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THOMAS
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THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
THOMAS, ST
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THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
THOMAS (16o6-166o) , See also:

ENGLISH

English parliamentarian, a native of See also:

Newcastle-under-Lyme in See also:

STAFFORDSHIRE

Staffordshire, the son of a See also:

BUTCHER

butcher and See also:

mayor of that See also:

TOWN

town, was baptized in 1606. He was placed with an See also:

ATTORNEY (from O. Fr. atorne, a person appointed to act for another, from atourner, legal Lat. attornare, attorn, literally to turn over to another or commit business to another)

attorney of See also:

Clifford's See also:

Inn, but at the beginning of the See also:

war in 1642 he enlisted in See also:

Essex's lifeguards, became See also:

major in See also:

Fleetwood's See also:

REGIMENT (from Late Latin regimentum, rule, regere, to rule, govern, direct)

regiment of See also:

HORSE (a word common to Teutonic languages in such forms as hors, hros, ros; cf. the Ger. ross)

horse under the See also:

EARL

earl of See also:

Manchester, was See also:

PRESENT

present at See also:

Marston See also:

MOOR

Moor, at See also:

NASEBY

Naseby, See also:

LANGPORT

Langport and at the taking of See also:

Winchester and Basing, as well as at the See also:

SIEGE (0. Fr. sege, siege, mod. siege, seat, ultimately from sedere, to sit, cf. Class. Lat. obsidium, a siege)

siege of See also:

Oxford. At Basing Harrison was accused of having killed a prisoner in See also:

COLD (in O. Eng. cald and ceald, a word coming ultimately from a root cognate with the Lat. gelu, gelidus, and common in the Teutonic languages, which usually have two distinct forms for the substantive and the adjective, cf. Ger. Kolte, kalt, Dutch koude

cold See also:

BLOOD

blood. In 1646 he was returned to See also:

PARLIAMENT (Anglo-Lat. parliamentum, Fr. parlement, from parler, to speak)

parliament for See also:

WENDOVER

Wendover, and served in See also:

Ireland in 1647 under See also:

Lord See also:

LISLE, ALICE (c. 1614-1685)

Lisle, returning to See also:

England in May, when he took the See also:

side of the See also:

army in the dispute with the parliament and obtained from See also:

FAIRFAX, EDWARD (c. 1580-1635)

Fairfax a regiment of horse. In See also:

NOVEMBER (Lat. novem, nine)

November he opposed the negotiations with the See also:

king, whom he styled " a See also:

man of blood " to be called to See also:

account, and he declaimed against the See also:

House of Lords. At the surprise of See also:

Lambert's quarters at See also:

APPLEBY

Appleby on the 18th of See also:

JULY

July 1648, in the second See also:

CIVIL

civil war, he distinguished himself by his extraordinary daring and was severely wounded. He showed a See also:

SPECIAL

special zeal in bringing about the trial of the king. See also:

Charles was entrusted to his care on being brought up from See also:

HURST, JOHN FLETCHER (1834-1903)

Hurst See also:

Castle to See also:

LONDON

London, and believed that Harrison intended his assassination, but was at once favourably impressed by his bearing and reassured by his disclaiming any such See also:

DESIGN (Fr. desiin, drawing; Lat. designare, to mark out)

design. Harrison was assiduous in his attendance at the trial, and signed the See also:

DEATH

death-See also:

WARRANT (Med. Lat. warantum; O. Fr. garant, warant, derived from O.H.G. root represented in modern German bygewdhren)

warrant with the fullest conviction that it was his See also:

DUTY (from " due," that which is owing, O. Fr. deu, dil, past participle of devoir; Lat. debere, debitum; cf. " debt ")

duty. He took See also:

PART

part in sup-pressing the royalist rising in the midlands in May 1649, and in July was appointed to the See also:

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief command in See also:

South See also:

WALES (Cymru, Gwalia, Cambria)

Wales, where he is said to have exercised his See also:

POWERS, HIRAM (1805-1873)

powers with exceptional severity. On the loth of See also:

FEBRUARY

February 1651 he became a member of the See also:

COUNCIL (Lat. concilium, from cum, together, and the root cal, to call)

council of See also:

state, and during See also:

Cromwell's See also:

ABSENCE (Lat. absentia)

absence in See also:

Scotland held the supreme military command in England. He failed in stopping the See also:

march of the royalists into England at See also:

KNUTSFORD

Knutsford on the 16th of See also:

AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

August 1651, but after the See also:

BATTLE

battle of See also:

Worcester he rendered See also:

GREAT

great service in pursuing and capturing the fugitives.

Later he pressed on Cromwell the See also:

NECESSITY (Lat. necessitas)

necessity of dismissing the See also:

Long Parliament, and it was he who at Cromwell's bidding, on the 20th of See also:

APRIL

April 16J3, laid hands on See also:

SPEAKER

Speaker See also:

LENTHALL, WILLIAM (1591-1662)

Lenthall and compelled him to vacate the See also:

CHAIR (in. Mid. Eng. chcere, through O. Fr. chaire or chaiere, from Lat. cathedra, later caledra, Gr. xaOi3pa, seat, cf. "cathedral"; the modern Fr. form chaise, a chair, has been adopted in English with a particular meaning as a form of carriage; chaire

chair. He was See also:

PRESIDENT (Fr. president, from Lat. praesidens, post-Augustan Lat. for praeses, director, ruler, from praesidere, to sit in front of, preside)

president of the council of thirteen which now exercised authority, and his See also:

IDEA (Gr. Ibia, connected with i&eiv, to see; cf. Lat. species from specere, to look at)

idea of See also:

government appears to have been an See also:

ASSEMBLY, UNLAWFUL

assembly nominated by the congregations, on a strictly religious basis, such as Barebone's Parliament which now assembled, of which he was a member and a ruling spirit. Harrison belonged to the See also:

FACTION (through the French, from Lat. factio, a company of persons combined for action, facere, to do; from the other French derivative facon comes " fashion ")

faction of Fifth See also:

MONARCHY (Fr. monarchic, from Lat. monarchia, Gr. uovapXia, rule of one, µbvos, alone, apXi7, rule)

Monarchy men, whose See also:

POLITICAL

political ideals were entirely destroyed by Cromwell's See also:

ASSUMPTION, FEAST OF

assumption of the See also:

PROTECTORATE

protectorate. He went immediately into violent opposition, was deprived of his See also:

COMMISSION (from Lat. commissio, committere)

commission on the 22nd of See also:

DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December 16J3, and on the 3rd of February 1654 was ordered to confine himself to his See also:

FATHER

father's house in Staffordshire. Suspected of complicity in the plots of the See also:

ANABAPTISTS (" re-baptizers," from Gr. apa and J3airri tt')

anabaptists, he was imprisoned for a See also:

SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short See also:

time in See also:

SEPTEMBER (Lat. septem, seven)

September, and on that occasion was sent for by Cromwell, who endeavoured in a friendly manner to persuade him to desist. He, however, incurred the suspicions of the See also:

ADMINISTRATION (Lat. administrare, to serve)

Administration afresh, and on the 15th of February 1655 he wasimprisoned in See also:

CARISBROOKE

Carisbrooke Castle, being liberated in March 1656 when he took up his See also:

RESIDENCE (Latin residere, to remain behind, to dwell, reside)

residence at See also:

HIGHGATE

Highgate with his See also:

FAMILY

family. I] April 1657 he was arrested for supposed complicity in Venner' See also:

CONSPIRACY (from Lat. conspirare, literally to breathe together, to agree, combine, and especially to form a secret plot)

conspiracy, and again once more in February 1658, when he wa imprisoned in the See also:

TOWER (Lat. turris; Fr. tour, clocker; Ital. torre; Ger. Thurm)

Tower. At the Restoration, Harrison, wh( was excepted from the See also:

ACT (Lat. actus, actum)

Act of See also:

INDEMNITY (through Fr. indemnite, Lat. indemnis, free from damage or loss; in-, negative, and damnum, loss)

Indemnity, refused to take an) steps to See also:

SAVE, or SAVA (Ger. Sau; Hungarian Szdva; Lat. Savus)

save his See also:

LIFE

life, to give any undertaking not to conspirf against the government or to flee. " Being so clear in the thing,' he declared, " I durst not turn my back nor step a See also:

FOOT

foot out o. the way by See also:

REASON (Lat. ratio, through French raison)

reason I had been engaged in the service of so glorious and great a See also:

God." He was arrested in Staffordshire in May 166( and brought to trial on the rrth of See also:

OCTOBER

October. He made a See also:

MARL (from O. Fr. marle, Late Lat. margila, dim. of marga; cf. Du. and Ger. Mergel)

marl) and straightforward See also:

defence, See also:

PLEADING (Fr. plaider, plaidoyer)

pleading the authority of parlia ment and adding, " May be I might be a little mistaken, but l did it all according to the best of my understanding, desiring tc make the revealed will of God in His See also:

HOLY

holy scriptures a See also:

GUIDE (in Mid. Eng. gyde, from the Fr. guide; the earlier French form was guie, English " guy," the d was due to the Italian form guida; the ultimate origin is probably Teutonic, the word being connected with the base seen in O. Eng. witan, to know)

guide tc me." At his See also:

EXECUTION (from Lat. ex-sequor, exsecutus, follow or carry out)

execution, which took See also:

PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place at Charing See also:

CROSS

Cross on the 13th of October 1660, he behaved with great fortitude. See also:

Richard See also:

Baxter, who was acquainted with him, describe: Harrison as " a man of excellent natural parts for affectior and See also:

ORATORY (Lat. oratorio, sc. ors; from orare, to speak or pray)

oratory, but not well seen in the principles of his See also:

religion of a sanguine complexion, naturally of such a vivacity, hilarit) and alacrity as another man hath when he hath drunken a cur too much, but naturally also so far from humble thoughts of himself that it was his ruin." Cromwell also complained of hi; excessive eagerness. " Harrison is an honest man and aims at See also:

GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good things, yet from the impatience of his spirit will not wail the Lord's leisure but hurries me on to that which he and al. honest men will have cause to repent." Harrison was ar eloquent and fluent expounder of the scriptures, and his " See also:

rap. tures" on the See also:

field of victory are recorded by Baxter.

He was of the chief of those " fiery See also:

SPIRITS

spirits " whose ardent and emotiona: religion inspired their political See also:

ACTION

action, and who did wonder; during the See also:

period of struggle and combat, but who later, in the more sober and difficult See also:

SPHERE (Gr. vclsa?pa, a ball or globe)

sphere of constructive statesmanship; showed themselves perfectly incapable. Harrison married about 1648 Katherine, daughter and heiress of See also:

RALPH (d. 1122)

Ralph Harrison of Highgate in See also:

Middlesex, by whom he had several See also:

CHILDREN, LAW RELATING TO

children, all of whom, however, appear to have died in See also:

INFANCY

infancy. See the See also:

ARTICLE (from Lat. articulus, a joint)

article on Harrison by C. H. See also:

Firth in the Dict. of Nat. Biog.; Life of Harrison by C. H. Simpkinson (1905); Notes and Queries, 9 See also:

SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series, xi. 211.

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