Andrew Boord gave up his vows as a Carthusian on account of their "rugorosite," and became a doctor, travelling much on the Continent. Several books are known to be his, chief among them the _Dyetary_ and _Brevyary of Health_. He wrote also an _Itinerary of England_ and is credited by some with the _Merrie Tales of the Mad Men of Gotham_. Lower and Horsfield indeed hold that the Gotham intended was not the Nottinghamshire village but Gotham near Pevensey, where Boord had property. That he knew something of Sussex is shown by _Boord's Boke of Knowledge_, where he mentions the old story, then a new one, that no nightingale will sing in St. Leonard's Forest. It is the _Boke of Knowledge_ that has for frontispiece the picture of a naked Englishman with a pair of shears in one hand and a piece of cloth over the other arm, saying: I am an English man and naked I stand here, Musing in my mund what rayment I shall were; For now I wyll were this, and now I wyl were that; Now I wyl were I cannot tel what. We shall see Andrew again when we come to Pevensey. [Sidenote: OLD WILLS] A glimpse of the orderly mind of a pre-Reformation Cuckfield yeoman is given in a will quoted recently in the _Sussex Daily News_, in an interesting series of articles on the county under the title of "Old-time Sussex": "In the yere of our lorde god 1545. the 26 day of June, I, Thomas Gaston, of the pish of Cukefelde, syke in body, hole, and of ppt [perfect] memorie, ordene and make this my last will and test, in manr. and forme folling. Fyrst I bequethe my sowle to Almyghty god or [our] lady St. Mary and all the holy company of heyvyng, my bodie to be buried in the church yarde of Cukefeld. It. (item) to the Mother Church of Chichester 4_d._ It. to the hye alter of Cuckfeld 4_d._ It. I will have at my buryall 5 masses. In lykewise at my monthes mynd and also at my yerely mynd all the charge of the church set apart I will have in meate and drynke and to pore people 10_s._ at every tyme." The high altar was frequently mentioned favourably in these old wills. Another Cuckfield testator, in 1539, left to the high altar, "for tythes and oblacions negligently forgotten, sixpence." The same student of the _Calendar of Sussex Wills in the District Probate Registry at Lewes, between 1541 and 1652_, which the British Record Society have just published, copies the following passage from the will of Gerard Onstye, in 1568: "To mary my daughter _£_20, the ffeatherbed that I lye upon the bolsters and coverlete of tapestaye work with a blankett, 4 payres of shetts that is to say four pares of the best flaxon and other 2 payre of the best hempen the greate brasse potte that hir mother brought, the best bord-clothe (table cloth?) a lynnen whelle (_i.e._, spinning-wheel) that was hir mothers, the chaffing dish that hangeth in the parlor."