Robert Burton

*Robert Burton*, otherwise *Democritus Junior*, the author of that glorious book *The Anatomy of Melancholy*, is stated by Wood to have been born at Lindley, in Leicestershire. Plot, however, in his *Natural History of Staffordshire*, 1686, p.276., gives the place of his birth, Fald, in the latter county; and, furthermore, says he was shown the very house of his nativity. Can any of your correspondents throw any light upon this subject?