PERSCRUTE

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from obsolete French perscruter, from Latin perscrūtāre, from per-  + scrūtāre = scrūtārī to search closely, examine

a 1545 - Boorde (title);
see below From: 
The First Boke of the Introduction of Knowledge 
Made by Andrew Borde
A Compendyous Regyment or A Dyetary of Helth
Compiled by Andrew Boorde
Edited by F. J. Furnivall
Published for the Early English Text Society, 1870
The Introduction Noticed in the Astronamye
P. 16

From: The Retrospective Review:
Consisting of Criticisms Upon, Analyses Of, and Extracts from Curious, 
Valuable, and Scarce Old Books
Vol. I, 1853
Art. V. National Characteristics in the Sixteenth Century.
The first Boke of the Introduction of Knowledge. That which doth teache a man 
to speake parte of all maner of Languages, & to knowe the usage & fashion of al maner 
of Countreys, And for to knowe the moste parte of all maner of Coynes of Money,
ye which is curraunt in every region.
Made by Andrew Borde, of Phisicke Doctor. Dedicated to the right Honorable
and gracious lady Mary, doughter of our soverayne lord kyng Henry the eyght. (1542)
P. 165