Casebooks

RN Thomas Hall \56 y./ was taken in his speach & right syde 2 Martij ♂ h. 7. 3|2|0 ant m 1619 sodenly going about his worke

RN Iane Curtis \of Chelson & Caucot/ is 7 y old vppō S^t Buttolphes eve a litle before sone setting will quake & trēble & cā speak I & no but litle els they feare y^t she hath an Impediment \in her/ mouth. \father/ came to me for her w^th this note may 3. ☾ h. 12. 30 a|p| m 1624

RN Sara Cox of Northhāpton. 20 y Aug. 19|8| ☉ \h {sic}/ h. 10 30 {sic} \11. 30/. p m 1610 sodenly stroken & fell in a swound. & was taken in her right syde, nor could speak ever after it. {wri}th her mouth. was very mery before {illeg}|th|is took her.

RN Rob Burges {illeg}|3|6 y I|f|eb 16 ♀ h. 12 50 p m 1627.

head ioynts & back & now speachles sinc sonday about sonset. |he sent feb 16 ♀. h. 1. p m 1627|¹

RN Phyllis Pedder of Potters Perry of a 11 yeres old. sick on mūday first. then teeethe {sic} hed hart. cannot speak. came to speachles ever sinc noone. her broth^r came for her. Martij 2i. die ☿. h. 2. 30. p m. 1599.

RN Agnes Kinge servā to M^res Burchmore of tottle end 22 y payned hart stomack & head. sodenly ready taken at night for an hour lost her speake munday last about 12 a clock at night came in her owne son Ian 14 die ☾ h. 1. 30 p m. 1600.

RN Goody Mathew of Walton. 40 y Ap 22. ♂ h. 11. 25. ant m 1606|4| {sic} hed & harte /

her speach fayleth her.

RN Iane Curtes \of Stanwick/ came to my house Iune 16 h {sic} hor 3. 30 p m 162i

can heare but cānot speake. eyes sore.

RN {I}ohn Evans of the Mynrys in London Iue {sic} 19 ♃ h. 6 p m. 1628

writeth for a gent mā

first vnfoldeth his owne greefe how he is wrōged & cosened of all y^t he hath & therby he his wife & childrē broght to great want & misery craveth my Counsell & instruction

Also writeth in the behalfe of a gentlemā y^t having taken an extreme cold & p^rsently an exceeding greefe for the Death of his wife & {th}erby cast Downe into sicknes & mutch melancholy of a sanguyne cōplexion his sicknes & melancholy is mutch abated & now his voice is almost Lost y^t he s cānot {sic} \on cānot/ spea heare on \him/ that speaketh {sic} \to speake/ a yard of

cōplayneth of something about the pit of his throate his voice is only low & weake but not troubled w^th any fault in noncing but cleere inough every where no physick but cōplayneth of the coldnes of his stomack & head & sone {sic} stoppage about the begying of his nose cold flegme & cold head & defect in hearing hath 2 great manyscripts of physick y^t he is Desyrous I should vse craveth vnder god my consayle for the frind his gentleman

RN Lawrenc Clarke of Astwood 20 y may 22 ☾ 8. 30 ant m 1626.

It lyeth in his head & speaketh litle.

RN Agnys Mosse of Newp 24 y Octob 10. ☿ h. 11. 50 ant m 1627 troubled in her throate a yere. & now for this month can not speake but very softly y^t on cā scarce heare her.

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Lyddy Pryour of Dunstable. 9. y Decēb 22. ☿ h. 1. 30 p m 1619

this child is strangly handled ever sinc it took her it rūneth into every te & when it cōmeth into her lips & throat then cānot speake but after it is gone sk\r/yketh. at others tymes lyfteth vp her bodye

RN Clare

Dorothy Drape of newp 4 y Ap 2 19. ♀ h. 2. 15 p m 1622. hath bene c{or}st 2|4| days vntill this daye cā eate litle. grateth her teeth. head cānot speake.

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

RN Mres white of London 30. y. ♀ h 12. 1631 / soc{illeg}|r|o {sic} socro m^r Kent y^t hath a dead palsye cānot speake to bed vnderstood\ |a bad stomack Costive onc in 5 days.| |stomack.|

loynes & stitch stone

vtrū socrus paralyticꝯ sit moriturus. sine consensu

RN Frauncis Marshall of Newport very strangly can scarce speake, only maketh signes for water to coole her her mouth is furred white w^th extreeme heate taketh her Drinke by a quill. first bound but y^t I gave her vnbound her nowe in a laske & extreeme hot & drye Decēb. 12. die ♂ h. 9. 30. mi ant m 1598. troubled in her sleepe.

s {sic} husband  vxore sine cōsensu

RN Margery Clark a midwife of Stony stratford sick at hart y^t shee cannot speake can scarce travell her thighes & legs doe swell. 51. a thick white puddle wat^r. March. 19. die ☾ h. 4. 20. m. p. m. 1599.

RN Thomas Smyth a boy tongue tyed twice or thrice cut: cānot speake

francis Erpe his mother an ach in her back going into her belly & casteth cleere water onc or twice a day & at other tyms

RN William Tomkins \9 y cānot feed him selfe toucheth his hands & legs ev^r sinc Easter./ Francis Tomkins 17 y {sic} |7 y| a boye Marg. Tomkins 14. y.

Williā Tomkins was stroken suddenly. lame in all his lims & cā speake but a litle y^t on cā scarce vnderstand & when he goeth he rūneth as on y^t should light on his head all halloutyde the weddensday after Alhalloutyde was 4 y. hath bene thick of hearing a weeke & curst w^th all.

his right arme as stiffe as a stake came all to me at onc Iuly 25 h {sic} hor. 12. 40 p m 1629 All of thē p^rsent

RN Agnys Lynnell of Dayntry 2 y & thre quaters {sic} nata Aug 16 at 2 in y^e morning {illeg}|t|hen was 2 y & better may 21 ☾ h. 10. 30 ant m. 1632

weake limbs cā not goe nor speake sinc it was bone {sic} hath the sences well¹