William Thomas

1670 – 1738

William Thomas (1670–1738) was an English clergyman and antiquary. He was educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge, from which he received two degrees. Through the influence of distant relation John Somers, 1st Baron Somers, he was granted the living of Exhall in Warwickshire and later became rector of St Nicholas in Worcester. Thomas received two further degrees in divinity in the 1720s, including a doctorate. As part of his work as an antiquary Thomas visited every church in Worcestershire and transcribed many documents, including the now lost Red Book of Worcester. -Wikipedia

• A Survey of the Cathedral-church of Worcester; With an Account of the Bishops Thereof, From the Foundation of the see, to the Year 1600. Also an Appendix ... By William Thomas,
• Antiquitates Prioratus Majoris Malverne in agro Wicciensi. Cum chartis originalibus easdem illustrantibus, ex registris sedis episcopalis Wigorniensis
• A survey of the cathedral-church of Worcester
• Antiquitates prioratus majoris Malverne in agro Wicciensi. Cum chartis originalibus easdem illustrantibus, ex registris sedis Episcopalis Wigorniensis Nunc primum editis
• The advantages of a good education
• Works of Geoffrey Chaucer