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He flourished in the yere after the Incarnation, 390. Maximus being then King of Britaine. Eleemosynis intentus priuilegia ecclesiarum, sicut pater statuerat, roborauit; et trans mare Romam, et ad sanctum Thomam in Indiam multa munera misit.
The third Tom Thumb he places under the Reign of King Arthur; to which third Tom Thumb, says he, the Actions of the other two were attributed. Now, tho' I know that this Opinion is supported by an Assertion of Justus Lipsius, Thomam ilium Thumbum non alium quam Herculem fuisse satis constat; yet shall I venture to oppose one Line of Mr. Midwinter, against them all,
Thomas Warton's very able Inquiry appeared about three months afterwards; and Mr. Pr. and Med. p. 207. He addressed to him an Ode in Latin, entitled Ad Thomam Laurence, medicum doctissimum, quum filium peregre agentem desiderio nimis tristi prosequeretur. Works, i. 165. Mr. Holder, in the Strand, Dr. Johnson's apothecary. 'Johnson should rather have written "imperatum est."
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