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

by Henry Robert Plomer

LEACH (THOMAS), printer in London; Falcon in Shoe-Lane, Fleet Street, 1658-69. Possibly a son of Francis Leach, q.v. Some time in 1662 he was arrested at the instance of Sir John Birkenhead for printing seditious literature "with a base stollen edition of poor Hudibras." [Domestic State Papers, Charles II, vol. 49 (19); vol. 67 (30) and (161); vol. 89 (87).] In the Survey taken on July 29th, 1668, he is returned as having "one press and no more, provided by Mr. Graydon, and 1 workman." [Plomer, Short History, p. 227.]