THOMAS (1635?-1715).-Theologian and writer on cosmogony, was _b._ at Croft near Darlington, and _ed._ at Camb., and became Master of Charterhouse and Clerk of the Closet to William III. His literary fame rests on his _Telluris Theoria Sacra, or Sacred Theory of the Earth_, _pub._ about 1692, first in Latin and afterwards in English, a work whi