_Robert Burton, his Birth-place_ (Vol. iii., pp. 106. 157.).--A friend who
has just been reading the _Anatomy of Melancholy_, has referred me to the
following passage, which seems to give conclusive testimony respecting the
birth-place of Burton:--
"Such high places are infinite ... and two amongst the rest, which I
may not omit for vicinities sake, Oldbury in the confines of
Warwickshire, where I have often looked about me with great delight, at
the foot of which hill I was born; and Hanbury in Staffordshire,
contiguous to which is Falde, a pleasant village, and an ancient
patrimony belonging to our family, now in the possession of mine elder
brother, William Burton, Esquire." [Note on words "_I was born._" At
Lindley in Lecestershire, the possession and dwelling place of Ralph
Burton, Esquire, my late {396} deceased father.]--_Anatomy of
Melancholy_, Part ii. Sec 2. Mem. 3. ad fin.
I knew of the following, but as it merely mentions Lindley as the
_residence_ of the family, it would not have answered DR. RIMBAULT'S Query.
"Being in the country in the vacation time, not many years since, at
Lindly in Lecestershire, my father's house," &c.--_Ibid._ Part ii. Sec.
5. Mem. 1. subs. 5.