Scope and Content
Medical Certificate with Magistrate's warrant with answers to the following queries: Age of patient, married or single, occupation, how long afflicted, probable cause of derangement, if hereditary, any lucid intervals, and of what duration, if subject to fits, if dangerous to self or others, method used for recovery, habits of life, to what diseases subject, ever deranged before, and where confined.
1. Mary Long of Essenden - "not known"
2. Thomas Roberts, wheelwright of Woburn - "intemperance?"
3. Martha Dickinson, plaiter of Leighton - "puerperal"
4. Mary Chapple of Balsham
5. Dinah Wagstaff, lacemaker of Colmworth
6. Elizabeth Offley of Northampton
7. Robert Smith, turner of Dunton - "irregular habits"
8. Charles Carpenter, labourer of Flamstead - "not known"
9. Hannah Lambert, hawker of St Paul's, Bedford
10. William Parry Nottage, servant of St Paul's, Bedford
11. Charles Luff, carpenter of Hemel Hempstead
12. George Payne, agricultural labourer of Hatfield
13. John Norris, labourer of Ridgmont
14. Sarah Holmes, lacemaker of Battlesden
15. Joseph Cuttrell of Cambridge
16. Isabel Denham of Great Stukeley
17. Elizabeth Culverhouse of Watford
18. Benjamin Muncey, bricklayer of Stevenage - "his father was insane"
19. Ann Sinfield of Maulden - "religion"
20. Ann Bond, labourer of Stukley
21. Phoebe Jiggins of Cambridge
22. Thomas Rawbottom, labourer of Aldenham
23. Mary Spurling, washer woman of St Paul's, Bedford
24. John Simmons, shoemaker of St Cuthbert, Bedford - "drunkeness"
25. Catherine Asplin, lacemaker of Stevington - "fever"
26. Louisa Cook, straw plaiter of Caddington
27. Thomas Goodman, labourer of Eaton Bray - "epilepsy"
28. Peter Paulter, shoemaker of Luton - "religious mania"
29. Jane Tugwood, servant and bonnet sewer of Dunstable - "from committing perjury"
30. Sarah Tugwood of Dunstable - "hereditary"
31. James Lawings, shoemaker of Silsoe - "loss of property"
32. Isaac Charles, labourer of Maulden
33. William Parrott, sawyer of St Paul's, Bedford - "epilepsy"
34. Jacob Read, sawyer of Blunham
35. Sarah Boon of Woburn - "idiot from birth"
36. William Johnson, smith of St Paul's, Bedford
37. Hannah Knight of Carlton
38. James Lane, baker of Codicot - "intemperance"
39. Joseph Lawrence of Hitchin
40. William Gaines of Hitchin
41. Susan Valentine, lacemaker of Eversholt - "injury of the head"
42. Catherine Brain, lacemaker of Kempston - "mental excitement"
43. Sarah Huckle, chairwoman of Eversholt
44. David Spikesley, labourer of Hatfield "injury to the head"
45. Martha Douglass, lacemaker of Harrold
46. William January, farmer of Shingay - "adversity"
47. Thomas Gentle of Hertford
48. Samuel Askew of Thurleigh - "epilepsy"
49. Joseph Cox, hawker of Hertford - "grief by loss of property"
50. Thomas Bell, day labourer of Felmersham - "fits"
51. Charles Bowler of Tring
52. Sarah Wench of Harpenden - "constitutional"