RATHBAND-CRISP. 471 gentleman, he exercised his 'ministry at Belcham in Nor- thumberland, for about a year ; and from thence he re- moved to Ovingham, in the same county, where he preached about a year; till, being silenced there, he retired into a private family.". The epistle to the reader, prefixed to Mr. Ball's a Answer to two Treatises of Mr. John Canne's," published in 1642, is subscribed by Mr. Rath- band, together with several of his brethren ; therefore, he was probably living at that period. He had two sons in the ministry, one of whom was a puritan of considerable, emi- nence; who, during the civil wars, and upon the reduction of York by the parliament's forces, was constituted one of the four preachers maintained by the state in that city with honourable stipends. After some time, he removed from this situation, when he was succeeded by Mr. Peter Williams.+ His other son, the above Mr. William Rath- band, was one of the silenced nonconformists in 16624 TOBIAS CRISP, D. D.-This zealous minister was born in Bread-street, London, in the year 1600, and educated first at Eton school, then in the university of Cambridge, and afterwards at Oxford, where he was incorporated member of Baliol college, in 1626. He was descended from a most wealthy family. His father was Ellis Crisp, a rich merchant, and sometimes alderman and sheriffof the city of London. Sir Nicholas Crispwas his elder brother. In the year 1627 he became rector of Brinkworth in Wilt- shire, and in a few years after took his doctor's degree. He continued at Brinkworth till the commencement of the civil wars, and was much followed for his edifying way of preaching, and his great hospitality to all persons who re- sorted to his house.t His doctrine being spiritual, evangeli- cal, and particularly suited to the case ofawakened sinners, greatly promoted their peace and comfort; and his method being plain, familiar, and easy to'be understood by persons of the meanest capacity, was particularly adapted to the conditionof his hearers. And, as he had a plentifulestate ofhis own, he was uncommonly liberal and hospitable to strangers who came from a distance to attend upon his ministry ; and, accordingto the informationofsome of his Baxter's Second Plea, p. 193. + Calamy's Account, vol. ii. p. 779. Palmer's Noncon. Mem.vol. ii. p. 217. S Wood's Athena Oxon. vol. ii. g. 13. 1111...111111119=911Fonali.alk.Kno, ,Licannwi
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