WATKIS (), bookseller in Shrewsbury, 1663. Mentioned in an advertisement of patent medicines in the news-sheets of this year.
WATSON (HUMPHREY), bookseller (?) in London (?) 1642. His name occurs on the imprint to a pamphlet entitled A True Relation of Two Merchants of London … Printed for Humphrey Watson, 1642. [Hazlitt, iii. 145.]
WATSON (JOSEPH), (?) bookseller in London, 1642. His name is found on the imprints to the following pamphlets: Parliaments last order and determination for the safety and security of Hull, 1642 [B.M. E. 108 (10)]; Portsmouth. New discovery of a design of the French, 1642. [Hazlitt, ii. 489.]
WATSON (WILLIAM), bookseller (?) in London (?), 1641. His name is found on the imprint to a pamphlet entitled Resolution of the Women of London, 1641. 4o. [Hazlitt, i. 262.] A stationer of this name took up his freedom July 25th, 1624. [Arber, iii. 685.]
WAYTE (THOMAS), bookseller at York; The Pavement, 1653-95. Joined the Quakers about 1651, and acted as local agent for Friends' publications. Several tracts, all dated 1653, written by George Fox, Richard Farnsworth, James Nayler and William Tomlinson, have the imprint: "Printed for Tho. Wayte at his house in the Pavement in York," or "Printed for Thos. and are to be sold at his house, etc." Wayte's name occurs in a list of "dispersers of Quaker books," drawn up in 1664. He married the sister of Richard Smith, a tanner of York, and his house became a noted meeting place for Friends. Thomas Wayte died in 1695, six years after his wife. [The First Publishers of Truth, p. 318 n.]
WEBB (CHARLES), bookseller in London; Golden Boar's Head, St. Paul's Churchyard, 1658-60. Publisher of miscellaneous literature, including plays.
WEBB (DANIEL), bookseller (?) in London, 1660. His name occurs on the imprint to a pamphlet entitled Brethren in Iniquity, 1660. 4o. [Hazlitt, iii. 23.]
