Casebooks

RN Will: Seere of haversham. 53 yeres old sitteth vp by the fier, very stiffe & hardly to {ground} onc in 24 houres complayneth of his body & lims & legs most in on of his sides all over his left syde ever sinc March last: first amisse not able to goe over the Dore threshall. sinc Alhalloutide. sent his wife to me Decēb. 21. die ♃. h. 12. 45. 1598. on of his legs the left wonderfully swelled. a very diseased body & hath had a greate cough.¹

RN Rich: Spencer of Stonystratford 18. y. Aug. 23. ♂. h. 12. 1625 a drye scurfe in his arms legs body backe.

RN Henry Lane of Lowten 7 y. Octob. 10 ♄ hor 12. 20 ant. p m. 160i troubled w^th red drye scurfe in his armes & legs.

taken as is supposed w^th eating of a spyder cut into two peeces on halfe on his butter hath broke out anon after as it were in a lepry scurfe hath continued this two yeres be some speckes on his bodye.

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 M^r Hipwels Kinswomā newly come to him 24. May. 23|2| die ♃ h. 12. 30 ant m {sic}. 1600

for a swelling in her body armes legs. burning hot.

RN Katheron Ocklie of Turvie 60 y. payned in her legs & bodye w^ch are mightely swollen & a payne in her cheste w^th a cold. Doth spit blood also feb. 2 die ♄. h. 12. Thomas Burges \of Astwood/ 50 yeres for a great cough & payne in the chest very short winded. 1600¹

the womans wat^r is very red & thick Mary Burges troubled about the hart w^th a coughinge her wat^r hath black melancholy humour. her husb & ss troubled w^th a cough.

RN Thomas Whooton of haversham about 22. vnmaried. sick this yere. quærit remediū. novemb 6. die ☾. h. 12. 30. he hath had a swelling in his right side broken out in his wrestꝭ & body filthy water. heavy vncōfortable his hed gyddy & light his sight bad

RN Frauncis Woodmacy of Olny 38 Ian. 6 die ♂ hor. 12. 26. p m. 1600 {sic} burnt p. legs & body et swelled

RN Richard Kinge of Nash. 24 yeres hath had a swelling in his body belly & mēbers & face for this 3 yeres & goeth away agayne. Octob. 3 die ☿ h. 12. 45. {illeg} 1599. hath bene at Cublington son of Thorton’. in his throate & k {sic} & knees.