he had great difficulty in getting the money. In 1651 he was imprisoned for seven weeks in consequence of his complicity in the Love conspiracy, but was released on giving bail for £1,000. George Thomason died on April 10th, 1666, and Smyth in his Obituary, p. 71, adds "buried out of Stationers Hall (a poore man)." His will was proved on the 27th April. By this it appears that he had four sons, George, Edward, Henry, and Thomas, living at the time of his death. Negotiations were then on foot for the sale of his collection of pamphlets, which he bequeathed to Dr. Thomas Barlowe, Provost of Queen's College, Oxford, Thomas Lockey, principal librarian of the "public library," at Oxford, and John Rushworth, of Lincoln's Inn, in trust for the benefit of his three children, Edward, Henry and Thomas, but by a codicil he directed that the sum obtained for them, which he anticipated would be Twelve Hundred Pounds or more, was to be divided equally between his daughter Grace and his son Thomas. [D.N.B.; Bibliographica, vol. 3, pp. 291-308; Information kindly supplied by Mr. G. K. Fortescue; P.C.C. 64 Mico.]
THOMASON (HENRY), bookseller in London; Rose and Crown St. Pauls Church yard, 1663-7. Son of the preceding. Sometimes used as a device a copperplate showing a rose crowned.
THOMPSON (GEORGE), bookseller in London; White Horse in Chancery Lane, over against Lincolns Inn [Gate], 1642-60. Dealt in political pamphlets, broadsides and law books.
THOMPSON (JAMES), bookseller in London, 1642-50. Published the following: Treason discovered from Holland … London, Printed for J. Thompson, 1642. [Hazlitt, ii. 692]; Manual of Godly Prayers, 1650. [Hazlitt, ii. 494.] His address has not been found.
THOMPSON (JOHN), the elder, bookseller in London, 1641. Mentioned in a list of stationers who had paid their proportion of the poll tax in 1641. [Domestic State Papers, Charles I, vol. 483 (11).]
THOMPSON or THOMASON (JOHN), (?) the younger, bookseller (?) in London, 1660. Proceedings, Votes, Resolves and Acts of the late half quarter Parliament, called the Rump, 1660. [Hazlitt, ii. 525.] His address has not been found.
