Casebooks

RN Marg. Dixye \Maxye/ tooke away & kii|c|kd|e|d of the sticks of frō the firre {sic} march 12 ♀ h. 10. 45. ant m. 1624 /9 weekes sinc yest tormented\¹

old goody Dixye susp. this womā brought a few sticks & put it on the fire & burned

RN Iohn Bichinoe otherwise Pinner 6 70 y of Walton. Decēb. 17 ♄ hor. 11 ant m 1608. /wynd cholick. womes {sic} in the bel{ly}\¹

RN Goody King of Creaton 48 y May 21. ☿ h. 9. 30 \50/ ant m1628

cōpl of her hips & thighes & belly ever sinc harvest last |her water is red|

RN Susan Bechā of Cosgrave 11. y. the thursday after S^t Peter but came to me Iuly 25. ♃ h. 6 p m. 1622 pyned & cōsumed hed neck & belly. mutch pyned & wasted¹

RN Thomas Nichols \of litle Linford/ taken very strangly in his belly novēb 25. ☉ h. 3. p m 1632 |13 y|

RN A womā of fanystratford strangly handled gyped {sic} belly casteth alwys eateth litle kind to Iohn Rutland Mach {sic} 28 ☾ h. 10 30 ant m 1608

RN margery Iames of Greete by Winscombe in Glocester sheere 50 myles henc almost 50 y Iuly 21 h {sic} {illeg}|h|or. {8} {sic} h {sic} 7. 30 ant m 1632 |ma\r/yed|

She is hanted as she thinketh w^th an ill spirite & feeleth some living thing roll vp & downe in her & it will pluck her & gather all togeather./ then downe in the bottome of her belly & then rū vp to her hart & syde ill sinc whitsontyde

M^r freemā her m^r cured her 15 y since.

was very sickly always.

RN Rich Carter of Althrop \S^r/ |Iohns Spence\r/s man.| 32 y. Iune 3. ♀ hor. 1. 30 p m. 1603.¹²

RN Mres Eliz. Wilmore of Stachden 40 y febr. 24. ☾ h. 9 ant m 1617 /backe syde belly & thighes\

RN M^r fosters letter read by me sept 30 ♃ h. 5. 39 p m 1619 /a wyndy venemous vapour rūing into his belly w^th a swelling\ vtr venef sit passus.

RN katherin prentice of Houghton va. 43 y Iune 6 ☿ h. 8. ant m. 1632 |back belly & sydes|¹

water good

was p^rsent

RN Iudith Hix of Woodstocke ma\r/yed 31 y the fryday before the lady Day Ap 4 ♃ h. 9. 20 \10/ ant m 1633 /a trēbling in her belly\ /an extreme griping in her belly\

RN Doctor Swaddon for his wife of great Horwood 50 y novēb 1. ♄ hor 12 15. p m 1606

sent her wat^r a|&| a lett^r strangly visited w^th ach sometymes in her left shoulder sometymes in her backe & tormēted in belly & stomack his his {sic} request is y^t I would come to him

RW Mary Bonner of Flitton y. 9. d. ☿ h: 0. Ianuar: 23. 1622. much swelled in her head & face: & her belly sometimes. scoureth much

RN Ione Longe of Astwood 20. y. taken yesterday in her bodye after a strange maner. y^t shee cannot make water greeepeth {sic} her bellye & cryeth w^th it & cannot sleepe. Septemb. 5. die ☿ h. 6. 45. ant m. 1599. /her fathers servant gote her w^th Child but her fath^r would not let him marry her./\

RN on fryday night about 12 of the clock was taken very strangly backe belly & every where as it were w^th huc\coc/kes fryday & satterday night lay as on y^t should dete

feb. 4. ♀ h. 12. at night

RN Agnes Tappe 4 y old of Astwood feb. 16. die ♄ h. 1. p m 1600. cryeth of her belly pynd & consumed. Elisabeth Burdge suspected¹

GJ Henry Dwinne of Selso 40 y feb 24 ☾ ho 11. a m 1606 A great pulling in his belly. pisses bloud. RN |metuit veneficiū. et inimicit{iā}| GJ

RN Elis. Boner of Risely 30 y Ap. 9 ☾. h. 11. 30 \15/ ant m 1621.

It belly hard swelled & feeleth on her brest as a bladder w^th beans ratling 7 weekes |not sick but sore in her bodye|

RN She was taken strangly & sodenly but more yesterday then before Iuly 24. ☿ h 4|5| \5/ p m 1622. at sermō tȳe w^th strāg convulsions taking away her speach. & vse of her armes & her belly Did burne & trēble & was & is ever mightely tormōted w^th sore tēptatiōs when she is most willing to serve god¹