Career
Known as Bishop Crisp, he was a butcher by trade, who carried out his business at the corner of Lister-gate and Broad-marsh in the City of Nottingham. The sprinkling process was performed chiefly at the Exchange pump, while the spectators sang:
"We"ll pump upon them till they sing, Upon their knees, God save the King". "The Bishop" was convicted at the Spring Assizes of the following year for his riotous conduct during the ducking season, fined a nominal sum, and imprisoned for six months.
He died in May, 1819.