TEY (JOHN), bookseller in London; White Lion in the Strand neer the New Exchange, 1650-3. Dealer in plays. T. (J.) Distracted state a Tragedy, 1650. [E. 618 (5).]
THACKERAY (WILLIAM), bookseller in London, (1) Black Spread Eagle and Sun, in the Old Bailey, 1666; (2) Sugar Loaf, Duck Lane, 1666-7. Dealt largely in ballads and theological literature. Was mentioned in the will of Thomas Passinger.
THOMAS (EDWARD), bookseller in London, (1) Green Arbour Court, Old Bailey, 1657; (2) Adam and Eve, Little Britain, 1657-82. Succeeded to the business of Michael Sparke, senr. Mentioned in the Hearth Tax Roll for the half-year ending Lady Day, 1666, as a bookseller in Little Britain. [P.R.O. Lay Subsidy, 25232.]
THOMAS (JOHN), bookseller in London, 1637-44, Took up his freedom September 28th, 1633. [Arber, iii. 687.] The Lord Lowden his learned and wise speech, 1641. [E. 199 (13).] His address has not been found.
THOMAS (MARY), bookseller in London, (?) 1642. Her imprint occurs on a pamphlet entitled Three proclamations, 1642. [E. 154 (18).]
THOMAS (MICHAEL), bookseller in Bristol at his shop in the Polzey, 1664-7. Advertisement for recovery of a watch, in the Newes, July 14th, 1664. He is also mentioned in an information laid by the Mayor of Bristol in 1667, as having received certain treasonable books concerning the Fire of London from Elizabeth Calvert. [Domestic State Papers, Charles II, vol. 209 (75).]
THOMAS (WILLIAM), bookseller (?) in London, 1659. His name occurs on the imprint to a pamphlet entitled Five strange Wonders, 1659. [Hazlitt, ii. 1659.]
THOMASON (GEORGE), bookseller in London; Rose, or Rose and Crown, St. Paul's Churchyard, 1627-66. Thomason will always be remembered as the collector of the literature of the Civil War and Commonwealth periods. Nothing is known as to his antecedents before the record of his
