Elynor Aylet of Magdalen Laver, 41 years. Wednesday 14 August 1633, 1 pm. Metuit veneficium [fears witchcraft].
[Chart.]
[Right column] Since her last sending unto me has been troubled with the toothache & swelling in their faces. Troubled with dreams & other pains. & her teeth ache. & has lost a very good goose 3 weeks since & her horse was put into a close & was found dead in the morning. Her cattle ill or dead & others likely to die. Has changed the air & has been often worse abroad than at home.
[Left column] Her old serv[ant] maid. A fly came to Faith Sage & did so hit her in her face she saw it not but heard the wing of it. She dwells but a mile from her mistress. Cannot rest day. Cannot rest day nor night for 5 days.
[Astrology.]
Her cow died. Gave their dugs few [meaning unclear], cannot make her cheese to run.
[Treatment information.]
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Mistress Holland of London, 23 years at Hallowtide last. Tuesday 6 May 1606, 10.00 am. Taken first on Wednesday Easter week at night in her bed at 12 pm. A thing like a dog came upon her. Made her foam & skrike. She said she saw some ill thing in her bed coming to her like a cat or a dog as she lay with her husband that struck her with a dead palsy.
[Chart.]
Was a very modest woman. Cares not what she says in this taking. Taken with a palsy all over her left side. Mopish in her wits by fits at an instant. Draws her arms & legs after her. Talks idly. Is with child & looks to be delivered about a month hence. A very good urine with some motes. A sudden flash & motion of the brain.
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Marge Glenister of Newport, 38 years. Saturday 30 November 1622, 11.25 am. At the latter end of harvest a magpie came into her house & did hang upon a painted cloth and of himself went out and presently did fly up into her loft and was never seen after. And [she] fell presently sick and did take a great cold and has a sore cough that her son 8 weeks {which} hath in a manner broken the skin of her belly and is very feeble and weak yet does not keep her bed. Still coughing.
Goody Howat suspected. Often abused and called witch. Sigil of tin. A red aguish water.
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[Frederick King, 4 years, of Bucknell.] Monday 28 April 1628, 10 am. Complained of a running up & down his legs arms ears & neck like a mouse & bite him by the prick. The child in the fit quakes & stamps. Taken so yesterday.
Aguish water.
[In chart] Quakes trembles. Cries out of mice running up & down his legs, arms, ears, neck.
[Treatment information.]
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For a greyhound lost of my Lord of Cumberland which broke loose in William Holman’s house in Water Lane. Thursday 2 January 1595, 8 am.
[Chart.]
This dog after he broke loose he ran straight to Charter House which is right north north west from Water Lane. And from thence to Gray’s Inn Fields and there was taken up by a leather dresser the same day. And he sold the dog to a tapster for 5s. And the tapster did use to carry him out daily into Grays Inn Fields where the dog was espied by one that knows him.
Mercury lord of the 6th retrograde signifier of the dog. In 12 degrees in signal. Says the dog shall be had again because Sun is joined to the ascendant.
The distance between the dog now and the place from which he went is signified by distance of the ascendant between Saturn & Moon which is 25 minutes which signifies a mile and better. Under pars fortuna because it is in fixed signs & in angels.
[Case 79952 is a second question for the same dog, ‘found again the 9 of January in Grays Inn Fields.’]
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Luce Basell of Olney, 40 years. Sunday 28 February 1602, 4.40 pm.
[Chart.]
Had not sickness till 8 or 10 weeks since. She cannot keep her meat ever since this sennet. Comes up shakes and burns with cold. Asks if she is pregnant. Urine of a mediocre colour.
[Right of chart] Jane Drubb did curse her, and presently had a calf that foamed and died. Beat hard against the ground. Taken grief and fear by the womb.
[Treatment information.]
[Astrology.]
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Joan Trapnell of Husband Crowley, a widow, 52 years. Saturday 15 September 1632, 3 pm. Her breasts will give no milk. Had a sigil of Jupiter & while she kept it her cow gave her 5 quarts now scarce one. I suppose that the putting of it off made her cow to pine.
She brought me two cakes.
1. Sigil of Jupiter 2 cakes.
2. A new sigil of Jupiter.
Mary Green suspected.
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Anne Ablestone of Olney, 29 years. Monday 24 January 1631, 1.45 pm.
[Chart.]
[Bottom right of chart] [Treatment information.]
A thing like a cat sits on 4 of them every night.
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John and Anne Fletcher on St Dunsten’s Hill. Questo Tuesday 3 May 1597, 9.40 am. Lost a little bitch on Sunday last with 6 silver bells about her neck & greenish & bluish velvet collar. Lost in the Crutched Friar at 4 pm on Sunday last. A white bitch, on each side a red spot. Red cheeks, red ears & white star in the forehead & all the hinder parts white.
[Chart.]
It seems it is not far from here but in some neighbours house.
[Astrology. Including: Mercury should signify the party [that] took up the dog … signifies a brother or sister to take it … But Mercury gives virtue to Venus signifies the dog shall be give away.]
[Right of chart] Hester Carkor alias Fletcher in Wood Street at the Roebuck was met in Fleet Street the 4 of May between 5 & 6 of the night carrying the dog.
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Margaret Foster of Cardington, 18 years. Friday 26 March 1630, 1 pm.
Ill a fortnight afore Christmas with a wringing pain of her heart & chest & navel with extreme grippings by fits & does cast often times & is not well until she has casted. Never had them [menstruation]. Urine good.
[Treatment information.]
Elizabeth Millard suspect gave her drink once and never since well. & Also Alice Hyde suspected. Said that she had a ready faery. & Came to her in the likeness of a cock and a child. Easter Monday about 9 put on her sigil of Jupiter 8 am.
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Alice Lambert of Northampton, 21 years. Friday 2 November 1620, 11 am. 21 a month before midsummer last at 11 at night, Saturday.
Married a fortnight. Sleeps much & ill a week over with musing. Urine red & thick. She does skrike & says that there is a black crow.
[Treatment information.]
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Jeffery Hasker of Shenly, 38 years. Friday 5 February 1619, 12.39 pm. Much urine and thin. Argues [i.e. indicates] obstructions. He has taken much grief because his wife killed her child with beating & the Crown has set upon it. He fears that something did haunt his wife. Had lost her senses on a sudden. & this man thinks that he putting out his hand felt a thing like a cat. Complains of the reins of his back. Has a rising in his stomach.
[Left margin] Mind troubled.
[Treatment information.]
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Elizabeth Cox of Olney, 14 years. Thursday 7 March 1633, 9.30 am.
[In chart] Epilepsy of the matrix with convulsions. Foams.
[Below chart] Strangely handled that 5 or 6 can scarce keep her down. Talks that she sees some woman & that a cat appears.
Was 2 years since handled & the witch was searched & the woman committed & died in prison & has [breaks off]. She had a vomit & wrought well.
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Goody Rose of Cosgrave. Tuesday 5 May 1607, 12 am. Had a calf bitten with a mad dog which was giddy & knocked it in the head & this dog did bite five of her children & snapped some in the hand some in the feet.
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Richard Read of Alderton, 21 years. Bitten in the hand with a mad dog. Bitten on Sunday. Another boy John Dawson of Alderton, 8 years bitten with a mad dog Wednesday last. John Dawson washed with salt & brine & did eat of the liver.
1 Cup him thrice with scarification
2 Garlic herb of gare(?) salt treacle. Apply it & drink of the same for a week’s space.
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Edmond Hannell of Heath and Reach, 24 years. Thursday 29 July 1624, 10.30 am. It took him on Sunday afternoon by a mad dog. Under the wrist. Take a piece of cheese with certain words written on it & also the dog’s liver.
[Treatment information.]
Bleeds much.
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