Thomas Moore (fl. 1677 – ca. 1724)
Timeline
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Thomas Moore born
Thomas Moore, son of John and Jane Moore, baptized at Saint Botolph Bishopsgate.
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over against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet street
Moore, or More (Thomas), bookseller in London, Maidenhead, over against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet street.—Plomer
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publishes John Wallis's Defence of the Royal Society
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enters several works in the Stationers' register
Master
Thomas Moore24 January 1683
Entred for his coppy under the hand of Master Warden Hills a booke or coppy entituled Short dull remarks upon ye long dull essay upon poetry
vjd
Master
Tho. Moore12 March 1683
Entred ... booke or coppy entituled A true narrative of the Popish Plott in Ireland ... ... vjd
[signed] Tho: Moore
Witnesse, Mart Newton.
Master
Tho. Moore23 April 1683
Entred ... booke or coppy entituled Religious villany, an elligie on the execrable murder of King Charles ye 1st ... ... vjd
[signed] Tho: Moore
[Witness] M. N.
Master
Tho. Moore8 May 1683
Entred ... booke or coppy entituled A new song between Wigg and Tory To the tune, Some say the papist had a plott ... vjd
[signed.] Tho: Moore
Witn: Martin Newton.
Master
Tho. Moore22 May 1683
Entred ... booke or coppy entituled A word of patience to the rioters on their being found in Guildhall ... ... vjd
[signed] Tho: Moore
Witnesse. Mart: Newton.
—A Transcript of the Registers of the Worshipful Company of Stationers from 1640–1708 A.D., ed. G.E. Briscoe Eyre, pp. p. 122, 136, 149, 153, 157
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defendant in suit for recovery of £300
Moore is defendant in a suit brought by Anthony Trethway in the Court of Common Pleas for the recovery of £300. [C.P.R., Hil. 35/6, Chas. II, 1683–4, Roll 3020, m. 352 verso.]—Plomer
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takes on apprentice Henry Pointing
"This Indenture witnesseth, That Henry Pointing sonne of Ralph Pointing of Eperthridg (?) in the County of Somersett Husbandman doth put himself Apprentice to Thomas Moore Citizen & Statoner of London and with him to serve from the day of the Date hereof, untill the full end and term of seven years from thence, next ensuing, and fully to be complete and ended. During which said term, the said Apprentice his said Master faithfully shall serve ... And the said Master his said Apprentice in the Art and trade of a Printer and Stac̅oner shall teach and instruct" from the 9th day of June 1684. Signed by Tho Theed, Nath. Gifford, and Henry Pointing. —London Metropolitan Archive COL/CHD/FR/02/0077-0082 (Michael Treadwell Research Notes: "[printed indenture — blank (i.e. not Stationers)]"
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granted £50 loan from Tyler bequest
Thomas Moore granted a £50 loan from the Tyler bequest. His sureties confirmed 1 September 1684.—Treadwell
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at the Bell Savage
"SH 1686: Tho. Moore, Bell Savage — 2 [presses]"—Treadwell
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in Whitefriars
Moore's premises described in imprints as in Whitefriars, near the Bolt and Tun Inn, and in Dogwell Court.
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in partnership with John Heptinstall
Moore, "with the help perhaps of Heptinstall, made a great advance in musical typography by the invention of 'the new tied note,' by which the tails of quavers and semiquavers were united, as in modern music. He also made round heads to the notes instead of the old lozenge shape. The earliest book I have found having the tied note is the second book of Comes Amoris, or The Companion of Love, being a choice collection of the newest songs now in use, folio 1688. This was printed by T. Moore for John Carr and Sam Scott. The third book, 1689, was printed by Moore and Heptinstall, the fourth, 1693, and fifth 1694, by Heptinstall alone."—Frank Kidson, "Handel's Publisher, John Walsh, His Successors, and Contemporaries," The Musical Quarterly 6.3 (July 1920): 437
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£50 loan bond put in suit for printing the Old Primer without licence
"'Upon informacion That Thomas Moore hath printed the Companies Coppy called the Old Primer without their Lycence Ordered That his bond for 50l. Lone be forthwith put in suite against him and his sureties.' Robert Stephens was to be paid £3 for the discovery of Moore's printing the primer. / SC F f. 132v"—Donald Francis McKenzie, Maureen Bell, A Chronology and Calendar of Documents Relating to the London Book Trade (OUP, 2005), 83
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fined £5 for binding an apprentice by foreign indenture
"'Thomas Moore a Printer was at this Court Fined Five pounds for Binding an Apprentice by Foreigne Indentures.' / SCF f. 202"—McKenzie and Bell, 166
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Moore's apprentice refused his freedom
"Henry Pointing, who had served Thomas Moore for seven years, was refused the freedom since he had been bound 'by a Forreigne Indenture at a Scriveners'. / SC F f. 203 / [Pointing was admitted on his petition, seconded by other workment, 9 May 1694: SC F f. 204v.]"—McKenzie and Bell, 169
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in Blackfriars
Imprints during this period (3 in ESTC) bear the address "printed by Tho. Moore in Black-Fryers."
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Moore to give new securities for £50 Tyler loan
Mr. Moore who has £50 Tyler loan is to give new securities, the old securities being dead.—Treadwell
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elected on livery of the Company of Stationers
Tho Moore appr to George Minnikin [a Barber Surgeon] took freedom & being elected on livery accepted & agreed to pay £10 at 6 & £10 at 12 months [Note in Regs on its being out of order]—Treadwell
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admitted into the freedom of the City by redemption
"Upon the humble Petition of Thomas Moore and the Reports of Sir Richard Levett Knt. and Alderman, that he hath a Right to his freedoms of this Citty by Service in the Company of Barber Surgeons, but being by Trade a Stationer, desires to be admitted into the Company of Stationers, It is therefore ordered that the said Thomas Moore shall be admitted into the freedoms of this Citty by Redemption in the Company of Stationers Paying to Mr. Chamberlaine to the Citie’s use forty six shillings and eight pence."—Freedom of the City Admission Papers, London Metropolitan Archives COL/CHD/FR/02/0129-0134
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baptism of son Thomas
"Thomas, Son of Thomas and Susanna Moor" baptized 13 August, 1700, at St. Ann Blackfriars.—London Church of England Parish Registers, London Metropolitan Archives P69/Ann/A/001/Ms04508/001
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in Southwark
Imprints bear the address "near St. George's church in Southwark" from 1703–9.
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burial of George Minnikin, Stationer
"George Minnikin Stationer in St. Martins" buried, parish of St. Anne and St. Agnes, City of London.—London Church of England Parish Registers, London Metropolitan Archives Clc/478/Ms03701/033
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probation of the will of George Minnikin
From the will of Georgij [George] Minnikin, of the parish of St. Anne and Agnes in St. Martins Le Grand: "I give and bequeath unto my dearly beloved Daughter Jane Moore the wife of Thomas Moore Stationer the Sum̄e of twenty pounds of lawfull money of England to buy her mourning to attend my funerall Hons."—Records of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, in the National Archives, Kew, Surrey, Series PROB 11; Class: PROB 11; Piece: 479
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Dunton comments on Moore's debts
"Mr. Moore—Was one of those good natur'd Printers, that work'ed 'emselves into Debt; so that had his Business been less, he'd ha' kept his Legs the longer; however, I believe him a very honest mistaken Man; and if he's yet living, I'll Drink his Health."—John Dunton, The Life and Errors of John Dunton, Late Citizen of London (London, 1705), 333–4
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death of wife Susana
Burial of "Susana wife of Thomas Moore at Black Bull in the Rules a Printer."—London Church of England Parish Registers, London Metropolitan Archives P92/GEO/143
The Rules of the King's Bench was an area of several square miles around the King’s Bench prison in Southwark where debtors were permitted to live and conduct their trades outside the prison.
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near the Mint in Southwark
"Mr. Moor, near the Mint in Southwark (Those who print Pamphlets, Ballads etc.)"—Treadwell
This must be at or near the same location as "near St. George's church."
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recorded by Negus as a "high flyer" in Southwark
"Moor, Southwark"— A Compleat and Private List of all the Printing-houses in and about the Cities of London and Westminster, &c. (1724), in Nichols' Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century (1812)