Casebooks

RN Will: Lovely at the sane {sic} tine {sic} 60 yeres cannot sleepe swelleth in his side at hart & brest

RW M^ris Godwine of Cardington. y. 39. d. ♂ h: 9. 40 ant: m: Feb: 29. 1620. hath had a cold 3 weekꝭ: & a great cough: w^ch settled to her right |left| side: but is removed frō thence: Cryeth out of her heart: & sayth it swimmeth in water: is much plexed & troubled. cannot sleepe nor take rest for 4 nights now togither. her stomacke is so ill that she can not take anie thinge but posset ale & broths.

RN Goody Gilbert of Brougton 24 y. August 12. ♃ hor 7. 52. ant m. 1602. harte & belly cānot sleepe

RN Elis. Ashpole of Newport. 45 y Aug 2. ☾. h. 9 ant m. 1619 |on satt last swoundeth & somtyes {sic} coplayned {sic} in her backe & belly & cānot rest nor make water cānot eate. maketh not \but/ a sponefull of water at a tyme|

RN Rose Bates servant to M^r Allen of Goldington 25 y febr. 15 ♃ h. 12. 50 p m 162i.

ill ever sinc Chistmas by fits cōplayning of the left syde & cā take no rest day nor night.

RN Will Smith \of haversham/ cōplayneth of his head & hart & chest & cannot sleepe & pineth and consumeth in his flesh. Sept 13. die ☿ h. 8. 45. m. verius.

RN Sam Sweane of Stony stratford 5. y. may 10. ☿ h. 9. 45 ant m 1615. hed & belly. |cānot sleepe nor rest will eate p^rtely.|

RN friswyth Constable of marsen w^th will Robyns. 22 y Iuly 6. h {sic} hor. 1. 30 p m 16i6. |in her backe crying & cā fynd no rest|

Dorothy Harrison of Cranfeild 24. y. Decemb. 19. ☾. h. 1. 50. p m. 1631.

much troubled w^th her back. cannot sleepe well, is taken w^th a great paine in her right side, w^ch w^th coughinge strikes vp to her eyes. hath beene thus troubled neare 4. y. but more nowe this winter then before. her yongest Childe 4. y. olde. desireth to know whether she bee w^th Childe or not

RN Mathewe Windmill 30 yeres of age sick this two yeres in liver & milt & hart well by day working but ill always every night lieth hevy hevy {sic} in his chest y^t he cannot sleepe nor tak his rest agaynst weath^r and when he eateth flesh & porrage it heaveth vp his chest. vp from his chest to his harte. it lieth in his the pit of his stomack as if his hart & milte were broken as he him selfe thincketh it payneth him intolerable very cold never better thē when he is working cōplyneth most of chest & harte Novemb. 12 die ☉ at h. 7. 50. mi. 1598. at the first cōming he had a flushing in his hed w^t a gydines but never since

RN M^r Ogles for his kinswomā march 21. ♀. h. 1. 45 p m 1617

he writeth to know mye opinion & iudgment touching his kinswomā.

desyrous to have her brought over to me.

her stomack worse sleepeth litle. is sometyms vppon a sudden tormented w^th sweat & then p^rsently cold. her mynd is to come over vnto me./

RN Will Hopkins of Steaphington 54 y May 24 h {sic} hor 11. 30 ant m 1623 |head & right syde cānot eate nor sleep|

RN Hebby Story of Graftō 26 y may 26. ☾ h. 9 10. ant m. 1606. faynt & feeble & bad stomacke. cānot sleepe heavy & lūpish¹

RN An Rūboll of Buntinford. 26 y Decēb 21 ♀. h. 3. p m. 1632

|2 child living| cānot sleepe cōpl of her backe sweateth mutch

had a vomyt 2 a Cordiall yet still ill faynting f{ear}es for 10 weeks sinc y^t she was brought a bed

An Rūball Decēb 21. ♀ h 3 p m 1632

An Rūball 26 y Decēb 21. ♀ h. 3 1633 {sic}

RN M^res Potter of willing sent for her husb. w^th out his consent at 10. 10. ant m 1599 1600 cannot sleepe his water betwixt yellow & red thick leeke puddle. his stomack hot & his tounge scab & broken out & his head cannot move but as he is turned.

RN francis Chaplin of Hardmead 5 y. Ap. 23. ☿ h. 8. 30 ant m 1617 |hed & belly \hed back chest/ cā take no rest hath a cough|

RN Raynold Davyes broth^rs {sic} wife very sick w^th a cold taken vppon a heate in his brest stomack hed. & belly cannot sleepe Easter dy {sic} Apr. 8 die ☉ h. 6. 45. ant m 1599.

GJ Twidy Nicholas \1608/ of Stony stratford 34 y. a wife feb. 10 ☿ ho. 2. 10 p. m Payne of her head takes no sleepe heart and backe suckles a childe of a quarter

GJ Margaret Hooke of Stonistratfor{d} 60 y. Aug 18. ho. 1. 30. p m A payne in her backe and at her hart Comes like a stitch Cannot sleepe. / vide Iulij 28

Elisabeth Doggett of Westninge. 32. y. March. 1. ♀. h. 12. 20. p m. 1633

a swīming in her head w^th a great Cough for a yeare, much wasted in her Bodye Cannot sleepe nor Eate.