ANDREW, a physician, was born at Pevensey in Sussex, early in the 16th century, and supposed to have been educated at Westminster school. In his Introduction to Knowledge, he says, that he was a student of Oxford; but of what college he does not mention. He left the university without a degree, and entered himself a brother of a Carthusian convent in or near London; but not liking the severe discipline of that order, he returned to Oxford, and applied himself to the study of physic. Some time after, he embarked for the continent; and, as himself expresses it, "travelled through and round about Christendom, and out of Christendom into some parts of Africa." In the years 1541 and 1542, he resided at Montpelier in France, where he was made doctor of physic, and after his return to England was incorporated into the same degree at Oxford. From the preface to his introduction above mentioned, it appears that he had been in Scotland, which probably was soon after his return from France. Having now satisfied his inclination for travelling, he settled first at Pevensey where he was born, afterwards at Winchester, and finally in London, where he is said to have become a fellow of the college of physicians, and first physician to King Henry VIII. But notwithstanding his eminence in his profession, he had the misfortune to spend the latter part of his life in the Fleet prison, where he died in the year 1549. As to his character, Wood says that "he was esteemed a noted poet, a witty and ingenious person, and an excellent physician." Pits calls him a man of sufficient learning, but too volatile and inconstant. Bale and some others, on the contrary, abuse him grossly. His writings are, 1. A book of the introduction of knowledge, the which doth teach man to speak part of all manner of languages, &c. Lond. 1542, 4to; dedicated, from Montpelier, to the Lady Mary daughter to Henry VIII. It is written partly in verse, and partly in prose, containing 39 chapters, before each of which is a wooden print of a man. 2. The breviary of health, wherein are remedies for all manner of sicknesses and diseases, &c. Lond. 1547, &c. 4to. 3. Dietary of health, Lond. 1576, 8vo. 4. The merry tales of the madmen of Gotham. Printed, says Wood, in the time of Henry VIII, in whose reign, and after, it was accounted a book full of wit and mirth by scholars and gentlemen. Afterwards being often printed, it is now only sold on the stalls of ballad-singers. 5. A right pleasant and merry history of the mylner of Abington, with his wife and his fair daughter, and of two poor scholars of Cambridge. Lond. printed by Richard Jones, 4to. 6. A book of every region, country, and province; which shows the miles and leagues distant from city to city, and from town to town, with the noted things in the said cities and towns. Wood says that the author lent the manuscript of this book. BORDEL book to his friend Thomas Cromwell, who lost it, to the great grief of the author, who would otherwise have published it. In this instance, however, the an- tiquary was misinformed; for it has since been published by Hearne at the end of Benedictus abbas Peterb. de vita Henrici II. Oxf. 1735, 8vo. 7. The principles of astronomy, the which diligently persecuted is in a manner a prognostication to the world. Lond. printed by Robert Copland, 12mo. The author says that he wrote this little book in four days, with one old pen without mending.