_Rathband Family._--Can any of your readers assist me in distinguishing
between the several members of this clerical family, which flourished
during the period of the Commonwealth, and immediately preceding? From
Palmer's _Nonconformist Mem._ (vol. i. p. 520.), there was a Mr. William
Rathband, M.A., ejected from Southwold, a member of Oxford University, who
was brother to Mr. Rathband, sometime preacher in the Minster of York, and
son of an old Nonconformist minister, Mr. W. Rathband, who wrote against
the Brownists.--I should feel obliged by any information which would
identify them with the livings they severally held.