WILLIAMSON (ROBERT), bookseller (?) in London, 1648-9. His name is found on the imprint to the following amongst other political pamphlets: Great fight at Chepstow Castle, 1648. [E. 443, 14.]
WILMOT (JOHN), bookseller in Oxford, 1657-65. [Madan, Chart of Oxford Printing, pp. 29, 31.] His name is found on the imprint to Adrian Heereboord's Philosophia naturalis, 1665. [Ames Collection, 3237.]
WILSON (ANDRO), bookseller in Edinburgh, (1) Near the Ladies Steps, 1641; (2) At the Plain Stones over against the Stone Shop at the signe of the Great Book, 1649; (3) At the sign of the Bible, 1649 (1641-54. [H. G. Aldis, List of Books, p. 124.]
WILSON (HENRY), bookseller (?) in London, 1642. His name is found on the imprint to a political pamphlet entitled The Virgins Complaint [Jan. 31], 1642. [See Hazlitt, i. 440.]
WILSON (PATRICK), bookseller at Edinburgh, 1643. Issued a broadside entitled A merrie Ballad, called Christio Kirk on the Green [25 Nov.], 1643. [669, f. 8, 38.]
WILSON (ROBERT), bookseller in London; Black Spread Eagle and Windmill, St. Martins le Grand, near Aldersgate, 1660 (?)-62 (?). A dealer in Quaker literature. In a letter to Richard Snead, mercer, of Bristol, written in 1661, he says: "I am exposed in this day through many and frequent sufferings to severall difficulties: for very often am I plundered by ye rulers of my goods; burning them at home and abroad." [Domestic State Papers, Charles II, vol. 56, 83.] The same year he was committed to the Gatehouse for selling "seditious pamphlets against the Government of the Church of England A list of books seized at his shop in that year was published in Mercurius Publicus on November 28th.
WILSON (THOMAS), printer in London; Three Foxes in Long Lane [Smithfield], 1653-7. Joint printer with John Crouch, of the news-sheet called Mercurius Democritus. Their printing house was situated in one of the lowest parts of the City of London, and they were largely employed in printing ballads, broadsides, chap books, and such ephemeral literature.
