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Burn , John , c 1743-1802 , magistrate and legal editor
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John Burn was born in and spent most of his life in Orton, Westmorland. He became a magistrate in Cumberland and Westmorland and worked at editing and revising the legal writings of his father, Rev Richard Burn (1709-1785).