boorde] BRITISH ORNITHOLOGY 81 
1908. On a female Sheld-Duck in eclipse plumage. (Bull. B.O.C. xxiii. 
pp. 21-3.) 
On changes of plumage in the Wigeon. ( T.c . pp. 23-4.) 
1911. On a peculiar type of feather in the Water-Kail. (Brit. Birds, v. 
pp. 42-4.) 
Boorde (Andrew), 1490 ?-l 549 
Little that is authentic is known of the life of this famous 
physician. He was bom, as he tells us, at “ Boords hill in 
Holms dayle,” which Dr. Furnivall, who in 1870 edited for 
the Early English Tract Society (Extra Series, Ho. X.) 
Andrew Boorde' s Introduction and Dyetary , considers to be 
Board Hill, near Haywards Heath in Sussex. Probably 
educated at Oxford, Boorde became a Carthusian monk, 
though under age, and in 1521 was appointed Suffragan 
Bishop of Chichester, though he does not appear to have 
ever officiated as such. He travelled much on the Continent 
and in Britain, was practising medicine at Glasgow in 1536, 
wrote his two most famous works, the Breviary of Health 
and the Dyetary, at Montpelier in 1542, returned to London 
some time afterwards, was living in Winchester m 1547, 
where he was accused of immorality by John Ponet, Bishop 
of that See. On this charge he was cast into the Fleet Prison, 
where he languished till 1549, making his Will on April 11 of 
that year, and dying soon afterwards, his Will being proved 
in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, April 25, 1549. He 
died possessed of lands at Pemsey (Pevensey), Sussex, and 
of houses and “ chattelles ” in Winchester, and of two 
“ tenementes ” at Lynne. 
The Dyetary is said to have been first printed in 1542, 
the first dated edition, the title of which is given below, being 
that of 1562. The Breviary was probably first printed in 
1546 or 1547, as at the end of that work we are informed that 
it was “ examined ” at Oxford in June 1546. It consists 
of an alphabetical list of diseases and their remedies, and 
was intended as a kind of companion to the Dyetary . Two 
passages in ch. xv. of the Dyetary constitute Boorde’s claim 
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