His father owned tenements in London and Burrell and his brothers also managed these properties.
[2] He showed early antipathy towards the King when in 1639 he refused to contribute towards the cost of the Bishops War against the Scots.
[5] Burrell was unusual in writing an agreement with his electorate in which he undertook to demand no payment from the burgesses.
[6] He was a member of the committee for Huntingdonshire, and a commissioner of the High Court of Justice in 1649, but refused to take part in the trial of the King.
[3] Burrell died in 1657, and a memorial was erected to him in the church of St James, Little Paxton.