A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Walker (Henry)
WALKER (HENRY), bookseller in London, 1641-2. Better known as Walker the Ironmonger. John Taylor, the water poet, wrote a biography of him in 1642, in which he declared that Walker was apprenticed to an ironmonger, and for some years followed that trade, but eventually gave it up to become a bookseller and writer of pamphlets, of which he published as many as four or five hundred thousand copies. Amongst these was one entitled To your tents, O Israel! a copy of which he flung into the King's carriage. For this he and the printer were sent to the King's Bench Prison in Southwark, but were subsequently rescued by the mob when on their way to Newgate. After a long hue and cry Walker was recaptured and sent to the Tower. He then made submission. [The Whole Life and Progress of Henry Walker the Ironmonger … Collected and written by John Taylor, 1642. 12th July. [E. 154 (29).]