BOORDE, or BORDE, bord, Andrew, English traveler and physician: b. near Cuck field, Sussex, about 1490; d. 1549. He entered the Carthusian order at the Charterhouse, Lon don, and in 1521 was appointed suffragan bishop of Chichester. The rigor of the Car thusian discipline was too much for him, and about 1528 he obtained a dispensation reliev ing him from his vow. He then studied medi cine on the Continent, returning to England in 1530, but soon afterward again visited the Con tinent, where he studied at the chief medical schools, including those of Orleans, Poitiers, Toulouse, Montpellier and Wittenberg. His journey extended to Rome and Compostella, and in 1534 he was again in England. His next journey was undertaken at the instance of Thomas Cromwell, in order to ascertain continental opinion about Henry VIII. In 1536 he was in Scotland, studying and practising "in a lytle vnyuersyte or study named Glasco,* and he speaks of Scotchmen as deceitful and inveterate haters of the English. During the years 1538-42 he was again on the Continent and this time he went as far as Jerusalem.
While staying in Winchester his open immoral ity got him into trouble and he was afterward lodged in the Fleet Prison, London. Boorde, who jocularly calls himself Andreas Perfora tus, was the author of several works, among which are the following: 'Fyrst Boke of the Introduction of Knowledge' (about 1547) ; a 'Handbook of Europe,' the first of its kind; a (1542) ; a medical treatise entitled 'Breuyary of Health' (1547) ; 'Boke of Berdes,' a condemnation of the beard, known only through an extant portion of a reply by another writer; a book on (Astronamye;' an 'Itinerary of England' ; an of Eu rope'; 'Boke of Sermons,' etc. His 'Fyrst Boke) contains the first printed specimen of the Gypsy language. Many other works, such as 'The Merry Tales of the Mad Men of Gotham,' have been ascribed to Dr. Boorde. Dr. Furnivall edited his 'Introduction' and his 'Dyetary' for the Early English Text So ciety in 1870.