Thomas Paine (fl. 1630 – 1650?)

Identifiers

  • Grubstreet: 22561

Occupations

  • Printer

Names

  • Thomas Paine
  • Thomas Payne

Thomas Payne or Paine, printer in Goldsmith Alley in Redcross Street, Cripplegate, 1630–50 (?).

A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667, by Henry Plomer (1907)

PAYNE, or PAINE (THOMAS), printer in London; In Goold-Smiths Alley in Redcross Street [Cripplegate], 1630–50 (?). Took up his freedom March 3rd, 1628. [Arber, iii. 686.] During the Commonwealth he was employed by the Council of State, which on September 19th, 1650, ordered twenty pounds to be given to him "as a gratuity for his sufferings by printing a book for the cause of Parliament, written by Mr. Walker." The Mr. Walker referred to was doubtless Clement Walker, the author of the History of Independency, but it was clearly not that book for which the printer was paid, and no further light can be thrown on the passage. [Domestic State Papers, Interr. 10, pp. 27–30.]