his death he was living in or near Micklegate in York; he was buried at Holy Trinity Church, Micklegate, York, on 21 January. Burton is commonly supposed to have resembled Laurence Sterne's satirical description of him the novel Tristram Shandy as the character Dr Slop: "a little, squat, uncourtly figure...of about four feet and a half perpendicular height, with a breadth of back, and a sesquipedality of belly". However, a sworn testimony of 1746 describes him as "a tall Well sett Gentleman". Printed works His printed works are: Essay on Midwifery, 1761 and 1763. Monasticon Eboracense, vol. i. 1768 (the copy in the King's Library has the first eight pages of the intended second volume, entitled 'The Appendix, containing Charters, Grants, and other Original Writings referred to in the preceding volume, never published before,' York, N. Nickson, 1769). Two tracts on Yorkshire antiquities in Archæologia, 1768–1771. References 1697 births 1771 deaths 18th-century English people 18th-century antiquarians English antiquarians 18th-century English medical doctors 18th-century English writers 18th-century English male writers English medical writers People from Ripon Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford Leiden University alumni Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge People from Colchester