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“... at Harvard, they are ‘Puritans’ (though in his preface he blames this on his copy-editor); Stephen Tomkins, who is British, prefers lower case. In America, the name carries more baggage than in England and Scotland, and might mean any English colonist in New England, where industry and piety marched in lockstep. But the use of a ‘P’ still ...”

“... chapter in this volume surveys. Nor do you find more than a fleeting mention of it, as Adam Tomkins points out in his chapter, in Dicey’s revered work on the rule of law. It is only in modern commentaries (and even then not in Tom Bingham’s now classic writings) that the case has come to enjoy a foundational status as the source of what is sometimes ...”

“... had scanned computer images of her body, an X-ray and CAT-scan images of her spine. Interviewed by Stephen Barber and David Clark, the editors of Regarding Sedgwick, she said that she was finding it hard to ‘take pleasure in writing’, and was much more drawn to the visual than the verbal, to texture rather than texts. In her introduction to Touching ...”

“... BSE agent. Phillips took evidence right at the beginning of his Inquiry about the case of Clare Tomkins, who fell ill with vCJD in October 1996. Because of her love of animals she had been a vegetarian since 1985, when she was 13. Diagnoses of depression, anorexia and agoraphobia were entertained during the early part of her illness. She was given ...”

“... him: ‘It is a merye worlde when such as thou arte shall teache us what is the truth.’ Thomas Tomkins, a weaver, was burned after Edmund Bonner, bishop of London, had forcibly shaved off his long evangelist’s beard ‘so he wold loke like a catholike’ even if he wasn’t one, and had held his hand in a candle flame to give him a foretaste of what was ...”