BOORDE (or BORDE), ANDREW English physician and author, was born at Boord's hill, Holms Dale, Sus sex. He was educated at Oxford, and was admitted a member of the Carthusian order while under age. In 1521 he was "dispensed from religion" in order that he might act as suffragan bishop of Chichester, though he never actually filled the 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 visited the universities of Orleans, Poitiers, Toulouse, Montpellier, and Wit tenberg, saw the practice of surgery at Rome, and went on pilgrim age with others of his nation to Compostella in Navarre. In Boorde was again in London at the Charterhouse, and Thomas Cromwell seems to have entrusted him with a mission to find out the state of public feeling abroad with regard to the English king. In 1S36 he was studying medicine at Glasgow. About 1538 Boorde travelled extensively, visiting nearly all the countries of Europe except Russia and Turkey, and later making his way to 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 continental guide book, his Dietary of Healthe (printed 1562) and his Brevyary (printed 1562). He probably returned to Eng land in 1542. He made his will in the Fleet prison in April See Dr. F. J. Furnivall's reprint of the Introduction and some other selections for the Early English Text Society (new series, 187o).