Catharine was buried on 12 December 1646 in the South aisle of St. Dunstan's church, Fleet Street. Thomason never remarried, and his will of 1664 spoke of his "late dear and only wife."
There are no surviving portraits or other illustrations of the bookseller. However, in a note written in May 1660, he refers to himself as one of the ten "most grave, tall, & comely personages, well horsed and in their best array, or furniture of velvet plush or sattin & Chaine of Gold" attending the Lord Mayor's reception for the restored King Charles II.
There is contradictory evidence concerning Thomason's early career as a bookseller and regarding his relationships with his former master and various other members of the trade. Thomason's name begins to appear in the Stationers' Register as a copyright owner in November 1627, and he appears to have been in partnership with Octavian Pulleyn, although under Fetherstone's sign of the Rose, from 1637 until 1643. The partnership was dissolved in 1643, and the premises were apparently retained by Pulleyn. In the same year Thomason moved and became the sole owner of a new establishment, with the sign of the Rose and Crown, in St.
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