I shall now, as a farther Confirmation of what I have advanced, proceed to prove, that by this _Brenning_ or _Burning_ is meant the _Venereal Disease_, by demonstrating that succeeding Historians, Physical and Chirurgical Writers, and others, have all along with us in _England_ used the very same Word to signify the Venereal Malady. In an old Manuscript, I have, written about the Year 1390. is a Receipt for _Brenning of the Pyntyl, yat Men clepe ye Apegalle; Galle_ being an old English Word for a running Sore. They who know the _Etymology_ of the Word _Apron_, cannot be ignorant of this. And in another Manuscript, written about 50 Years after, is a Receipt for _Burning_ in that Part by a Woman. _Simon Fish_, a zealous Promoter of the _Reformation_ in the Reign of _Hen._ VIII. in his Supplication of Beggars, presented to the King, in 1530, says as follows, _These be they_ (speaking of the _Romish Priests_) _that corrupt the whole Generation of Mankind in your Realm, that catch the Pockes of one Woman and bear them to another; that be_ Burnt _with one Woman and bear it to another; that catch the Lepry of one Woman and bare it unto another_. But to make this Matter still more evident, I am to observe, that _Andrew Boord, M. D._ and Romish Priest, in the same Reign, in a Book he wrote, entitl’d _The Breviary of Health_, printed in 1546, speaks very particularly of this sort of _Burning_; one of his Chapters beginneth thus, _The 19th Chapiter doth shew of_ BURNING _of an Harlot_; where his Notion of communicating the _Burning_ is very particular. He adds, that if a Man be _Burnt_ with an _Harlot_, and do meddle with another Woman within a Day, he shall _Burn_ her; and as an immediate Remedy against the _Burning_, he recommends the washing the _Pudenda_ 2 or 3 times with White Wine, or else with Sack and Water; but if the Matter have continued long, to go to an expert Surgeon for Help. In his 82d _Chapter_, he speaks of _two_ sorts of _Burning_, the _One_ by _Fire_, and the _Other_ by a _Woman_ thro’ carnal Copulation, and refers the Person that is _Burnt_ of a _Harlot_ to another Chapter of his for Advice, what to do, _yf he get a Dorser or two_, so called from its Protuberancy or bunching out: For I find about that Time the Word _Bubo_ was mostly made use of, to signify that sort of Swelling which usually happens in pestilential Diseases.