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Volume 8 · 65 words · 1797 Edition

(Thomas), a celebrated antiquarian, eminent for his writings and editions of MSS. His father was parish-clerk of Little Waltham in Berkshire, where he was born in 1680. He had a liberal education by the patronage of a neighbouring gentleman; and even from a boy discovered a strong propensity to the study of antiquities. He did great services to the Bodleian library, and died in 1735.