Letter 0007

(f. 25) I have been from home two or three daies since I write to yu & received not yr letter till this morning during my absence my wife was much out of order & feaverish yesterday & this day she has been better, but I believe she may have taken some cold & has somewhat of a feaverish distemper upon her, for her illness returns every night about six or seven a clocke & then shee is taken with a paine in her necke burning & pricking in her feet & a paine in her head & it lasts so five or six hours she is pretty well all day till about that time & abroad a way to this [illeg] that time or somewhat later I believe it did not take her by an hour so soon to night as last night, whither you must give her any of the drinke or what you thinke proper I refer to you, but desire you to send me word to morrow morning, & if you order Mr Clapman he will send it to my chamber, & if she is not pretty well to morrow morning I will send up a man for it otherwise he may find it by my Clerke in ye Evening. before I read ye letter she had drinke some waine whey this morning but soon cast it up again having some oppression in her stomach, but after that was pretty well again & eat less dinner & so continued till about seven or eight when the fitt returned beginning with pricking pain & heat in her feet & legs & a paine in her necke & head & then her Temper feaverish as I have before mentioned.