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     Henry Ryther (of Laleham) married Elizabeth Sallett on 9 October 1569 in All Saints, Laleham, Middlesex, England.
A Henry Ryther was buried 29 Mar 1570 at Laleham.

     Horace Ryther was born before 13 October 1850 in Cawood, Yorkshire. He was the son of Charles Ryther and Ann Unknown (Ryther).

     Hugh Ryther was born circa 1175. He was the son of William Ryther. They was listed on a deed dated between 1192 and 1194 as a witness. William de Riha (brother & heir of William) in 1192 or 1194 gave to Nun Appleton priory a yearly rent of 5 marks for the church of Ryther; and witnessed by John, Gilbert & Hugh, sons of William de Riha, evidently the grantor's sons. The first witness Ralph, archdeacon of Hereford, occurs as a justice of Yorkshire in 1192 and 1194. Early in the reign of Richard I, a controversy about the church of Ryther had ended by a release by the prioress of Nun Appleton of all claim to the advowson, receiving a yearly rent of 5 marks from William de Ryther. The controversy had probably arisen on the succession of William de Ryther the younger, and the charter quoted in the text presumably confirmed the arrangement then made.
     Hugh died circa 1200. He was mentioned in a deed dated 1200. At Michaelmas 1200 Wm de Ria owed 10 marks for having an inquisition in regard to an appeal made by Gilbert son of William de Ria against Adam de St Quintin for the death of Hugh his (Gilbert's) brother.

     Hugh Ryther was born in 1699 in Scarcroft, Thorner, Yorkshire. He was living in 1706 aged 7. He was the son of John Ryther and Mary Appleby.
     In Mary Appleby's will dated 9 March 1707, Hugh Ryther was named as heir. He was mentioned on 15 January 1722 in Thorner, Yorkshire, Recusants: Hugh Ryther, gent of Thorner, papist. The Roman Catholic Oath records describe him as of Scarcroft. He was also listed on 30 April 1717.
     Hugh died before 20 April 1724 in Thorner, Yorkshire.
     His will was proved on 27 April 1724 at the Prerogative Court of York.
     Hugh Ryther and Marmaduke Ryther were mentioned in a deed dated 28 May 1724 in Scarcroft, Thorner. A four part indenture dated 28 May 1724 ...between Edward Ridsdale the younger of Ripon and Ann his wife sister & administratix of the goods and chattels of William Blackett ... ... Richard Brigham, gent. of the city of York executor of the last will and testament of Hugh Ryther late of Scarcroft, Esq. Marmaduke Ryther, Esq of Scarcroft afsd unkle and heir of the said Hugh Ryther, George Ryther of Scarcroft, gent, next brother of the said Marmaduke .... re manor of Scarcroft. late of John Ryther father of the said Marmaduke Ryther, Mary wife of the same John, John Ryther the younger brother of the said Marmaduke and of Robert Ryther gentleman deceased unkle of the said Marmaduke or any of them situate lying and being within the manor Lordship village of Scarcroft ... John Ryther the elder Mary his wife, John Ryther the younger and Robert Ryther unto ... .

     Humphrey Ryther was christened on 29 November 1685 in Winterton, Lincolnshire. He was the son of Willam & Mary.. He was the son of William Ryther and Mary Sawer.
Humphrey Ryther married Anne Smith before 1726.
     Humphrey was buried on 1 September 1771 in Broughton by Brigg, Lincolnshire.

     Infant Ryther was born in Mapgait, Leeds, Yorkshire. He was the son of Robert Ryther.
     Infant died before 13 November 1655 in Leeds, Yorkshire. He was buried on 13 November 1655 in St Peter, Leeds.

     Isaac Ryther was born on 16 August 1672 in Northall, Leeds, Yorkshire. He was the son of Francis Ryther and Martha Walker/Walton/Walter. Isaac Ryther was christened on 25 August 1672 in Leeds, Yorkshire.

     Isaac Ryther was born before 1830.
Isaac Ryther married Sarah Unknown (Ryther) before 1851.

     Isabel Ryther was born on 16 September 1660 in Timble bridge, Leeds, Yorkshire. She was the daughter of John Ryther and Elizabeth Unknown (Ryther). Isabel Ryther was christened on 23 September 1660 in St Peter, Leeds, Yorkshire.
     Isabel died before 16 November 1660 in Leeds, St Peter, YKS. She was buried on 16 November 1660 in St Peter, Leeds.

     Isabell Ryther was also known as Ryder in records. She was the daughter of Thomas Ryther.
     Isabell was buried on 2 November 1608 in Haxey, Lincolnshire.

     Isabella Ryther was born circa 1380 in Yorkshire. She was the daughter of Sir William Ryther and Sibyl de Aldeburgh.
Isabella Ryther married John Thwaites.
     Isabella died after 1469. Stirnet gives 1440 as her death date.. She was buried after 1469 in Harewood, Yorkshire.

     Isabella Ryther was also known as Ryder in records. She was christened on 6 March 1541/42 in Epworth, Lincolnshire. She was the daughter of John Ryther and Agnes Unknown (Ryther).
On 11 June 1557 Isabella Ryder fil Johis Rydar, godmother to Agnes Theaker at Epworth.

     Isabella Ryther was also known as Margaret Isabella in records. She was born circa 1435 in Ryther, Yorkshire. Margaret Isabel Ryther, b. 1446, Rither, (daughter of Sir William and Isabella (Gasciogne) Ryther). She was also described as sister of Sir Robert Ryther. She was the daughter of Sir William Ryther and Elizabeth Gascoigne.
Isabella Ryther married Sir Guy Fairfax, son of Richard Fairfax and Eustachia Carthorpe, in Yorkshire.
At Westminster. The day after St Martin, 16 Edward IV [12 November 1476].
Parties:     Guy Fairfax, Thomas Normanuyle, knight, William Huse, Miles Willesthorp', William Ryther, Edmund Skerne and John Burton', clerk, querents, and Robert Roos of Laxton', esquire, and Elizabeth, his wife, deforciants.
Property:     The manor of Steton' and 4 messuages, 30 bovates of land, 16 acres of meadow, 60 acres of pasture, 4 acres of wood, 300 acres of moor and 3 acres of marsh in Steton'.
Plea of covenant.
Agreement: Robert and Elizabeth have acknowledged the manor and tenements to be the right of Guy, and have remised and quitclaimed them from themselves and the heirs of Robert to Guy, Thomas, William, Miles, William, Edmund and John and the heirs of Guy for ever.
Warranty:     Warranty by Robert and Elizabeth for themselves and the heirs of Elizabeth, against Thomas, abbot of the monastery of the Blessed Mary of Kirkstall, and his successors.
For this:     Guy, Thomas, William, Miles, William, Edmund and John have given them 200 marks of silver..
     Isabella was buried in Bolton Percy, Yorkshire. She was buried in the quire with her spouse.

     James Ryther was born before 1675 in Yorkshire, England. James was a linen-draper in 1703, York. He was described as James Ryther, linen-draper, the only Ryther freeman listed in York between 1680 and 1986.

     James Ryther was born before May 1543 in Canterbury, Kent. He was aged 23 in May 1566, when his mother was declared a lunatic. However he was aged 26.5 in 1558/9. He was nearly 30 when he succeeded his father in 1563. In the 1585 visitation, he stated that he was the son of Wm and Mary. He was the son of William Ryther and Mary Hales.
     James resided at Northamptonshire. He wrote that he had been brought up in Northamptonshire and it is likely that he would have been attached to one of the gentry or noble families.
     In William Ryther's will dated 5 January 1558/59 in Harewood, Yorkshire, James Ryther was named as heir.
On 17 June 1563, four months after his father's death, by bill of the Court of Wards, James was licensed to enter upon his estates and he moved to Harwood. He was an executor of William Ryther's estate on 11 July 1565 in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury.
Mary Ryder, widow, lunatic: Inquisition taken at the Guildhall 9 May 1566, before Richard Champion, knight, mayor & escheator, to enquire as to the lunacy of Mary Ryder, widow, late the wife of William Ryder, esq., who died in co. York, by the oath of Thomas Litton, John Hatton, Henry Sutton, Richard Henman, Stephen Walden, William Smithe, John Noble, Arthur Ravenscroft, Robert Dickenson, Robert Crips, Michael Smythe, Walter Browne, Richard Smyth, Henry Shawe, John Harrison, and Anthony Garret, who say that: Mary Ryder from the last day of June 6 Edw VI [1552] up to the day of taking the inquisition has been a lunatic, and incapable of governing herself or her lands, goods, etc. She does not enjoy lucid intervals, but before the said last day of June she was in her right mind.
The said Mary Ryder has no lands within the city of London to the knowledge of the said jurors. James Ryder is the next heir of the said Mary, and is now aged 23 years and more.
James Ryther married Elizabeth Atherton, daughter of William Atherton, before 1570. He had 6 children by 1577. There are no marriage records extant at Bardsey 1568-1577.
Between 1571 and 1583 James Ryther purchased property in Harewood between 1571 and 1583.
In Hilary Tern 1571/2 James Ryther sold to Anthony Maude & Cecilia his wife.... lands in Dunkeswell..
In 1571/72 James Ryther sold property in Dunkeswick, Yorkshire. Hilary Term, Fine between Anthony Mawde, gent and Cicely his wife, plaintiffs, and James Ryther esq., deforciant, of a messuage, a toft, a barn, a garden, an orchard, 20 acres of land, 40 acres of meadow, 100 acres of pasture, 10 acres of wood, 30 acres of furze and heath, 20 acres of turbary, 20 acres of moss, and common pasture for all animals, in Dunkeswycke, which Dame Anne Browne, widow, holds for life: to hold after the death of Anne, to Anthony & Cicely and the heirs of Cicely.
In 1574/75 James Ryther purchased property in Harewood in 1574/75. Hilary Term:|James Ryther & William Plumpton Esqs., plaintiffs, Matthew Redman esq. & William Redman, gent. re 20 messuages and 20 cottages with lands in Harwoodde, Hetherycke, Werdeley and Dunkeswicke, also the moiety of the manor of Harwood.
Depositions taken 20-22 June 17th Eliz (1575) re Harwood castle and park plus interagatories on behalf of James Ryther complainant against Mathew Redman, Richard Travers, John Pleasington & William Ancland?.
Bill of Complaint in the Star Chamber of James Ryther and William Plumpton re the purchase of the Redman moiety of Harewood.
The Queen v. ?: Purchase of the manor and castle of Harwoode, whether the money was lent at usury between James Rither and Willm. Readman: York 19 Eliz (1577).
Counterpart of an indenture dated 13 May [1577]: 2. Francys Gascoigne of Gawthorpe esq. William Plompton of Plompton esq. James Ryther of Harwood esq. Bryan Palmes of Naburne esq. Richard Gascoigne of Lasyngcrofte esq. Christopher Mather of Seacrofte esq. John Ellys of Bardsey gent. Mathew More of Awstroppe gent. Richard Greene of Whitkirke gent. Henry Norton of Secrofte gent. Thomas Leedes of Leade [?] gent. Robert Oglethorpe of Bardsey gent. Bryan Askwithe of Osgodby gent. Owen Ragesdale of Headley gent. William Oglethorpe of Oglethorpe gent. John Gascoigne of Parlyngton gent. John Laundere of Heyworthe [...] gen Nicholas Scargill of Doncaster gent. William Oglethorpe of Roundhay gent. and Robert Cloughe of Rygton gent.
Counterpart of an indenture made between 1. John Conyers of London esq. 2. Francys Gascoigne of Gawthorpe esq. William Plompton of Plompton esq. James Ryther of Harwood esq. Bryan Palmes of Naburne esq. Richard Gascoigne of Lasyngcrofte esq. Christopher Mather of Seacrofte esq. John Ellys of Bardsey gent. Mathew More of Awstroppe gent. Richard Greene of Whitkirke gent. Hnery Norton of Secrofte gent. Thomas Leedes of Leade [?] gent. Robert Oglethorpe of Bardsey gent. Bryan Askwithe of Osgodby gent. Owen Ragesdale of Headley gent. William Oglethorpe of Oglethorpe gent. John Gascoigne of Parlyngton gent. John Laundere of Heyworthe gen Nicholas Scargill of Doncaster gent. William Oglethorpe of Roundhay gent. and Robert Cloughe of Rygton gent.
Reciting that Lady Margaret Gascoigne widow of Sir John Gascoigne of Cardington co. Bedford, by deed dated 28 August 16 Eliz [1574] gave to John Russell gent. and John Aylford alias Tailour of Cardington, yeoman, an annuity of £10 issuing out of Thorpestapleton manor, (after her death) payable at the feasts of St. Michael the archangel and the Annunciation (with distress clause), to be paid by them to the Parson and Churchwardens of Whitechurch or Whytkirke to be indifferently distributed by them to the poor of Whitkirk according to their needs. The lands at that time being leased to John Barstowe and Dorothy Scargill widow, the rent could not be levied, but now the reversion of the manor of Thorpestapleton had passed to John Conyers, who was desirous of observing Lady Margater's intention
And reciting that there was reserved and payable for the said manor upon the lease the yearly rent of £42. 15s. 0d.
John Conyers, in full satisfaction of all arrears, granted to (2) the sum of £10 to be paid annually out of the yearly rent of £42. 15s. 0d. to the use of the poor as afordsaid.
Signed and sealed by the feoffees - red wax seals on tags.
James Ryther, in common with other landowners of the day, was seeking to turn to his own advantage the legislation which favoured the enclosure of waste land. Litigation records show that in the course of 1579-1580 Ryther bought a case relating to common rights against one Robert Hopwood and others before the Star Chamber. Only Ryther's Bill of complaint survives, but Hopwood's name occurs again the next case and the two may be part of a single episode. The second case reputed in August 1580, sparked off by Ryther's enclosing "one parcel of ground lately called the Long Wood and now called the Spring'. In that month Thomas Wentworth of Wentworth Woodhouse, husband of Margaret Gascoigne, heiress to the manor of Gawthorpe which adjoined Harewood, supported by Robert Hopwood and 25 others assembled "in riotous manner" and pulled or cut down Ryther's enclosing hedge and turned their cattle into the place. Ryther brought proceedings, which lasted from June 1581 to September 1582, but the results are unclear.
In 1580/81 James Ryther purchased property in Yorkshire in 1580/81. Hilary Term 23 Eliz. Plaintiffs: John Manners, esq., James Ryther, esq., Edward Herne, esq. John Woolmer, gent., and Richard Barnard, gent; John Freston, gent, deforciant; re 20 messuages with lands in Altofts, Normanton, Warmefeild, Kirkethorpe, Heath, Sandall, Wakefield, Sharleston, Pountfrett, Fetherston, Acton, Ferryfreston, Brotherton, Knottingley, Ferrybrigge and Madley.
One of the experts called in an enquiry into Dover Haven in 1581 was James Ryther.
Thomas Wentworth, armiger, won a defamation case against James Ryther, armiger, between Jan & August 1582. James was admitted to Gray's Inn in February 1581/82, London.
     James was a plaintiff in a civil court case in February 1581/82 in London. 1581-2: Bill of complaint in the Star Chamber of James Rither of London, Esq. administrator of the goods and chattels of William Atherton of Harewood, gent, deceased, during the nonage of Robert & John Rither, the plaintiff's sons, executors appointed by William Atherton's will. Atherton in his lifetime delivered to Anthony Mawde of Helthwayhill £100 to be safely kept for Atherton's use, and to be paid to him or his assigns on demand, and by his will gave all his goods, etc. not otherwise bequeathed (and therefore including the £100) to the said Robert & John Rither, and made them executors. John has since died, but Robert is alive and still under 21. The plaintiff, as adminstrator, demanded the £100, but Mawde refused to repay it. The plaintiff, about two years ago, complained before the Council of the North at York, when Mawde appeared, and falsely swore that the £100 was a gift. He asked for a supoena against Mawde for perjury. Mawde demurred, on the ground that the cause of complaint arose before the Council of York, and could therefore be best tried there..
     James Ryther mortgaged property on 8 May 1584. James mortgaged his property to secure a debt to Hugh Hare which led to a long series of disputes and eventually being jailed for debt.
Of Harewood Castle, Esquire of the Body to Queen Elizabeth, living 1585.
Lord of Harewood 1563. His son Robert was Lord of Harewood 1596 and an inquisition showed him living there in 1595 aged 21.
Jones stated: The last two inhabitants of the Castle were James Rither and his son & heir Robert Ryther. James was born in 1536. He was an Esquire of the Body to Queen Elizabeth, and a warm and attached friend to Lord Burghley, the celebrated statesman. Reproduces letters from Harewood Castle from 1587-1591 respecting the incursions of the Scots, the base ingrossing of corn in at York & Hull, re Mr Bellasis to be Justice of the Peace as too weak for military service, the increases in alehouses in Yorkshire.
He was described by the son of his neighbour Thomas Wentworth: "But his proud overweening condition, albeit he had especial good gifts of nature, brought him to die in the Fleet for debt and his son ... to sell his inheritance...".
He supplied information about his family to Glover at his Heraldic Visitation in 1585. His son Robert was mentioned as aged 14.      
James Ryther was the Member of Parliament.
b. 1536, o.s. of William Ryther of Canterbury, Kent, and Harewood by Mary, da. of Sir James Hales, l.c.j. common pleas. m. c.1570, Elizabeth, da. and coh. of William Atherton of Harewood, 2s. 5da. suc. fa. 1563.
Offices Held J.P. Yorks. (W. Riding) by 1587, q. 1595.1
Biography
By his own account Ryther was born in Kent and brought up in Northamptonshire. In 1563 he succeeded to the moiety of the manor and castle of Harewood which his father had inherited on the death of a distant cousin, and eventually moved back to Yorkshire. He was descended from Thomas, son of Sir Thomas Ryther (or Ryder) of Ryther in the West Riding, and related through the descendants of Thomas’s brother Sir Ralph to the Constables of Flamborough and the Ashes of Aughton, who in turn were related to the Cliffords, earls of Cumberland, the nominal patrons of the borough of Appleby. That he owed his election directly to his kinship with the 3rd Earl is not unlikely, but he was also known to several members of the Russell family and to Lord Burghley.2
In a short sequence of letters beginning in 1587 when he had lived in Yorkshire for 20 years and was one of its justices of the peace, Ryther described to Burghley the condition of the county and the district around Kendal. York was very badly governed; the poor committed great disorders which might be prevented if gentlemen were forbidden to dismiss their servants; there was too much engrossing of corn; the number of alehouses had increased because the justices’ clerks were making money out of licensing them; the justices were inadequate and too few; and the common people, though courteous and tractable, were attached to custom and not readily disposed to accept the high authority of Parliament; the only northern gentleman worthy of his calling was the Earl of Cumberland; the further north one went, ‘the less the truth’; the borderers sold horses to our ‘back friends’ the Scots; Scottish faults were spreading into England, and so on. In one letter, dated 7 Apr. 1588 but endorsed 7 Apr. 1589, he enjoins Burghley to bear with Christian fortitude the death of the ‘late weak lady’ who had been lent to him by divine providence for longer than human reason could have expected. Though always respectful, these letters from Ryther to Burghley seem to claim a degree of acquaintance bordering on the familiar; they suggest that Burghley had known him for some years, as indeed he would have done if, as has been asserted, Ryther had been an esquire of the body to the Queen as his father had been to Queen Mary.3
A very different picture of Ryther was given by Archbishop Sandys in his report of September 1587 on Yorkshire justices. To the archbishop he was ‘a sour and subtle papist’, who had been put into the commission for that very reason, ‘ready to hinder any matter that shall touch any papist’, ‘a man unprofitable for the commonwealth and full of contention’, dependent on Sir Thomas Fairfax ‘to make good his evil causes’. To another he was ‘a man profoundly studied in Macchiavelli’. He remained in the commission, but his unpopularity in the county contributed to a curious change in his fortunes. In January 1592 he was petitioning Burghley, ‘his singular good lord and patron’, to secure his release from Newgate, whither he had been sent by order of the court of wards because of a debt to the Queen which he claimed he had paid. It was being said of him that he was ‘a troublesome man’ to the gentlemen of the county, which was untrue, and that ‘I will pay no man his due, a thing far from me’. He was ‘a gentleman not meanly descended, a poor servant to her Majesty’, to whom he had given good service in his county and who had promised to protect him. As for the allegation that he was at variance with the Fairfaxes, the fact was that he was very closely tied to them by blood and friendship. The end of this affair is not known.4
By mid-July 1594 he was a prisoner again, this time in the Fleet. The Countess of Cumberland, writing to an unnamed correspondent, begged him to move Sir Robert Cecil on Ryther’s behalf; she herself had spoken in his favour to the Queen. He was still confined on 17 Dec., when Stanwardine Passy, servant to the keeper of the Gatehouse, reported in French to Richard Topcliffe that there was ‘no news but a letter from Mr. Ryder in the Fleet’. A later letter, to Archibald Douglas, the Scotch ambassador in England, from ‘you know who’, tells more: ‘Mr. Rydder was loosed out of prison yesternight and is to be troubled with strait watching which hinders all his business’. The writer had given him £80 and had agreed ‘to pleasure’ him with £65 more.5
Ryther died 4 Sept. 1595. Four years after his death his heir was compelled to sell Harewood to pay his debts.6
Ref Volumes: 1558-1603
Authors: Irene Cassidy / E.L.C.M. in 1586 for Appleby, Westmorland.
     James Ryther was mentioned in September 1587 in Harewood In Sep 1587 the Edwin Sandys, Archbishop of York told Lord Burghley that James Ryther of Harewood, a J.P. was a soure, subtil papist, and brought into commission [of the Peace] in respect thereof. Ready to hinder any matter that shall touch any papist. He dependeth upon Sir Thomas Fairfax [of Denton] to make good his evil causes. Wentworth and Ryther were both considered to be Sir Thomas Fairfax's 'men'. In 1588 James wrote a description of Yorkshire among his letters to Lord Burghley.
James Rither's complained to Lord Burghley of the great increase of Ale-houses in Yorkshire. Another undated paper outlined Mr James Rither's scheme for a free school and relief of the poor, in the parish & manor of Harwood, Yks.
     James Ryther in Harewood sent a letter dated 17 July 1588. From Mr Rither, 1588 Ag: ye Scots, to the right honorable, my very good Lord the Lord High Treasure of England: .... My Lord, I was born in Kent, brought up in Northamptonshire, dwell now in Yorkshire and am often conversant with the people of Kendall .... Jame Rither, Harwoood xvij July 1588.
     James Ryther sent a letter dated 4 January 1591. James Rither, in Newgate to Lord Burghley, that he is thrown into that vile prisn for a debt to the Queen that he has already paid.
On 14 October 1591 he attested: I, James Ryther of Harwood Castell, in the county of York, Esquire, have caused this discent of kindred to be sett downe according to myne owne knowledge and view of writing, with other matters of evidences; also by credible reports of auncient men, to be true, in maner and forme as abovesaid; and that Wiliam Ryther, gentleman, now Sheriff of London, is descended from my auncestor Sr Wm Ryrher, of Ryther, in the county of Yorke, Kt., in maner and forme as is above sett downe. In witness whereof I have hereunto sett my hand and seale, the 14 day of October in the year of our Lord 1591 - by me James Rither. He was imprisoned from Jan 1591/2 in Fleet Prison & Newgate, London. January 4 1591/2: He writes to Lord Burghley "his singular good lord and patron" from Newgate, stating that he has been thrown in there by order of the court of wards for a debt to the Queen which he claimed to have paid. It was being said of him that he was "a troublesome man" to the gentlemen of the county, which was untrue, an that "I will pay no man his due, a thing far from me". He was a gentleman not meanly descended, a poor servant to her Majesty", to whom he had given good service in his county and had promised to protect him. As for the allegation that he was at variants with the Fairfaxes, the fact was that he was very closely tied to them by blood and friendship. The end of this affair is not known. On the 17th of the same month he wrote again begging that his accusers may be brought to justice.
25 June 1592. James Ryther from the Fleet to John Tamworth re sending money.
By mid July 1594 he was a prisoner again, this time in the Fleet. The Countess of Cumberland, writing to an unnamed correspondent, begged him to move Sir Robert Cecil on Ryther's behalf; she herself had spoken in his favour to the Queen. He was still confined on 17 December when Stanwardine Passy, servant to the Keeper of the Gatehouse, reported in French to Richard Topcliffe that there was "no news but a letter from Mr Ryder in the Fleet". A later letter, to Archibald Douglas, the Scotch ambassador in England, from "you know who", tells more: "Mr Rydder was loosed out of prison yesternight and is to be troubled with strait watching which hinders all his business". The writer had given him £80 and had agreed "to pleasure" him with £65 more.
The Castle was eventually, on 11 April 1593, occupied by Hare's men, but only after a clash between 30 & 40 on either side. Bows and arrows, guns and stones, armour, shot and munition were called into use. One of Ryther's men was killed and John Savile himself was "struck on the breast with an arrow shot out of a bow by a very strong archer to the great peril of the loss of his life". The defence, if it is the right term, was headed by James' son Robert Ryther, supported by a faithful servant Ralphe Conystone. Robert was conspicuous by his violent language, saying that if any durst approach he "would make hold in their flesh and kill them and hang their skins on the hedge".
Countess of Cumberland to —.
Begging him Lo move Sir Robert Cecil on behalf of Mr. Ryther, a prisoner in the Fleet that “law may be granted him.” Moved her Majesty on the man's behalf when she was at Court upon Sunday was sevennight.—Bedford House, 15 July, 1594.
     James died on 30 December 1595 or September 1596 in London?. James Ryther died the last day of September 38 Elizabeth; Harewood descended to Robert Ryther his son & heir who sold the property to Thomas Wentworth in 1601. Memorial at Harewood?
Four years after his death his heir was compelled to sell Harewood to pay his debts. He was buried on 5 January 1595/96 in the churchyard of St Bride's, Fleet Street, London.
     James Ryther was the subject of an Inquisition Post Mortem held in Leeds, Yorkshire, on 4 September 1596. His son Robert was shown as aged 21 in 38 Eliz (1596) living at Harewood.
Plaintiffs: Robert Ryther and Ralph Conyston. Defendants: John Savill and Hugh Hare. Respecting a demise by James Ryther deceased, father of plaintiff Robert Ryther, to defendant Hugh Hare, of the manor of Harwood [Harewood], or lands in Harwood [Harewood] and Stockton, Yorkshire..
     The administration of his estate was granted to Robert Ryther on 8 May 1604 at PCC. Jas Rither, St Bride, Fleet St London, to Robert Ryther son.
Right Hon. Margaret Countess Dowager of Cumberland. v. John Wood: Lands in the manor of Harwood and Stockton, conveyed by Jas. Ryther to Albany Butler, two parts whereof were seized by Crown for recusancy of the latter; granted by Queen Elizabeth to John Dumbwell, and since bought by plaintiff of Albany. James Ryther was mentioned in a deed dated 1606/7. Michaellmas Term. In a memorandum in the Exchequer the fifth year of the now King James [1606/7] that is to say amongst the Records of Michaelmass Terme role in the Exchequer out of the part of the Treasury Remembrancer remaines agmongst other records thereis contained that is to say as follows: York - Memorandum that because John Ryther late cofferer of the late King Edwarde the sixt who dyed as it was reported owed to our soveraign Lord the King the day wherein he dyed in the soum of four hundred & sixty eight pounds tenn shillings, be by himself received from the late court of Augmentations in performance toward the provision charges and expendses of the same house, by virtue of a warrant of the deceased King dated under the seal of the said late King Edward the sixt the seventh day of March in the third year of his regine of severall of his debts and truely which sums afsd are not as yett payed to our said Lord the King as in the Exchequer here appeared by records, Therefore it was commanded to the Sheriff of the county of the said York by the writt of our now said soverainge Lord King James of the said Exchequer dated at Westminster the second day of Jan in the year of his Rainge of England France & Ireland & the fourt of Scotland the thirtieth nine the he should not fail etc. that as will by thie oath of honest & lawfull men etc. who by allways means & measures which by the bietter etc. diligently they inquire in what day and yeare where the said John Ryther dyed or what all his goods & chattels & what value the same John had in his balliwick afsd the day which he dyed & to which or whose hands the same goods & goods & chattesl after the death of the said John came to ... he shall take into the hands of our said Lord the King to the value of the afsd debt, & afterwards hee shall ... that debt soe that he ought to have the moneys before these Barrons from holy Trinitie day in fifteen days for the said our Lord the King now, than there to be payed in the same place ... Timothy Hutton kt, late sheriff of the sd co. sd writt to him in the premisses directed & commanded by the indorsement of the same writt that hee by virtue of that writt to him directed the five & twentieth day of June the afsd yeare tooke into the hands of our sd Lord the King the mannor, messuage, lands and temenements in a certain inquisition annext to the sd writt as it was ordered to the same sheriff & commanded further that the residue of the execution of that writt afsd writ taken at the Castle of York upon Monday the three & twentieth day of June in the year Jas 4 ...
It was found that the said John Ryther was named seized in his demean as of fee of and in the mannor of Harwood with the appurtenances and of & in divers lands & tenements pertaining to the same mannor of the yearly value in all consisted beyond preissalls of fourty pounds wich trul was returned by the said Barrons, Here may be seen and understood, It was agreed amongst the same Barrons that the foresead manor of Harwood with the appurtenances should now remain in the hands of our now said Lord the King till what time etcetera And notwithstanding now that is to say the third day of November in this terme here came a certaine man called Thomas Wentworth gentleman son and heir apparent of William Wentworth Esq possessing the foresaid manor with all its appurtances in his proper person & desires the report of the fsd writt & the retorn of the same as also of the fsd inquisition & they are read to him, the which being read & by him heard & understood the same Thomas demaunds the fsd manor with its appurtenances in the hands of our afsd Lord the King that now is ...
Yet for his plea he says that long before the said John Ryther in the afsd writt named became debtor to our said Lord the King Edward 6 of 468 pounds tenn shillings and nine pence one Henry Ryther was seized in his demeane as of fee tail of and in a moietie of the same mannor of Harwood with the appurtenances as it is contained in the fourth part of the Original of the thirtieth five year of the late King Henry the eight role the thirtieth four & one Richard Redman was likewise seized in his demeans as of the fee of and in another moietie of the same Mannor of Harwood with the appurtuenaces as is contained in a memorandum of the three & thirtieth years of the said late King Henry * in Easter term recorded in the fift role & they set separately there of remained seized Afterwards that is to say the fift day of January in the year of the Raigne of the fsd Henry 8 the five & thirtieth the said Henry Ryther dyed seized of the said moietie of him the said Henry of the said mannor, after whose death the same moietie of the afsd mannor descended to William Ryther as cousin & next heir male of the same Henry Ryther, by virtue of which the same William Ryther entered into the same moietie of the afsd mannor with its appurtenances & was seized there of as in his demean of fee in tailed & the same William soe thereof remeined seized Afterwards that is to say the fift day of February Eliz 5 (1563) the same William Ryther dyed so seized after whose death the same moitie of the afsd mannor descended to one James Ryther as son & heir of the sd William Ryther ... And the fsd Richard Redman as it appeareth in forme afds remaining seized in the other afsd moitie ... Afterwards 29 Jan Hen 8 the 25 the same Richard Redman died soe seized after whose death the same other moietie of the manor descended to one Matthew Redman as son & next heir of Richard. ... Afterwards a certain fine was levied ... between James Ryther & one William Plumton Esq. plaintiffs & the afsd Matthew Redman & one William Redman deforciants (amongst others) of the afsd other moietie of the afsd manor of Harwood ... that Matthew & William Redman should recognise the afsd moietie with the appurtenances to be the right of the said James: as they which the same James & William Plumpton had of the gift of the afsd Matthew & William Redman & their lawful heirs afsd unto James & William Plumton the the heirs of him the same James forever as by the fine afsd (amongst others) doth most pl ... appear, Which fine indeed s... forme afsd ... was had to ... to the use of the afsd James Ryther & William Plumton & their heirs by virtue of which the same James Ryther & Wm Plumton entered into the same other moietie of the afsd manor ... The same William Plumpton aftwds released to the said James Ryther all the state, right, title & interest of the same the same William .... by virtue of which the same James Ryther was sole seized ... Afterwards, 30 Sep Eliz 38 (1596) the same James Ryther dyed soe seized after whose death the fsd manor descend to one Robert Ryther as son & heir of the said James. Who sold the property to Thomas Wentworth in 1601. ... Without this that the said John Ryther cofferer in the time wherein he was debtor to the said late King Edward 6 became or whither ever afterwards was seized in his demeanes.

     James Ryther was christened on 14 March 1670/71 in Belton in Axholme, Lincolnshire.
     James died before 14 March 1670/71 in Belton in Axholme, Lincolnshire. He was buried on 14 March 1670/71 in All Saints, Belton. He was the son of Robert Ryther and Margaret Campion.

     James Ryther was christened on 5 July 1657 in St Peter, Leeds, Yorkshire. John Ryther of Timble Bridge had a child born 5 July and baptised the same day named James. He was born on 5 July 1657 in Timble bridge, Leeds, Yorkshire. He was the son of John Ryther and Elizabeth Unknown (Ryther).

     James Ryther was also known as Ryder in records. He was christened on 6 April 1637 in Leeds, Yorkshire. He was the son of Thomas Ryther and Grace Smith.

     James Ryther was born say 1595.
James Ryther married Dorothy Butterfield on 9 August 1618 in Holy Trinity, York, Yorkshire.

     James Ryther was christened on 3 August 1745 in St Peter, Leeds, Yorkshire. He was the son of George Ryther (of Leeds).

     James Ryther was christened on 7 September 1550 in Epworth, Lincolnshire. He was the son of John Ryther.
     James was buried on 8 October 1551 in Epworth, Lincolnshire. Filius Johis Ryther, but could also be filia = daughter.

     James Ryther was christened in April 1619 in Holy Trinity, York, Yorkshire. He was the son of James Ryther and Dorothy Butterfield.

     James died circa 1627 in Soho, Westminster, Middlesex, England.
     His will was proved in 1627 at the Prerogative Court of Canterbury.

     James was buried on 11 August 1563 in St Martin, Ironmonger Lane, London.

     James Ryther (son of John of Epworth 2) was christened on 7 September 1550 in Epworth, Lincolnshire. He was the son of John Ryther and Agnes Unknown (Ryther).
James Ryther (son of John of Epworth 2) married Isabella Wroite on 12 October 1573 in Epworth, Lincolnshire.

     Jane Ryther was born on 30 August 1669 in Northall, Leeds, Yorkshire. She was the daughter of Francis Ryther and Martha Walker/Walton/Walter. Jane Ryther was christened on 5 September 1669 in Leeds, Yorkshire.

     Jane Ryther was also known as Ryder in records. She was christened on 5 March 1636/37 in Leeds, Yorkshire. She was the daughter of Thomas Ryther and Grace Smith.

     Jane Ryther was christened on 19 September 1634 in St Denis, York, Yorkshire. She was the daughter of John Ryther.

     Jane Ryther was christened on 26 May 1679 in Thorner, Yorkshire. She was the daughter of John Ryther and Mary Langdale. Jane Ryther was confirmed as a Roman Catholic in 1687 in Hazlewood or Hazelwood, Yorkshire.

     Jane Ryther was the daughter of Christopher Ryther and Sybil Walker.