Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Burley, John (d.1333)

by Arthur Miller

BURLEY, JOHN (d. 1333), a Carmelite of Stamford, whom Leland mentions only in order to distinguish him from the better known Walter Burley. Pits, possibly confusing him with Walter, attributes to him commentaries on Porphyry, Aristotle, and Peter Lombard, and says also that he opposed the division of his order in England into provinces, a division which was, however, carried out. His name is not given in the ‘Bibliotheca Carmelitana,'

[Leland, De script. Brit. p. 355, Pits, De Rebus Anglicis, p. 428.]

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