"THOMAS, Boston, a lawyer from one of the Inns of Court. at London, came 1637, left here, aft. vain attempt to earn bread, and being ar co. 1640, in the same sh. with Hugh Peter, Thomas Welde, and John Winthrop, the younger. He got his book thro. the press almost two yrs. bef. Welde's, and Cotton says he d. shortly aft. its pub. I think he design. this as evid. of the displeasure of heaven; but the date may be adm. however erron. the construct. of it."