1629: about 3 or 4 yeares old, I had a grievous ague.
I can remember it. I gott not health till 11, or 12: but had sicknesse of vomiting for 12 howres every fortnight for ... yeares; then, it came monethly for ...; then, quarterly; and then, halfe-yearly; the last was in June 1642. This sicknesse nipt my strength in the bud.
1633: 8 yeares old, I had an issue (naturall) in the coronall suture of my head, which continued running till 21.
1634: October[215]: I had a violent fever that was like to have carried me off. 'Twas the most dangerous sicknesse that ever I had.
About 1639 (or 1640) I had the measills, but that was nothing: I was hardly sick.
1639: Monday after Easter weeke my uncle's nag ranne away with me, and gave a very dangerous fall.
1642: May 3, entred at Trinity College, Oxon.
1643: April and May, the small-pox at Oxon; and shortly after, left that ingeniouse place; and for three yeares led a sad life in the countrey.
1646: April ——, admitted of the Middle Temple. But my father's sicknesse, and businesse, never permitted me to make any settlement to my studie.