THOMAS, an eminent English bishop in the 17th century, was bred at Winchester school, whence he went to Oxford; and in 1669 was made a prebend of Winchester. In 1675, the year of the Jubilee, he travelled to Rome; and used to say, He had reason to give God thanks for his travels, having returned more confirmed of the purity of the reformed religion than he was before. He was appointed by King Charles II. to attend the lord Dartmouth at the demolishing of Tangier; and at his return was made chaplain to his majesty, as he was some time after to the princess of Orange, then residing in Holland. In 1685, he was consecrated bishop of Bath and Wells. The month following he attended King Charles II. at his death; and gave close attendance at the royal bed for three whole days and nights, watching proper intervals to fuggel pious and proper thoughts on that serious occasion. In the following reign he zealously opposed the progress of Popery; and in June 1688, he, with five other bishops and the archbishop of Canterbury, was committed prisoner to the Tower of London, for subscribing a petition to his majesty against the declaration of indulgence. Upon the Revolution, however, he refused to take the oaths to King William and Queen Mary, on which account he was deprived of his bishopric. Her majesty Queen Anne bestowed on him a yearly pension of 200l. to his death in 1710. He published several pious books. His charity was so great, that when he was bishop of Bath and Wells, having received a fine of 400l., he gave a great part of it to the French Protestants.