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Tom a Lincoln is a romance by the English writer Richard Johnson, published in two parts in 1599 and 1607. The principal character, Tom, is a bastard son of King Arthur and a girl named Angellica. He is the father of two other important characters, the Black Knight and the Faerie Knight.

The style has been characterized as euphuistic romance.

Plot

Part I begins with the story of Tom's birth: he is the product of an illicit affair between King Arthur and Angellica, the Lord Mayor of London (Earl of London)'s daughter.