The fyrst boke of the introduction of knowledge made by Andrew Borde, of physycke doctor : A compendyous regyment; or, A dyetary of helth made in Mountpyllier / compyled by Andrewe Boorde, of physycke doctour. Barnes in the defence of the berde: a treatyse made, answerynge the treatyse of Doctor Borde upon berdes / edited, with a life of Andrew Boorde, and large extracts from his Brevyary, by F.J. Furnivall.

  • Andrew Boorde
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1870
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Credit: The fyrst boke of the introduction of knowledge made by Andrew Borde, of physycke doctor : A compendyous regyment; or, A dyetary of helth made in Mountpyllier / compyled by Andrewe Boorde, of physycke doctour. Barnes in the defence of the berde: a treatyse made, answerynge the treatyse of Doctor Borde upon berdes / edited, with a life of Andrew Boorde, and large extracts from his Brevyary, by F.J. Furnivall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Fayre stone bridges in England, p. 782-3. Rivers and pooles, p. 783-9. Forestes and parkes in England, p. 789-797. The high wayes of England, from London to Colchester, & Or- ford, p. 797-9. The compasse of England round about by the townes on the sea coste, p. 800-4.” § 8. The Itinerary of Europe. This, though lost to us now, may yet, I hope, turn up some day among some hidden collection of Secretary Cromwell’s papers. Boorde gives the following account of it in the Seventh chapter of his Introduction, p. 145, below : “ for my trauellyng in, thorow, and round about Europ, whiche is all chrystendom, I dyd wryte a booke of euery region, countre, and prouynce, shewynge the myles, the leeges, and the dystaunce from citye to cytie, and from towne to towne; And the cyties & townes names, wyth notable thynges within the precyncte [of], or about, the sayd cytyes or townes, wyth many other thynges longe to reherse at this tyme, the whiche boke at Byshops-AValtam—.viii. myle from Wynchester in Harapshyre,—one Thomas Cromwell had it of me. And bycause he had many matters of [state] to dyspache for al England, my boke was loste, the which myght at this presente tyme haue holpen me, and set me forward in this matter.” (See p. 33.) § 9. A Boke of Sermons. This is not known to us, except by Boorde’s own mention of it in The Extrauagantes, Fol. vi. (See p. 78.) “ shortly to conclude, I dyd neuer se no vertue nor goodnes in Rome but in By shop Adrians days, which wold haue reformed dyuers enormities, & for his good wyl & pretence he was poysoned within .iii. quarters of a yere after he did come to Rome, as this mater, with many other matters mo, be expressed in a boke of my sermons.” This book one would at first assume to have beeu written before 1529-30, when Boorde was first ‘dispensed of religion’ in Prior Bat- manson’s days—as he says in his 5th Letter, p. 58 below,—especially as Pope Adrian VI died Sept. 24, 1523; but as we have no evidence that Boorde went abroad before 1529-30, and then to school to study medicine, we shall be safer in putting the probable date of the Ser- mons at between 1530 and 1534, when Boorde finally gave up his ‘ religion ’ or monkery; though it may have been later, as he was both monk and priest, and signed himself ‘ prest ’ in 1537. The loss of the book is assuredly a great one to us—one of the many losses for