A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Jordan (Tobias)

by Henry Robert Plomer

JORDAN (TOBIAS), bookseller in Gloucester, 1644-64. Sheriff of Gloucester in 1644 and Mayor in 1659. [Bibl. Glouc, pp. liii, clvi.] His name is found on a broadside entitled A Perfect and most useful table to compute the year of our Lord, 1656, which was to be sold in London at the shop of Master Michell in Westminster Hall. [B.M. 669, f. 20 (32).] On September 13th, 1664, a warrant was issued to certain Aldermen of Gloucester to search his house for seditious books and papers. [Domestic State Papers, Charles II, vol 102, 51.]