A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Holmer (Thomas)
HOLMER (THOMAS), printer in London, 1641. In the Commons Journals (vol. ii., p. 160), under date May 27th, 1641, is an order that Thomas Holmer, who was committed to the Gatehouse for printing an Elegy upon the Earl of Strafford, which was considered to be scandalous, should be admitted to bail. No master printer of this name is known, and Holmer was probably a journeyman. There are two broadsides in the British Museum of this date with the imprint. Printed in the year 1641. The first, entitled The Earl of Strafford his Ellegaick Poem as it was pen'd by his owne hand a little before his death, and the second Verses lately written by Thomas Earle of Strafford. [C. 20, f. 2 (6) (7).] It was perhaps the first of these that was referred to in the order.