Education
He was educated in Sutton-on-Lound and at Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he became a Fellow.
He was educated in Sutton-on-Lound and at Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he became a Fellow.
He is mentioned in Pepys"s Diary. He was chaplain to Orlando Bridgeman, and used the contact to support Cumberland. He was characterised as a Latitudinarian.
Anthony Wood says that a club formed by Wilkins to promote comprehension used to meet at the "chambers of that great trimmer and latitudinarian, Doctor Hezekiah Burton."
A position as rector of Barnes he obtained through Tillotson in 1680 was cut short by his death from illness.
He had previously been a prebendary of Norwich, and from 1668 rector of Street George the Martyr Southwark.