Robert Burton(1576/7-1639/40).

[500]Memorandum. Mr. Robert Hooke of Gresham College told me that he lay in the chamber in Christ Church that was Mr. Burton's, of whom 'tis whispered that,non obstanteall his astrologie and his booke of Melancholie, he ended his dayes in that chamber by hanging him selfe.


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