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Laurens County: a county in Georgia, USA; founded (or so Joyce thought) by the Dubliner Peter Sawyer on the river Oconee. Its motto: Doubling all the time. (cf. also Joyce's letter, 15 November 1926, to Harriet Shaw Weaver)

Saint Lawrence: the adopted name of Sir Amory Tristram, after the third-century martyr, whose feast day falls on 10 August, the supposed day of the Battle of Evora (in 1177 CE), in which Amory Tristram conquered Howth
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Saint Laurence O'Toole: the patron saint of Dublin (1128-1180), a contemporary of Amory Tristram; contrasted in FW with St Thomas à Becket

Saint Laurence of Canterbury: (died 3 February 619) was the second Archbishop of Canterbury
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Saint Lawrence: Spanish martyr and one of the seven deacons of Rome, where he was martyred in 258
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Laurence Sterne: (1713-1768) an Irish-born English novelist and an Anglican clergyman, author of The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman.
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Laurens County: there is also a Laurens County in South Carolina. Both counties are twins
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 * '''Laurens County:''' a county in Georgia, USA; founded (or so Joyce thought) by the [[Dublin|Dubliner]] Peter [[Sawyer]] on the river [[Oconee]]. Its motto: [[doublin|Doubling]] all the time. (cf. also Joyce's letter, 15 November 1926, to [[Harriet Shaw Weaver]])
 ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&id=JoyceColl.MinkGazetteer&entity=JoyceColl.MinkGazetteer.p0424&isize=L&q1=Laurens A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer]
-** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl.GlasheenFinnegans.p0249&isize=XL Third Census of Finnegans Wake]
+** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&id=JoyceColl.GlasheenFinnegans&entity=JoyceColl.GlasheenFinnegans.p0249&isize=L&q1=Lawrence Third Census of Finnegans Wake]
 ** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurens_County%2C_Georgia Wikipedia]
 ** [http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=104906204603482351224.00044dd3c29086b77cf0f&ll=32.6625,-82.875366&spn=1.02663,1.702881&t=p&z=9 Google Maps]