Nathanael Ball (1623 – 8 September 1681) was an English clergyman, an assistant to Brian Walton in his London Polyglot Bible.
He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School before entering King's College, Cambridge, where he had a name as a scholar.
and M.A.,[2] he received orders, and was settled at Barley, Hertfordshire, a living recently sequestered from Herbert Thorndike.
In 1668 he took part with Stephen Scandrett, Barnard, Havers, Coleman, and Billio in two public disputes with George Whitehead, a Quaker.
In 1669 he was returned to Archbishop Gilbert Sheldon as a 'teacher to a conventicle at Thaxted, in connection with Scambridge [Scandaret] and Billoway [Billio].'
He lived 'in a small cottage of forty shillings a year rent,' and frequently suffered for nonconformity.