Casebooks

RN Margeret Brace of Carington about 30 yeres old. Octob 6 die ♀ h 1|9|. \9/. 38. sick for this 3 weekes. 1598. speachles & almost Dead. about a fortnight a goe. & did bleed wonderfully

this woman sente vnto me by the vicar of Crowly but I would give her nothing vntill I had spoken w^th some y^t knew the state of the woman the vicar sent Iohn ball. the woman mended p^rsently vppon it.

RN Ihone Blea the Daught^r of Thomas Blea the younger. nata. 1594 the 10 of Septemb. die ♂ at 4 a clock 15 m \in aurora./ post mediā noctē. quæ nata est et muta et surda.

Ihone Blea 1594 sept. 10. die martis at h. 4. m. 15 in auror.¹

Ihones Bleas nativit. die ♂. h. 4. 15.²

RN Ihone |Ione.| Blea nata 1594 Septemb. 10. die ♂ h. 4^ta m. 15. morning muta et surda. in Great Linford

RN Agnys Hop{illeg}|k|yns 33 of Sylson marid 6 child. Ian 16. ☾ hor 6 \30/ p m 1604. thursday night delivered of a child still borne. not knowing y^t shee was w^th child. speachles. voydeth mutch blood Downeward. swoundeth mutch.

RN {M}artha Nichols of Imlye 11. & halfe a yere Iulye 23. ☾ h. 2. 40 p m 16i0 /pater sine consensu\¹

RN Edmund Marchaunt of haversham 26 y Apr 30. ♂ h. 10. ant p m 1605

He lyeth speachles

I set this figure the next day in y^e morning he had bene y^t Day at footebale & some suppose y^t he tooke a great bruise.

RN Iohn Abbys of Bedfor{d} 26|7| y march 27. ☉ h 2. 20 p m 1608 ne{illeg}|w|ly mayed {sic} a yere

Iohn Abbys of Bedford pater  filio sine consensu speachles in a la {sic} litharge marh {sic} 27 ☉. h. 2. 15 p m 1608.

RN And Mary Robarse Robartꝭ at the same tyne {sic} her breath as sopped {sic} cānot speak an Impostume feared

RN Goody Keburne is speachles or cānot speake well & vtter her words plainly Sept 1 ☾ h. 6. 20 ant m 1628 /of Moulsoe\

RN Rob Myls of Hanslop a yere & halfe old neaver thrived cānotspeake fatherles & motherles Ap. 4 ☿ h. 3 50 p m 1632.

shortwyded child p^rsent

RN An Bunch of Risdone 5 y & a halfe borne the 11^th of sept ☾ about 3 in the after noone 1620. ever sinc she was borne lame in her lims cā speak but dead ¹

cānot speake.

cannot styrre. nor stand litle vse of y^e lims./.

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 Eliz. Browne of Paulusperry 69 {y} Aug 27. ♃ wa{s} taken in the fild {w^th} a dead palsye y^t took away her speach & lamed all on syde Aug 27 h 2. p m 162{9} she lay in the fild Dead 4 h{oures} no body suspe{c}ting any thing

RN Francis Smyth of Browton \Ap 15/ 9 y Iuly 14|5| 15. ☾ h. 11. ant m 1633 /could neaver speak hath a sore itch & bleatch all over\

RN a rising vp ready to choake her voydeth vp flegme & blood & swoundeth often sinc last night about nine & cānot speake feb 2. ☿ h. 9 p m 163i |body swelled| /speachles\ /An Impost feared\ |neav^r had child|

RN Zachary Ketch of lathbury 10 yeres old sickned the 10 of novemb. die ♀ about noune came for my counsell. 23 of Novemb. die ♃ h. 12. 30|5|. 1598. he can hardly speak or stande.

GJ Elsabeth Hayes of Turvy 43 y Octob. 18 ♂ ho. 9. 50 a m. 1603. |wind in the stomacke.| A dry Cough An Itche and as it were a dry scurfe. Hath a Childe of 2 yeere old sucking on her, the childe very poore & will take nothing but the brest can neither go nor speake: borne the saturday fortnight after midsomer 1601 betwene 8 & 9 at night quiet in the day but very vnquiett all night. very cold, swelled in the body of late. the mother nunquā habuit menstrua since she had this child.

RN At this tyme was taken in his bed strangly & cānot speak offreth to cast voydeth mutch waterish & reddish water. |did bleed at nose|

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 It tooke him first on sonday last w^th a trēbling all over. & tooke away the vse of his lyms & now his sences & all 25 ☉ h. 9. 30 ant m sodaynly taken 162i /will take nothing nor speak cānot keepe his water\