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BOORDE (or BoRnE), ANDREW (1490?-1549)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 238 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BOORDE (or See also:BoRnE), See also:ANDREW (1490?-1549)  , See also:English physician and author, was See also:born at Boord's See also:Hill, Holms See also:Dale, See also:Sussex . He was educated at See also:Oxford, and was admitted a member of the Carthusian See also:order while under See also:age . In 1521 he was " dispensed from See also:religion " in order that he might See also:act as See also:suffragan See also:bishop of See also:Chichester, though he never actually filled237 the See also:office, and in 1529 he was freed from his monastic vows, not being able to endure, as he said, the " rugorosite off your relygyon." He then went abroad to study See also:medicine, and on his return was summoned to attend the See also:duke of See also:Norfolk . He subsequently visited the See also:universities of See also:Orleans, See also:Poitiers, See also:Toulouse, See also:Montpellier and See also:Wittenberg, saw the practice of See also:surgery at See also:Rome, and went on See also:pilgrimage with others of his nation to Compostella in See also:Navarre . In 1534 See also:Boorde was again in See also:London at the See also:Charterhouse, and in 1536 wrote to See also:Thomas See also:Cromwell, complaining that he was in " thraldom " there . Cromwell set him at See also:liberty, and after entertaining him at his See also:house at Bishops See also:Waltham in See also:Hampshire, seems to have entrusted him with a See also:mission to find out the See also:state of public feeling abroad with regard to the English See also:king . He writes to Cromwell from various places, and from See also:Catalonia he sends him the seeds of See also:rhubarb, two See also:hundred years before that plant was generally cultivated in See also:England . Two letters in 1535 and 1536 to the See also:prior of the Charterhouse anxiously argue for his See also:complete See also:release from monastic vows . In 1536 he was studying medicine at See also:Glasgow and gathering his observations about the Scots and the " devellyshe dysposicion of a Scottysh See also:man, not to love nor favour an Englishe man." About 1538 Boorde set out on his most extensive See also:journey, visiting nearly all the countries of See also:Europe except See also:Russia and See also:Turkey, and making his way to See also:Jerusalem . Of these travels he wrote a full itinerary, lost unfortunately by Cromwell, to whom it was sent . He finally settled at Montpellier and before 1542 had completed his Fyrst Boke of the Introduction of Knowledge, which ranks as the earliest See also:continental See also:guide See also:book, his See also:Dietary and his Brevyary . He probably returned to England in 1542, and lived at See also:Winchester and perhaps at See also:Pevensey .

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John Ponet, bishop of Winchester, in an See also:Apology against Bishop See also:Gardiner, relates as See also:matter of See also:common knowledge that in 1547 See also:Doctor Boord, a physician and a See also:holy man, who still kept the Carthusian rules of See also:fasting and wearing a See also:hair See also:shirt, was convicted in Winchester of keeping in his house three loose See also:women . For this offence, apparently, he was imprisoned in the See also:Fleet, where he made his will on the 9th of See also:April 1549 . It was proved on the 25th of the same See also:month . Thomas See also:Hearne (See also:Benedictus Abbas, i. p . 52) says that he went See also:round like a See also:quack doctor to See also:country fairs, and therefore rashly supposed him to have been the See also:original merry-See also:andrew . Andrew Boorde was no doubt a learned physician, and he has See also:left two amusing and often sensible See also:works on domestic See also:hygiene and medicine, but his most entertaining book is The Fyrst Boke of the Introduction of Knowledge . The whyche dothe teache a man to speake parte of all maner of See also:languages, and to know the usage and See also:fashion of all maner of countreys . And for to know the moste parte of all maner of coynes of See also:money, the whych is See also:currant in every region . Made by Andrew Borde, of Physycke Doctor . Dedycated to the right See also:honourable and gracious See also:lady See also:Mary daughter of our soverayne Lorde Kyng See also:Henry the eyght (c . 1547) . The Englishman describes himself and his foibles—his fickleness, his fondness for new fashions and his obstinacy—in lively See also:verse .

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geographical description of the country, followed by a See also:model See also:dialogue in the Cornish See also:language . Each country in turn is dealt with on similar lines . His other See also:authentic works are: Here foloweth a Compendyous Regimente or Dyetary of See also:health, made in Mountpyllor (Thomas Colwell, 1562), of which there are undated and doubtless earlier See also:editions; The Brevyary of Health (1547 ?) ; The Princyples of Astronamy (1547?); "The Peregrination of Doctor See also:Board," printed by Thomas Hearne in Benedictus Abbas Petroburgensis, vol. ii . (1735) ; A Pronostycacyon or an Almanacke for the yere of our lorde MCCCCCXLV. made by Andrew Boorde . His Itinerary of Europe and Treatyse upon Berdes are lost . Several jest-books are attributed to him without authority—The Merie Tales of the Mad Men of Gotam (earliest extant edition, 163o), Scogin's Jests (1626), A mery jest of the Mylner of Abyngton, with his wyfe, and his doughter, and of two See also:Poore scholers of See also:Cam-See also:bridge (printed by Wynkyn de Worde), and a Latin poem, Nos Vagabunduli . See Dr F . J . See also:Furnivall's reprint of the Introduction and some other selections for the See also:Early English See also:Text Society (new See also:series, 1870) .

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