About Robert Burrant
Lived 1546 – 1553 (aged 6–7). Robert Burrant was a translator.
Robert Burrant (fl. 1553) was an English translator.
He authored works such as an edition of Sir David Lyndsay's , printed by J. Day and W. Serres. This extremely rare volume is in the Grenville Library in the British Museum. It contains a long preface from Roberte Burrante to the Reader, in which, after twenty pages on the judgments of God against evil-doers, he speaks of Beaton's enmity against the gospel and against England, of his habit of swearing, and of his condemnation of George Wishart on 31 March 1546. He also published a translation of the , dedicated to Sir Thomas Caverden, and printed by R. Grafton in 1553.
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