In this letter from the English Civil War, what does THO stand for?
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Following the citation in Wikipedia to the book in google books the signature there (page 480) is presented as "Tho. Fairfax" not "THO: FAIRAX".
"Tho." is the standard abbreviation of "Thomas", the first name of writer of the letter, as suggested in the comments by @jamesqf
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