulsive palsy at y^e right syde cānot speake but laugh or weeke {sic}/

Mres Hester Conquest may 2{illeg}|5|. h {sic} hor 1. 20 p m 1622¹

RN Thomas Barnesey of P|S|teppo{illeg}|n|. 72 y Ian 15 h {sic} hor. 3. p m 1625.

had the palsye but not now & hath lost the vse of boath armes of a red & highe cōplexion

would knowe wheath^r good to let blood 4 or 5 ounces hath a short ptysicke.

Thomas Barnesye of Steaphington 72 y Ian. 15 h {sic} hor 3. 15 p m 1625 |a very leane mā|

wheath^r good to let blood hath no vse of his arme a palsy 6 weekes

RN Mary Smyth of Stawton 20 myles 30 y Ap 27. ♂ h. 10. 15 ant m 1619 her head shaketh a fortnight or 3 \shaking/ palsy. mother backe thighꝭ as if they should be torne but her head exceding cold.

head cold

vryne very good. a very good stomacke yet very faynt. mutch troubled w^th wynd 2 y. sinc had a boy. hath thought her selfe twice to be w^th child w^thin this twelfemonthe. nescit an sit gravida