Robert Burrant (

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1553) was an English translator. He authored works such as an edition of Sir

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's , printed by J. Day and W. Serres. This extremely rare volume is in the Grenville Library in the

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. It contains a long preface from Roberte Burrante to the Reader, in which, after twenty pages on the judgments of God against evil-doers, he speaks of Beaton's enmity against the gospel and against England, of his habit of swearing, and of his condemnation of

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on 31 March 1546. He also published a translation of the , dedicated to Sir Thomas Caverden, and printed by R. Grafton in 1553.

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