Thomas Hodgkin (fl. 1677–1713)

HODGKIN (THOMAS), printer and bookseller in London, next door to the Dolphin Inn, West Smithfield, 1677–1713. This printer is first met with in the proceedings taken by the House of Lords in February 1676–7 to discover the printers and vendors of certain libellous pamphlets. Hodgkin was called before the Committee as a witness in regard to the tract entitled Some Considerations upon the question whether the Parliament is dissolved by its Prorogation for fifteen months, but all he could say was that he had been unable to find out who printed it. He was probably only a workman at that time. [Hist. MSS. Comm., 9th Report, App., pp. 69–78.] In 1686 his name appears as a bookseller, when he sold the Thirty-six Sermons of the Bishop of Lincoln. [T.C. n. 191.] In 1688 he is recorded as the printer of an edition of Suetonius. [T.C. II. 230.] He was also the printer in 1690 of the seventeenth edition of Chamberlayne's Angliae Notitia, and continued in business until after 1713, when he contributed to the Bowyer relief fund.