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means of which a communication is opened with Liver¬ 
pool, Brifto), Manchefter, Birmingham, and London, by 
way of Coventry and Oxford. 
Burton is a place of great antiquity. At the fouth end 
of the town, on the banks of the Trent, hand the vene¬ 
rable remains of an abbey, founded in the year 1004, by 
Ulfric Spot; to which he gave iiis whole property. Not 
far from the abbey, a little northward, hood the parifh- 
church dedicated to St. Modwena, a venerable and fpa- 
cious ftriRture, ornamented with two loity ipires : which 
would have endured the blalls of many fucceeding years, 
had it not been taken down, and the prefent one ereffted in 
its place, by fubferiptions and parifli-rates, on a much 
fmaller fcale, about the year 1 722. The prefent church 
is of modern architecture, and much admired foritsneat- 
nefs. Here is a free grammar-fehool for the education of 
boys in claflics, reading, writing, and arithmetic ; alfo 
two alms-houfes, for the maintenance of twelve poor wo¬ 
men. The bridge which is eredted over the Trent, at the 
north-eaft corner of the town, is uncommonly extenfive, 
confiding of thirty-fix arches. At what peiiod it was 
ereiSted feems uncertain. Some parts of it are very an¬ 
cient, and have the appearance of Saxon architecture. 
About the central part of it the counties of Stafford and 
Derby unite. At the weft end formerly (food an ancient 
building, probably a chapel, fome years tinee taken down. 
In 1322, during the civil commotions of Henry II. the 
the earl of Lancafter, having joined his forces againft the 
king with thofe of the earl of Hereford, polled himfelf at 
this bridge, where he endeavoured to defend the pafiages 
of the river. The town has of late years been very much 
improved, and is paved and lighted in the modern tafte. 
In the hamlet of Strctton near this town, the Grand Trunk 
canal palfcs over the river Dove, by means an aqueduct 
-of twelve arches ; and a few yards above the aqueduct, 
the turnpike-road from Burton to Derby palfes over the 
Dove, by means of a ftrong ftone bridge. This river, 
which riles in the Peak of Derbyfhire, and divides, the 
counties of Derby and Stafford, fails into the Trent about 
a mile below the bridge. A few miles from Burton (lands 
the pleafant and extenfive village of Repton, anciently 
Reppendune. This village was undoubtedly a place of 
great confequence many centuries fince. In 875, in the 
reign of Alfred, an army of Danes took up their ffation 
here under their prince Halfden, and laid the w'hole coun¬ 
try defolate with fire and fword. Here was formerly a 
priory, which fell, with other religious houfes, into the 
hands of Henry VJ 1 I. The free-fehool, for the education 
of boys in daffies, &c, appears to be part of the remains 
of this building; whofe walls, and other appendages, 
were very extenfive. It (lands near the eaft end of the 
church. At the fouth entrance of the (chool-yard is a 
lofty and venerable Gothic arch ; and a little northward is 
the houfe of the head mailer. This fchool was founded 
by Sir J.olm Port, probably more than two centuries (ince, • 
and is endowed with lands to a very confiderable amount. 
The church, dedicated to the Holy Trinity, is a handfome 
Gothic building, with a verv beautiful fpi're. J11 this 
church are (ten the monuments of many, families now ex¬ 
tinct ; amongft which is one of great antiquity, faid to be 
in memory of. a Mercian king. Udder the chancel ap¬ 
pears to be a fpacious vault, fupported by pillars of the 
Saxon order. At this place is the pleafant refidence of 
-Sir Robert Burdett, Bart, near which, on the banks of 
the Trent, is a large cavern, called Anchor-church-, fup- 
pofed to have formerly been the habitation of an anchorite. 
The chapelry of Bretby is in the pari fit of Repton. This 
place was formerly the noble and liofpitable refidence of 
the light honourable the earls of Ch.efterfield, The houfe 
and its appendages, which were large and fpacious, ere< 5 t- 
ed in the laft century, were in their day juftly efteemed, 
in point of grandeur and magnificence, the firft in Derby- 
fltire, except Chatfworth, the feat of his grace the duke 
of Devonfitire. This grand edifice, however, became 
t3.egle.6ted and uninhabited and a few years lince the build- 
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ing, which would have flood for many generations, was 
taken down and the materials difpofed of. A beautiful 
chapel, adjoining to the houfe, the floor and altar-piece 
of which were'of marble, and the pulpit, pews, gallery, 
and organ, of cedar, in which divine fc-rvice was ufually 
performed, alfo fell into difufe, and came piece-meal un¬ 
der tiie hammer ! 
BURUGERD', a town of Perfia, in the province of 
Irak Agemi : ninety-two miles fotitli-eall of Amadan. 
BURULUK', a town of Ruftia, in the government of 
Vo.ronez : ninety-fix miles Couth-weft of Voronez. 
BURUN', a town of European Turkey, in the province 
of Romania : fifty miles eaft of Emboli. 
BURUNNIUT APCH A'RA, a cape in the Cafpian Sea: 
II 2 miles S. of Guriev. Lat. 52. 50. N. Ion. 81. E. Ferro. 
BUR'WAH, a town of Hindooftan, in the country of 
Bahar : fifty-five miles eaft of Surgooja, and 115 miles 
fouth of Patna. 
BUR'WASH, a finall port in SufTex, remarkable for 
its cleanlinefs and falubrity of the air; the houfes are neat, 
and the river Rot her runs about a mile north-eaft of the 
town. It has no market. The fairs are May 12, and 
September 4. 
BUR'WIS,/ in the Courland mythology, a fpecies of 
forcerers or magicians, held in high veneration, becaufe 
they were believed to have confiderable influence over ma¬ 
lignant fpirits. 
BU'RY, f [from burg. Sax.} A dwelling-place: a ter¬ 
mination (fill added to the names of feveral places : as, 
Aldermanbury, St. Edmund's Bury ; fometimes written bery. 
BU'RY, f. [corrupted from borough. ] The hole or den 
of fome animal under ground.—It is his nature to dig him- 
felf buries , as the coney doth. Grew. 
To BU'RY, v. a. \_byrigean, Saxon.}' To inter; to* put 
into a grave : 
After your way his tale pronounc’d,, ftiall bury 
His reafons with his body. Shahefpeare, 
To inter, with the rites and ceremonies of fepulture : 
If you have kindnefs left, there fee me laid ; 
And bury decently the injur’d, maid. Waller, 
To conceal; to hide : 
This is the way to make the city flat, 
And bury all, which yet diftindtly ranges, 
I II heaps and piles of ruin. Shakefpeare, 
To place one thing within another : 
A tearing groan did break 
The name of Antony ; it was divided 
Between her heart and lips; (he render’d life,. 
Thy name fo bury'd in her. Sliakefpeare. 
BU'RY, a confiderable town in Lancafhire, fituated’ 
nine miles north of Manchefter, in a fertile valley on the 
banks of the river Jrwell. There is a good market on 
Thurfdays ; and there are three fairs in the year, viz. on 
the 5th ot March, 3d of May, and 18th of September, for 
borned cattle, &c. This town is famous for its manufac¬ 
tories of cotton ; and the bufinefs of calico-printing is ear¬ 
ned on to a very great extent. The church (formerly an 
ancient Gothic ftrueture) was rebuilt in the year rySo. 
Here is an elegant grammar-fehool, which was well en¬ 
dowed by Mr. Kay of Woodhill, near Bury; likewife a. 
charity-fchooi for the education of eighty boys and thirty 
girls, founded by the R-ev. John Stanley, late re <51 or of 
Bury. Here is a navigable canal to Manchefter, which 
winds along the banks of the river Irv.elL Bury is dif- 
tant from Rociidale feven miles; Botton fix miles; Haf- 
lingden nine miles; and 192 from London. Several Ro¬ 
man coins have been dug up here. A dreadful accident- 
happened in this town July 5-, *787, by the fall of the 
theatre; by which, more than 300 perfons were inclofecl 
among the ruins; many were killed, others greatly bnuif- 
ed, and very few efcaped unhurt. 
BU'RY St. ED'MUND’s, a handfome and pleafant 
boroughs 
