Elizabeth Sterne married Ignatius Byard, his wife was the daughter of poet Sterne (Selby Times, 1883).
I wonder if poet Sterne was Lawrence Sterne, because if so and referring to the 1912 newspaper, it looks like a relative of John Burton's own family by marriage, Dr Sterne, was trying to frame Burton for Treason?
Selby Times, 9th November 1883
"Samuel Henson, of Wistow, gentleman, married Hannah, daughter of the Rev. Henry Byard, vicar, and for his second wife Mary, daughter of Field Dunn. Mary, his only child, married Dr. Burton, author of the Monasticon Eboracense. Ignatius Byard, surgeon, Selby, and Miss Elizabeth Sterne (daughter of poet Sterne) were married in Wistow Church in 1698."
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Regarding Dr John Burton of York
The Yorkshire Post, 31st July 1912
" "Dr SLOP."
Great Caricaturist's Victim.
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He became a graduate of St. John's College, Cambridge, but afterwards took M.D. at the University of Rheims, and settled in early life as a medical practitioner at York, where, at the Minster on January 2nd, 1735, he married by Licence Mary Henson, the only child of Samuel Henson, of Wistow. At his marriage Burton received a considerable sum of money with his wife, whose father had died in 1717, leaving estates at Woodhall, near Selby, Sikehouse, and elsewhere."
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The newspaper goes on to mention that Dr Jacques Sterne, Canon of York, and Uncle of Lawrence, the author of "Tristram Shandy."
