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 chancel of St. John’s. He was a successful preacher. In 1859 he was appointed ‘select preacher’ at Oxford, but was prevented by his illness from ever fulfilling the duties of that office. At due time he was editor of the ‘British Critic and Theological Review.’ He was twice married. There were no children by either marriage.

He was the author of the following works: 1. ‘An Essay on the Study of Modern History,’ 1821, 8vo. 2. ‘National Education: a Sermon,’ &c., 1833, 8vo. 3. ‘The Educational Economy of England,’ Part i. on the External Economy of Education; or the ‘Means of providing Instruction for the People, 1838, 8vo. 4. ‘The Need of Christianity to Cities: a Sermon,’ &c., 1844, 8vo. 5. ‘One Manifold, or a System; Introductory Argument in a Letter addressed to Raikes Currie, Esq., M.P,,’ 1848, 8vo. 6. ‘Sermons on Various Subjects and Occasions, with a Brief Appendix on the Modern Philosophy of Unbelief,’ 1853, 8vo. 7. ‘Two Sermons on the Prospect of a General War,’ 1854, 8vo. 8. ‘The Position and Functions of Bishops in our Colonies; a Sermon,’ &c., 1856, 8vo. 9. ‘Sermons chiefly on the Theory of Belief,’ 1860, 8vo.

 BOORDE or BORDE, ANDREW (1490?–1549), traveller and physician, ‘Andreas Parforutus’ as he jocosely calls himself, was born at ‘Boords Hill in Holms dayle,’ near Cuckfield, Sussex, some time before or about 1490, as by 1521 he was appointed suffragan bishop of Chichester, and must have therefore then been thirty years old. He was brought up at Oxford, and was received under age—and consequently against their rules—into the strictest order of monks, the Carthusians, evidently at the London Charterhouse. Andrew Boorde is therefore not to be identified with his namesake (the son of John Borda), the bondman or villein regardant-attached to the soil, and sellable with it-of the manor of Ditchling, Sussex, whom Lord Abergavenny manumitted on 27 June 1510 (, Form. Ang. 1702, p. 420), for, if not a free man by birth, his monkhood had made him one, About 1517 he was falsely accused of being ‘conversant with women;’ and in or about 1521 was ‘ dyspensyd with the relygyon by the byshopp of Romes bulles, to be suffrygan off Chycester: the whych I neuer dyd execute the auctore' or authority. About 1528, after some twenty years of vegetarianism and fasting with the Carthusians, Boorde writes to the prior of the Hinton Charterhouse in Somerset, ‘I am nott able to hyd the rugorosite off your relygyon;‘ and he accordingly gets a dispensation from this religous or monkish vow from Prior Batmunson [q.v.], and over sea to school to study medicine. There he ‘travelled for to have the notycyon and practes of Physycke in diners regyons and countres, and returned into Englande’ in 1530. He stayed with Sir Robert Drewry, attended and cured the Duke of Norfolk, and was by him ‘conuocated to wayte on his prepotent Mageste,’ Henry VIII. Then, desiring ‘to haue a trewe cognyscyon of the practis of Physyckef he passed ‘ouer the seas agayne, and dyd go to all the vnyuersities and scoles approbuted and beynge within the precinct Chrystendom.' Of these he names Orleans, Poictiers, Toulouse, and Montpelier in France, and Wittenberg in Germany, and he quotes the practice of surgeons in Rome, and Compostella. in Navarre, whither he went on pilgrimage with nine English and Scotchmen. By 29 May 1534 Boorde was back at the London Charterhouse, and took the oath of conformity (, xiv. 491-2). He was then ‘keppt in thrawldom' there, and freed by Cromwell, whom he visited in Hampshire. Cromwell appears to have sent him abroad (on his third tour) to report on the state of eeling about Henry VIII; and to Cromwell he writes from Bordeaux on 20 June 1535: ‘Sens my departyng from yow, I have perlustratyd Normandy, Frawnce, Gascony, and Byon [Bayonne]: the regyons also of Castyle, Byscay, Spayne, paarte of Portyngale, and returnyd thorow Arogon, Nauerne, and now am att Burdyose. . . and few frendys Ynglond hath in theys partes of Europe, as Jesus your loner knowth.’ The pope, emperor, and all other christian kings (save the French) were, with their people, set against Henry. Boorde then fell ill; but he sent to Cromwell, doubtless from Spain, and with directions for their culture, ‘the seedes off reuberbe, the whiche come owtt od Barbary. In thes purtes ytt ys had for a grett tresure.’ This was nearly two hundred years before the plant was cultivated in England (1742). On his recovery, Boorde returned to England, and went to Scotland, whence he wrote to Cromwell on 1 April 1536: ‘I am now in Skotland, in a lytle vnyuersyte or study named Glasco, wher I study and ‘practyce physyk. . . for the sustentacyon of my lynyng.’ He disliked the Scotch: ‘trust yow no Skott, for they wyll yowse flatteryng wordes ; and all ys falshode.' ‘Also, it is naturelly geuen, or els it is of a deuellyshe dysposicron of a Scottysh man, not to loue nor fauour an Englishe man.' After a year’s stay in Scot-