Crisp, Tobias

Anthony Wood, Athena-e Oxonienses (1692), vol. 2, pp. 12-13 Roger Pooley, Crisp, Tobias (1600-1643) , ODNB. The London bookseller George Thomason dated his copy of Christ Alone Exalted 22 July 1643. 

J.F. Maclear, Crisp, Tobias (1600-1643) , in Richard Greaves and Robert ZaUer (eds.). Biographical Dictionary of British Bjadicals in the Seventeenth Century (3 vols., Brighton, 1982-84), vol. 1, p. 192. 

Equally noteworthy were Tobias Crisp s mercantile family ties. For his father had been a London alderman while Tobias himself had married Mary, daughter of merchant Rowland Wilson the elder. His brother-in-law was Rowland Wilson, a freeman of the East India Company who was involved in the Spanish wine trade and whom Keith Lindley has identified as a leading City parliamentarian during the Civil War. Moreover, Tobias s widow would marry the Massachusetts Bay Company investor, Virginia tobacco trader and regicide Owen Rowe. All of which suggests that Jane s merchant brother may have had dealings with this powerful commercial network. 

Tobias Crisp, Christ Alone Exalted (1643), preface, p. 19. 

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