THOMPSON (NATHANIEL), printer in Dublin, 1666. Printed an edition of T. Bladen's Praxis Francisci Clarke, 1666. [Ames Collection, 3272.] Some interesting notes about him at a later period will be found in the Hist. MSS. Comm. Report 9, app., pp. 69-79.
THOMPSON (THOMAS), bookseller (?) in London, 1642. Took up his freedom July 6th, 1635. [Arber, iii. 687.] His name is found on the imprint to several political pamphlets in 1642. [Hazlitt, 207, 525.]
THOMPSON (SAMUEL), bookseller in London, (1) White Horse, St. Paul's Churchyard; (2) Bishop's Head in Duck Lane, 1664—8. Shared with Humphrey Robinson, q.v., Richard Thrale, q.v., and Joshua Kirton, q.v., the copyrights of Thomas Whitaker, numbering 109 works. His death is thus recorded by Smyth in his Obituary p. 79, "Octr. 26th, 1668. Die Lunæ hora 12 sub nocte, Sam Thompson, bookseller in Duck Lane obit, a good husband and industrious man in his profession." In his will, which was proved on November 9th, 1668, he refers to his late losses in the fireing of London, and to the doubtful value of his stock. His son John was a student at Oxford, and Samuel Gellibrand, q.v., was appointed sole executor. [P.C.C. 146, Hene.]
THORN (EDMUND), bookseller in Oxford, 1652-63. Publisher of Clement Barksdale's Noctes Hibernæ, 1652.
THORNICROFT, or THORNYCROFT (THOMAS), bookseller in London, (1) Eagle and Child, St. Paul's Churchyard; (3) Eagle and Child, near Worcester House in the Strand. 1663-7. His second address is found in Paul Festeau's New and easie French Grammar, 1667. [Eman. Coll. Camb.]
THORPE (WILLIAM), bookseller in Chester, (1) Hand and Bible near the High Crosse; (2) Stationer's Arms in Watergate Street, 1664. A fragment in the Ames Collection (473 h 1, 121) is a portion of an engraved sheet. At the top are three shields, one of them bearing the arms of the Stationers' Company. Between the two uppermost is the date 1664. Below them is a Bible and Hand and the letters W. T., and beneath this the imprint:— "Printed for William Thorpp Bookseller in the City of Chester, and are to be sould by him there, at his shop at the hand and Bible neere the high Crosse, and at the Stationers Armes in the Watergate Street, where alsoe Books both new and old are to bee bound and sold."
