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I (hall now, as a farther Confirmation of what I have 
advanced, proceed to prove, that by this or 
'BUntinS meant the Venereal Difeafe, by demon- 
ftrating that fucceeding Hiftorians, Phyfical and Chi- 
rurgical Writers, and others, have all along with us in 
England ufed the very fame Word to fignify the Vene- 
real Malady. In an old Manufcript i have by me, 
written about the Year >390. is a Receipt for 
ning of t^c pyntpl, pt men clepe ve apegalle 5 
0alle being an old Englilh Word for a running Sore. 
They who know the Et'jmologk of the Word Afron^ 
cannot be ignorant of this. And in another Manufcript, 
written about 50 Years after, is a Receipt for *BUCn= 
ing in that Part by a Woman. Simon Fijh, a zealous 
Promoter of the Reformation in the Reign of Hen.VUL 
in his Supplication of Beggars, prefented to the King 
in 1530, fays as follows, Thefe he they ( fpeaking of the 
Romijh Priejls ) that corrupt the whole Generation of Man- 
hind in your Realm^ that catch the Pocket of one Woman 
and hear them to another 5 that he 'BUtnt tvith one Worn n 
and hare it to another ; that catch the Lepry of one Wo- 
man and hare it unto another. But to make this Matter 
fUll more evident, 1 am to obferve, that Andrew Boordf 
a Dodor in Phyfick, and Romifh Pried, in the Reign 
of Henry VIII. in a Book he wrote , entitul’d Ihe 
Breviary of Health, printed in 1546. fpeaks very par- 
ticularly of this fort of Burning ; one of his Chapters 
beginneth thus, 19th CtepUCC Cbcti) Of 
Burning of nn l^atlottc *, where lus Notion of com- 
municating the Burning is very particular. The fame 
Author adds, that if a Man be 'BUtUt with an Har- 
lot, and do meddle with another Woman within a Day, 
he fliall OBUlCn the Woman that he lhall meddle with- 
al ; and as an immediate P^.cmedy againft the 'BlltU- 
ing; he recommends the vvafiiing the Pudenda two or: 
three 
