COWLEY (THOMAS), bookseller in London; Greyhound in St. Paul's Churchyard, 1640-70. Took up his freedom March 26th, 1640. [Arber, iii. 688.] His name is found on an edition of Peter du Moulin's Anatomy of the Masse, translated by James Mountaine, and printed by Stephen Bulkley in 1641 in London under the title of The Masse in Latine and English with a Commentary. Of this a copy is in the Bodleian, and the title-page only is preserved among the Ames Collection of title-pages in the British Museum. [No. 1678.] Thomas Cowley died in 1670, and left a legacy of £100 to the poor of the Stationers' Company. [Timperley, p. 546.]
COWPER (THOMAS), (?) bookseller in London, 1638–41. Only known from documents in the State Papers, in which he declared that he had imported large numbers of foreign bibles, prayer books and psalters, which were seized by the Stationers' Company and not returned to him. [Domestic State Papers, vol. 478 (54).] He may be identical with the Thomas Cooper, q.v., described in 1665 as a journeyman bookseller to Richard Royston, whose death is recorded in Smyth's Obituary, p. 67.
CRAGGS (JAMES?), bookseller in London; Next door to the Harp and Ball near Charing Cross, c. 1667. Only known from a letter sent by Lodowick Lloyd to Robert Francis, in which an appointment is made at the above house. [Domestic State Papers, Charles II, vol. 244 (136).]
CRANFORD (JOSEPH), bookseller in London, (1) Phœnix St. Paul's Churchyard near the little north door, 1653; (2) King's Head, Paul's Churchyard, 1658; (3) Castle & Lion in St. Paul's Church Yard, 1659; (4) The Gun, in St. Paul's Church yard, 1661 (1653-64). Dealt chiefly in theological literature. There was another bookseller of the same name with a shop in Norwich in 1659.
CREAKE (THOMAS), bookseller in London, 1642–60. Took up his freedom September 3rd, 1638 [Arber, iii. 688.] Associated with Christopher Latham in the publication of political pamphlets. His address is unknown.
CRIPPS (HENRY), bookseller at Oxford and London, (1) Oxford, 1620–40; (2) London: The first shop in Pope's Head-Alley, next Lombard Street, 1650-61. Very little is known respecting this bookseller. He is found
