Burton was born at Birsall in Yorkshire in 1579. He was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, and became Rector of St. Matthew's, Friday Street about 1626. He had been Clerk of the Closet to Prince Henry, and afterwards to Prince Charles; a position in which he was not continued when Charles became King. In this bitter disappointment he produced the books now under consideration, for which he was prosecuted in the Star Chamber, and sentenced to lose his ears in the Palace Yard at Westminster, to be fined £5000 to the King, and to perpetual imprisonment. He was confined in the Isle of Guernsey, but was liberated at the beginning of the Long Parliament. 69. The Letany of John Bastwick, Doctor of Phisicke, being now full of devotion, as well in respect of the common calamities of plague and pestilence, as also of his owne particular miserie, lying at this instant in _Limbo Patrum_. Printed by the speciall procurement and for the especiall use of our English Prelats, in the yeare of remembrance, Anno 1637. The answer of John Bastwick, _Doctor of Phisicke_, to the exceptions made against his Letany by a learned Gentleman, which is annexed to the Litany itselfe, as Articles superadditionall against the Prelats. This is to follow the Letany as a second part thereof. Printed in the yeare of remembrance, Anno 1637. The Answer of John Bastwick, _Doctor of Phisicke_, to the information of Sir John Bancks, Knight, Atturney universall. Printed in the yeare 1637. XVI New Quæres proposed to our Lord Prælates. Printed in the yeare M.DC.XXXVII.