Religion
- James Thompson (martyr) (died 1582), Catholic priest hanged under Elizabeth I
- Jim Thompson (bishop) (1936–2003), Anglican bishop of Stepney and Bath and Wells
- James Denton Thompson (1856–1924), Bishop of Sodor and Man
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“In the latter part of the seventeenth century, according to the historian of Dunstable, “Towns were directed to erect ‘a cage’ near the meeting-house, and in this all offenders against the sanctity of the Sabbath were confined.” Society has relaxed a little from its strictness, one would say, but I presume that there is not less religion than formerly. If the ligature is found to be loosened in one part, it is only drawn the tighter in another.”
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