Burghill (Or Burhill), Robert
Burghill (Or Burhill), Robert
an English clergyman, was born at Dymock, Gloucestershire, in 1572, and educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, of which he became a fellow in 1584. He received the living of Northwold, in Norfolk, and became a prebendary of Hereford in 1604. He died in 1641. He published, Invitatorius Panegyricus, ad Regem Optimum de Elizabethce nuper Regince Posteriore ad Oxoniam Adventu, etc. (1603):- De Potestate Regia et Usurpatione Papali, etc. (1613) :-and other works. See Allibone, Diet. of Brit. and Amer. Authors, s.v.