A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Banks (Thomas)

BANKS (THOMAS), bookseller in London, (1) Blackfriars, on the top of Bridewell Stairs; (2) In the Old Bailey, 1641; (3) At the sign of the Seal in Westminster Hall, 1641–49. Took up his freedom on June 26th, 1637. [Arber, iii. 688.] Dealt chiefly in theological and political tracts and broadsides. In 1647 and at other times he had a stall in Westminster Hall, distinguished by the sign of the "Seal," and he was associated with another stall-holder there. Mistress Breach, in the publication of the Rev. John Cotton's Controversie concerning liberty of conscience, 1649. [Library, N.S., October, 1905, pp. 382-3.]