WILFORD (GEORGE), bookseller in London; Little Britain, near the Hospital Gate, 1652. His name is found on a pamphlet entitled, Looking Glasse for a Drunkard, 1652 [Hazlitt, H. 171.]
WILKINS (TIMOTHY), bookseller in London; George in Fleet St, 1641. In partnership with John Maynard in the publication of the writings of John Wilkins, Bishop of Chester.
WILLIAMS (JOHN), bookseller in London, (1) Crown, St. Pauls Church Yard, 1636-66; (2) Blue Anchor in Little Britain, 1667. Took up his freedom September 15th, 1634. [Arber, iii. 687.] Paid ten shillings as his proportion of the poll tax in 1641. [Domestic State Papers, Charles I, vol 483 (11).] Joint publisher with F. Eglesfield, q.v. of Herrick's Hesperides, 1648. The John Wilcox, q.v., recorded by Hazlitt is probably intended for John Williams.
WILLIAMS (RICHARD), bookseller at St. Albans in Hertfordshire, 1649-56. Three stationers of this name took up their freedom before 1640. [Arber, iii. 683, 686, 688.] The following pamphlets have his name on the imprint: The Divels Delusions, 1649 [E. 565 (15)]; Bloudy Fight in Hartfordshire, 1649. The name R. Williams is also found on the imprint to a political tract in 1642, entitled Parliaments Declaration concerning the Kings Majesty [E. 108 (44)], but whether he was the same with the St. Albans bookseller is unknown.
WILLIAMS (THOMAS), bookseller in London; Bible in Little Britain, 1662-7. His name is found on the imprint to a pamphlet by John Humfrey, entitled Second Discourse about re-ordination, 1662. [Ames Collection, 3080.] He is mentioned in the Hearth Tax Roll for the half-year ending Lady Day, 1666, as a bookseller in Little Britain. [P.R.O. Lay Subsidy, 25232]. His death is recorded by Smyth in his Obituary, p. 79.
WILLIAMSON (ANTHONY), bookseller (?) in London; Queens Arms neer the West-end of St. Paul's Church Yard, 1651-9. His name occurs on the imprint to the following pamphlet: The Grand Debate concerning Presbytery, 1652. [B.M. 463, h. 4 (2273).]
