Casebooks

RN Mary Knight of Newport 12 yeres old at Easter Deafe this 8 yeres. for 4 yeres well. hearethe very hardly & at some times heareth better thē other her eares run & then shee heareth best shee came w^th her mother this 12 of Decēb^r die ♂ h. 10 12. 39. 1598. of a very pale Colour. a drye huske & a bad stomack breaketh & {illeg}|out &| looketh ill.

SRN Elizabeth wotton his wife. very weake for the most part of a month not able to helpe her selfe. cannot sleep at all. flesh bated & pined away

RN She feareth y^t her Daughtter in law is rūing into a consūption because her flesh wasteth yet hath a good & digesteth her meate well Iune 1 ♃ h. 5. 30 p m {1626}

RN Alce Bunts of hanslop. 23 yeres. a white thick muddish water. lyieth in her hed & b belly. her flesh is wasted away & {illeg}|b|urneth exceedingly. sick this moneth keepeth her bed. sore everywhere. March 12 the die ☾ h. 11 18. 1598.

RN Isbell Dorman of CastleThrop. 15 |50| yeres old. growing on her this 3 yeres cometh on her w^th a flushing heate y^t on drop followeth anoth^r {lyi}eth in her bones & hart & every place. Dareth not to eate her meate. Apr. 2. die ☾. h. 11. 10 m. ant m. 1599.

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.

GJ Agnes Purryer of Cranfield 15 y. Octob. 17 ☾ ho. 3. 30 p. m. 1603

One walter Hooton m^r Androwes man of Lathbury beaten her that she is sore over her whole body. very faynt & ready many times to swound digestꝭ nothing. He put a hempen halter about her shoulder. /

RN Mres Bridget Moore 18. y Apr. 20. ♀. h. 12. 11. 45. ant m 16i0. very cold every where & troubled w^th a rising & slepeth not.

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A womā 36 y for a swelling & broken rūning sore leg Ian 11 ♀. h. 11. 45. ant m 1611.

GJ Grace Meade of Bote Cla{idon} 40 y. Maij 31 ♂ ho 12. 50 p. m. 1608

Swelled in all her body very hott & thirsty

RN Charytie Goula{rd}|r|re {sic} \Goular/ of Keasoe \in Bedford sheere/ 33 y Aug 15 ☿. h. 2. 30 p m. 1632 |in Bedford sheere {sic}| /wasted in her flesh\ |A Consūpt & a dropsy feared|

RN Elis. Godfrey of Brokhole 24 y octob. 26 ♀|☾| h. 12 1618

for her morphue pimples quod max cōtingit mēsiū tempore.

RN Alce Thurstom of Offord in Huntington sheere had an ague w^ch vanished & hath still a swelling in all ts ebbing & flowing. |24 y |feb. 6 ☿ h. 10 30 ant m 1628.

TG Ann stapp of stonystreetford 16 y. Mart. 15. h. 9. Mat. 1634. hath beene sicke this 14night. on wensday a stitch in her right side began, & now is pained in all her body. Exceedy|i|ng hote. Keepeth her bed can hardly stirre.

RN Alce Howes his wife 44 y at the same tyme for a great swelling & itching heate & pimpels in her face. Iuly 8 ♃ hor 4. p m 1602.

RN An Fish^r of sherington 31 y. marid novemb 26. ♀ hor 2 p m 1602 for a strong itch over all her body.

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Dorothy Coo of Marson 30 y feb 9. ☿ h 11. ant m 1631. |had a sore throate & is broken out into sores|

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.

M^rs. Margaret Anderson. \of Tringe/ 16. y. Febr 21. ♂. h. 1. 10. p m. 1632

Shee tooke her Phisick w^ch wrought very well, but her Leggs doe nowe swell very much toward night, & pitt into the flesh w^th great paine, her thighes & Belly swell alsoe

Desires to knowe what should bee done:

GJ Elsabeth Chester. of Olney 17 y Decemb. 28 ♂ ho 2. p m. a breaking out in her leggꝭ and itching over her hole body