ABSTRACT
Among the families of distinction in the neighbourhood, who were in habits of intimacy at Ravensdale House, one of its most frequent visitors was that of the Reverend Doctor Burton; a clergyman of large preferment and considerable independent fortune. He had been at college with the Earl, where an intimacy commenced which had never met with the smallest interruption, and which had been of mutual advantage to both on many occasions. e Doctor’s una ected piety being joined to great learning, and adorned with the utmost elegance of manners, contributed greatly to that reverence for religion and cautious regard to moral character which distinguished the Earl, and which in a great measure he imbibed from his early acquaintance with him; and his lordship had in return been extremely serviceable to the Doctor, in/ raising him to the lucrative situation in the church which he then enjoyed.
