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Where did Thomas live during his years of campaigning?

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Where did Thomas live during his years of campaigning?

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After leaving Cambridge, Thomas seems to have spent the summer and autumn of 1785 working in Wisbech with his brother, translating and expanding his essay. In 1786 when he first committed himself to the cause, Thomas took lodgings at the Baptist Head Coffee House in Chancery Lane, he would be near his new friend and fellow campaigner Richard Phillips whose chamber was in Lincoln’s Inn. Thomas also returned to Wisbech in November 1787 to write his ‘Impolicy’ Whilst collecting evidence in cities and towns around the country, including Liverpool, Bristol, Bridgewater, Monmouth, Gloucester, Worcester and Chester, Thomas stayed in the houses of Quakers. In 1794 went to the Lake District to stay with a Quaker friend Thomas Wilkinson at Yanwath, near Penrith and recover from exhaustion when he fell in love with the place. He used all of his capital to purchase a 34 acre estate, from which 14 acres would be leased and on which he had a right of common to procure stone and slate and there was w

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