EDITOR'S FOREWORD. 



THE author of the volume to which this serves 

 as introduction was born in 1734 at Asfordby, 

 in Leicestershire, the eldest son and name- 

 sake of the Reverend Andrew Burnaby, a well-to-do 

 clergyman of the Church of England, who served 

 successively as vicar of St. Margaret's, Leicester, 

 rector of Asfordby and prebendary of Lincoln. 



The younger Burnaby was admitted into West- 

 minster School in 1748, and proceeded thence to 

 Queen's College, Cambridge, where he took the de- 

 gree of Bachelor of Arts in 1754, and three years 

 later, that of Master of Arts. In 1759 and 1760, he 

 travelled through the American colonies, and from 

 1762 to 1767, having in the meantime taken orders, 

 he was chaplain to the British factory at Leghorn. 

 During his sojourn in Italy he explored all parts of 

 that country and travelled in Corsica, of which, in 

 1804, he published an account. In 1769, soon after 

 his return to England, he was nominated to the 

 vicarage of Greenwich, and in 1786 he was pre- 



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