John Ryther

(before April 1631 - 9 December 1703)
     John Ryther was also known as John Ryther (of Scarcroft & Thornerl) in records. He was born before April 1631 in Scarcroft, Thorner, Yorkshire. He was the son of John Ryther and Ursula Dolman.
John Ryther married Mary Langdale circa 1658?.
In the 1663 Archbishop's Visitation Books there are several mentions of John Ryther and his wife Frances: p.244 St Denis - Jn Ryther and wife Frances, Simon Ryther and his pretended wife Anne; p.247 1667 St Denis - John Ryther & wife Frances, Quakers. p.248. 28 March 1669 St Denis - John Ryder and wife Frances, 1673 St Denis - Jn Ryther (mort) & wife Frances & 10 others, not to church; 1674 Frances Ryther "pro consimil".
     John Ryther was mentioned between 1663 and 1691 in Thorner, Yorkshire, as a papist. Recusants, Thorner: 1663 John Ryther sen., Jn Ryther jun & wife; 1666 same; 1672 John Ryther gent & wife; 1674 John Ryther gent; 1680 Rythers; 1687 same; 1691 John & Mary Ryther, gent. and two others.
John Ryther was mentioned on 4 April 1666.
     John Ryther and John Ryther were mentioned in the 1672 hearth tax list in Scarcroft, Yorkshire. John Ryther esq. had 6 hearths and headed the list, also Ri. Ryther with 2 hearths & Mr Ryther with 1.
John Ryther, a Catholic gentleman of Scarcroft in the West Riding wrote to Richard Townley in March 1679 after the Assizes at York ... John Ryther, a Catholic country gentleman resident in York in 1679, wrote thence to a friend that everywhere the Oath of Allegiance was being tendered to Catholics and they were taking it en masse to his great shame and confusion....
Settlement by lease and release relating to property in Lund. Parties: 1) Philip Dolman of York, gentleman and his only daughter Ellin Dolman 2) Thomas Cholmeley of Brandsby esquire and John Vavasour of Willitoft, gentleman Property: two thirds of the rectory, glebe and tithes of Lund. To use of Philip Dolman for life, then to his son and heir Robert Dolman of York esquire and heirs of his body, subject to annuity of £20 to Ellin Dolman; remainder to John Ryther of Scarcroft, esquire Witnesses: Robert Dolman, John Bouker, William Horncastle, Marma. Slynger, Richard Talbot, John Gascoigne, William Metham and John Cotes.
     John resided at Scarcroft, Thorner, 27 January 1681. He and his sons John & Phillip are mentioned in the will of his uncle Phillip Dolman.
     John Ryther was mentioned in the will of Philip Dolman dated 27 January 1681. John Ryther was confirmed as a Roman Catholic in 1687 in Hazlewood or Hazelwood, Yorkshire.
     John was buried on 9 December 1703 in St Mary, Swillington, Yorkshire. John Ryther buried the 9th day of December.

Children of John Ryther and Mary Langdale

John Ryther

(circa 1660 - before 1 July 1723)
     John Ryther was also known as John Ryther (of Scarcroft) in records. He was born circa 1660 in Thorner, Yorkshire. He was the son of John Ryther and Mary Langdale.
     John Ryther was mentioned between 1663 and 1691 in Thorner, Yorkshire, as a papist. Recusants, Thorner: 1663 John Ryther sen., Jn Ryther jun & wife; 1666 same; 1672 John Ryther gent & wife; 1674 John Ryther gent; 1680 Rythers; 1687 same; 1691 John & Mary Ryther, gent. and two others. He was christened on 21 May 1663 in St Mary, Swillington.
John Ryther was mentioned on 4 April 1666.
In Heywood's register of Catholic Recusants of the West Riding of Yorkshire 1678-1691, John Ryther, gent and Mary his wife were listed at Scarcroft. No specific date is given so this could refer to his father. He was confirmed as a Roman Catholic in 1687 in Hazlewood or Hazelwood, Yorkshire.
John Ryther married Mary Appleby circa 1688. John Ryther and Catherine Ryther and Richard Popplewell were beneficiaries in Robert Ryther's will proved 27 May 1696 in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury. He inherited the estates of his sixth cousin Robert Ryther of Belton & Lincoln by his will dated 12 Nov 1694.
     John died before 1 July 1723 in Thorner, Yorkshire.
     The administration of his estate was granted on 1 July 1723 at the Prerogative Court of York. He was of Scarcroft, Thorner.

Child of John Ryther and Mary Appleby

John Ryther

(before 1610 - 29 September 1673)
     John Ryther was also known as John Ryther (the Quaker) in records. He was born before 1610 in Yorkshire.
John Ryther married Frances Unknown (Ryther) before 1634.
     John was a tanner.
In the 1663 Archbishop's Visitation Books there are several mentions of John Ryther and his wife Frances: p.244 St Denis - Jn Ryther and wife Frances, Simon Ryther and his pretended wife Anne; p.247 1667 St Denis - John Ryther & wife Frances, Quakers. p.248. 28 March 1669 St Denis - John Ryder and wife Frances, 1673 St Denis - Jn Ryther (mort) & wife Frances & 10 others, not to church; 1674 Frances Ryther "pro consimil"..
     John was buried on 29 September 1673 in York, Yorkshire.

Children of John Ryther and Frances Unknown (Ryther)

John Ryther

(before 1710 - )
     John Ryther was born before 1710 in Yorkshire, England.
John Ryther married Mary Hardgrave on 31 March 1730 in St Michael-le-Belfry, York, Yorkshire. John Ryther of St Olave parish & Mary Hardgrave of this parish.
John Ryther married secondly Martha Smith in 1743 in Adel, Yorkshire, England.
     John Ryther married thirdly Hannah Rohers in 1746 in Leeds, Yorkshire.

John Ryther

(circa 1500 - before 5 November 1552)
      Dugdale states that he was Cofferer to King Edward the Sixt (sic) and was son of Nicholas, He inherited Scarcroft and residue of Ryther in his cousin (once removed) Henry Ryther's will 1542/3.
He was mentioned in the will of Anthony Bonvix ...[as] John Ryther, the cofferer of the Household of King Edward VI. Bonvix died 7 Dec 1558. John Ryther was also known as John Ryther (the Cofferer) in records. He was born circa 1500. James Ryther in 1591 described him as the son of the sixth son of Willaim Ryther, but the brother of George Ryther, James' grandfather.. He was the son of Nicholas Ryther and Margaret Scrope.
John Ryther and Nicholas Ryther were mentioned between 1504 and 1515.
John Ryther married Ann Hussey.      
John Ryther was Family and Education: b. by 1514, prob. s. of Nicholas Ryther ?of Castle Hedingham, Essex by w. Margaret. educ. ?Queens’, Camb. pens. 1517-21. m. (1) Margaret; (2) Mary, at least 3s. 3da.1
Offices Held: Commr. tenths of spiritualities, Suff. 1535, subsidy, royal household 1547, relief 1550; comptroller, household of Elizabeth, dowager Countess of Oxford by 1537, of 16th Earl of Oxford in 1542; receiver, forfeited possessions of Cromwell 1540; cofferer, household of Prince Edward by 1541-7, royal household 1547-d.; receiver and chamberlain, ct. gen. surveyors of the King’s lands by 1545.2
Biography: John Ryther came of an old established Yorkshire family, which took its name from its main seat at Ryther in the West Riding. It is probable that he was the son of Nicholas Ryther, a servant of John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford, in 1490, and of Margaret Ryther ‘the elder’, servant to the earl’s widow. In 1537 the countess left the elder Margaret Ryther, ‘for the true and faithful service that she of long continuance hath done to me’, 100 marks, two silver-gilt salts and much linen and tapestry. To her comptroller of household John Ryther she left silver worth £11 6s.8d., to his wife Margaret some linen and bedding, to her goddaughter Elizabeth Ryther £5 and to a younger John Ryther the same sum; Margaret Ryther the elder and John Ryther were among the executors of the will. By her own will of 1542 this Margaret Ryther, then a widow, appointed her son John sole executor: she made bequests of silver and linen to other named relatives and charitable gifts to churches in Wakefield, Yorkshire, and at Castle Hedingham and Earls Colne, Essex, the last two being seats of the De Vere family.3
Nothing is known of Ryther’s early years. Of an age with the 14th Earl, he was doubtless reared to service in the household and may have been the ‘John Rider’ who was a pensioner at Queens’ College, Cambridge from 1517 to 1521. The year 1537, which saw the death of the countess and the birth of Prince Edward, was the occasion of Ryther’s entry into the royal service as well as of his growing employment in public affairs. In 1539 he was commissioned to report to Cromwell on the alleged embezzlement by one of the abbot’s servants of the jewelry of Colchester abbey; it was perhaps as a consequence of this assignment that he himself purchased £25 worth of the abbey’s ‘household stuff’ at the end of that year. The fall of the minister in the following one brought Ryther his first important post: in August 1540 he was appointed receiver of all Cromwell’s forfeited possessions and keeper of his principal house. His fee for this office was upwards of £35 a year plus one per cent of the ‘issues’, and in 1543 he received an additional £200, perhaps as a gratuity on the completion of a long and difficult assignment. The John Ryther who raised a company of eight billmen to serve in the French war of 1544 was probably a namesake, for he himself must have been fully occupied with the day-to-day financing of the expedition as one of the five persons authorized in May to purchase provisions for the army on the strength of bills which the treasurer for the war, Sir Richard Rich, was instructed to honour.4
In 1544 Ryther bought land in Essex from the Earl of Oxford and the crown and in the following year a good deal more in Suffolk, some of which he soon resold. His appointment as cofferer of the Household on Edward VI’s accession was followed by considerable rewards in land and money, including an annuity of 50 marks granted in July 1550. It also brought him a seat in Parliament, the choice being evidently dictated by his own and his family’s long connexion with the earls of Oxford. He owned only a small amount of property in Essex, but the 16th Earl could certainly dispose of at least one of the Colchester seats and Ryther would not have lacked support from the court: he was, for instance, a ‘most especial friend’ of the Protector Somerset’s brother-in-law (Sir) Clement Smith, who named him an executor. In the Commons Ryther presumably looked after the crown’s financial interest, but neither of the bills committed to him, to diswarren common land and to prevent regrating, forestalling and engrossing, was of much consequence.5
Ryther made his nuncupative will on 5 Oct. 1552 and died six days later. He left £100 to each of five named children and provided for the marriage of his two eldest sons to the two daughters of a Worcestershire landowner, John Pritchard, both of whose wardships he had purchased in 1551. Among the executors were his second wife Mary and John Wiseman of Great Canfield. Ryther’s eldest son John was about 19 at the time of his father’s death: in recognition of the dead man’s services to the crown the son was granted his own wardship and marriage as free gifts and in the following reign he was awarded an annuity of £37.6
On the list of Members of the Parliament of 1547 as revised for the final session of January 1552 Ryther’s name is erased and marked ‘mortuus’. As he did not die until the following October, after the Parliament had been dissolved, the emendation must have been made late in 1552 or early in 1553 and is probably to be connected with the nomination of Members to Edward VI’s second Parliament.7
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in 1535.
     In Margaret Scrope's will dated 22 March 1539/40, John Ryther was named as heir. John was the cofferer to the King's Household.
     In Sir Henry Ryther's will dated 23 January 1542/43 in Ryther, John Ryther was named as heir.
George Stonehouse to Sir Richard Sowthwell and John Rither, cofferer of the household; arrangements for victualling ships; Newcastle, 2 Nov. 1547.
Mary Unknown married secondly John Ryther before 1552.
29 June 1552 #45: Lists of suits made to the King on Sunday 29 June viz: For Mr Cofferer to have either the manor of West Pemered or of Baltonsborough, co. Somerset. . [Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, 1 July 1552 #48: Particular of a grant by the King to John Ryther (Cofferer of the Household) of the manor of Baltonsbury, co. Somerset. [ibid. p.42].
Grant by Letters Patent to John Rither. esq., of the lordship and manor of Baltonsborough, 12th July 6 Edw.VI [1552].
     John Ryther made a will dated 15 October 1552. Modern spelling transcript copyright ©2010 Nina Green All Rights Reserved
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SUMMARY: The document below is the Prerogative Court of Canterbury copy of the nuncupative last will and testament, dated 5 October 1552 and proved 5 November 1552, of John Ryther. The testator served as controller of the household of Elizabeth (nee Scrope) Beaumont de Vere (d.1537), Countess of Oxford. See the Countess’ will, TNA PROB 11/27, ff. 84-6:
Item, I give and bequeath to John Ryther, my controller of household, 2 pots of silver parcel-gilt which I lately bought of Master Lucas, weighing 64 ounces one quarter, and also 2 bowls of silver parcel-gilt of the value of £11 6s 8d, and for lack of the same bowls, he to have of my gift £11 6s 8d in ready money.
At the time the Countess made her will, the testator was married to his first wife,
Margaret, and had a daughter, Elizabeth, and a son, John:
Item, I give and bequeath to Margaret, his wife, my trussing bed of blue velvet and crimson, my counterpoint of yellow Turkey satin and curtain of yellow sarsenet to the same; item, 2 featherbeds, 2 bolsters, 2 pillows, 2 pillow-beres, 2 pair of sheets and one pair of fustians.
Item, I give to my god-daughter, Elizabeth Ryther, five pounds in ready money, and to John Ryther, her brother, other five pounds in ready money.
By the time the testator made the nuncupative will below Margaret had died, and the testator had several children by a second wife, Mary.
The testator’s mother, Margaret Ryther (d.1542?), had been for many years in the service of Elizabeth (nee Scrope) Beaumont de Vere (d.1537), Countess of Oxford, as evidenced by this bequest in the Countess’ will:
Item, I give and bequeath to Margaret Ryther th’ elder, for the true and faithful service that she of long continuance hath done to me, one hundred marks in ready money, 2 salts of silver and gilt with a cover and a Garter in the midst of them, weighing 26 ounces; item, 2 of my best featherbeds not before bequeathed; item, 4 pair of my best sheets, 2 bolsters, 2 pillows, one long, and 2 mattresses, 2 counterpoints, the one having the pictures of Saint John the Baptist, Saint Peter and Saint Giles of counterfeit arras, used to be laid upon my
bed, the other like unto the same of counterfeit arras; item, 2 pair of fustians; item, all my tappets of tapestry of damask-work, the ground green, with the Garter and my Lord’s arms in them, used to be hanged in my chamber; item, 2 brass pots of 3 gallons, 2 small pans of brass, and one garnish of counterfeit vessel largest of pewter.
For the will of the testator’s mother, Margaret Ryther (d.1542?), see TNA PROB 11/29, ff. 63-4.
According to Higges, the testator’s father had been in the service of John de Vere (1442-1513), 13th Earl of Oxford, although the testator’s father is not mentioned in the latter’s will, and the testator himself had served as controller of the household of the 16th Earl of Oxford. See Higgs, Laquita M., Godliness and Governance in Tudor Colchester (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1998), pp. 49-50, available online:
More obviously a protégé of [the 16th Earl of] Oxford than were either [John] Lucas or [Anthony] Stapleton was John Ryther, who served with Lucas in Edward VI’s first Parliament in 1547. There is no indication that Oxford dictated the selection of Lucas and Ryther, but it is quite possible that Oxford, as an active supporter of the Protestant Reformation, wanted the right people elected and used his influence to get them elected.
Ryther’s father had been a servant to the thirteenth earl, and Ryther began his service to the de Veres as comptroller of the household of Elizabeth, dowager countess, and after her death, comptroller of the sixteenth earl’s household. Probably the Oxford connections helped bring Ryther to the office of cofferer of the household of Prince Edward and then of the royal household, but even earlier Ryther would have come to the attention of Colchester when he was appointed by Thomas Cromwell to report on the alleged embezzlement by one of the abbot’s servants of the jewelry of Colchester abbey. Ryther served only in the 1547 Parliament for Colchester, as he died before another Parliament was elected.
It would appear that the testator and his parents were members of the family of Sir Ralph Ryther (b. about 1451, d. 2 October 1520) of Yorkshire, and were thus family connections of Elizabeth (nee Scrope) Beaumont de Vere (d.1537), Countess of Oxford, although the precise relationships have not yet been determined.
Sir Ralph Ryther (b. about 1451, d. 2 October 1520), was the second of the six sons of Sir William Ryther (d. 19 July 1475) and his wife, Eleanor Fitzwilliam, a descendant of Geoffrey Plantagenet (1113-1151). Sir Ralph Ryther married, firstly Katherine, the daughter of Sir Robert Constable of Flamborough, Yorkshire, and by her had two sons, Robert (d.1508?) and Thomas, and a daughter Eleanor. Sir Ralph Ryther married, secondly, Maud Percy, the daughter of Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland, and by her had a son, Henry, and a daughter, Elizabeth. His status as a powerful member of the Yorkshire gentry was confirmed by the marriages he arranged for his children. His elder son, Robert (d.1508?), was contracted to marry Elizabeth, the daughter of Sir William Gascoigne of Gawthorpe and his wife Alice Frognell. They were children, and the marriage terminated with the death of young Robert Ryther, probably around 1508 or so.
Little Elizabeth Gascoigne was then married (by 1510) to Robert Redman (d.1545), the son and heir of Edward Redman, who shared the lordship of Harewood Castle with Sir Ralph Ryther. The younger son, Thomas Ryther, then became his father's heir and a marriage was arranged for him by marriage settlement dated 2 April 1510 with Agnes, one of the younger sisters of Henry, 7th Lord Scrope of Bolton.
For information in the foregoing paragraph, see Richardson, Douglas, Plantagenet Ancestry (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 2004), p. 623; the entry for John Scrope (1437/8–1498), 5th Baron Scrope of Bolton in the online edition of The Dictionary of National Biography, and his will, TNA PROB 11/11, ff. 211-12; the entry for Henry Scrope (b. about 1468, d. 1506), 6th Baron Scrope of Bolton, in The Complete Peerage, p. 546; the pedigrees of Gascoigne, Redman, Scrope and Ryder in Norcliffe, Charles Best, ed., The Visitation of Yorkshire in the Years 1563 and 1563 by William Flower, Vol. 16,
(London: Harleian Society, 1881), pp. 136, 280, 367, available online; and
http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Soc/soc.genealogy.medieval/2006-
08/msg00722.html.
LM: Testamentum Iohannis Ryder Armigeri
Memorandum: That the 5th day of October in the year of Our Lord God a thousand five hundred fifty and two John Ryther, esquire, & Cofferer of the King’s Majesty’s most honourable Household, declared and appointed to be contained in his will these articles following, that is to wit:
First that his five youngest children (besides his son and heir), viz., Henry, Edmund, Mary, Anne and Margaret, shall have five hundred pounds in ready money, that is to say, every of them a hundred pound apiece, and if any of them die, then the survivor to have his part or her part equally divided between them, and the men-children’s portion to be delivered to them at th’ age of 18 years, and the daughters to have their part at their age of 15 years or days of marriage;
Item, that his two sons, Henry and Edmund, to be preferred to the two wards of the said John Ryther, Dorothy Pycher and Margery Pycher, if they can agree in marriage, and if they cannot, then the said two sons to have the benefit of the marriages [+of] the same wards; Item, that his executors shall take the profits of his lordship of Baltonsborough in the county of Somerset for the space of 14 years immediately after his decease towards the preferment of his testament and last will;
Item, maketh &(?) ordaineth Mary, his wife, John Wiseman of Much Canfield th’ elder, esquire, William Pomisett, esquire, Anthony Brigham, gentleman, and Edmund Felton, gentleman, his executors, & giveth to every of them for their pains £6 13s 4d apiece.
     John died before 5 November 1552 in London.
     His will was proved on 5 November 1552 at the Prerogative Court of Canterbury.
     John Ryther and Robert Ryther were 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
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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 there is 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 Edwards 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 yet 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 hee 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 gentelman 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 retornn 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 & thritieth 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 fot he 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 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.
He was mentioned as a former owner in a case between Sir Edmond Prideaux, Bart. (late Attorney-General), at the relation of Edwd. Keeling, Ralph Keeling, and John Bagnall. v. Tho. Martin, John King, George Close, Richd. Booth, John Beavell, Anthony Ball, Henry Foxwell, Thos. Goodson, Richd. Cope, Thos. Hooper, Robt. Grensted, William Grinsted, John Rush, Tho. Rush, John Hole, John Withers, Walter Warren, Peter Coward, Thos. Haines, Humf. Coward, Tho. Sevier, John Hooper, Nics. Rush, Richd. Haynes, Richd. Hayford, John Bridges, Thos. Grensted, John Hard, John Smith, Edwd. Cary.: Manor of Baltonsborough alias Balsboro' (Somerset), the woods belonging, the late monastery of Glastonbury, &c., &c. Common of pasture. Customs of manor. [Edwd. Seymour, Duke of Somerset, John Rither, and Wm. Hungate, former owners of the premises, are mentioned.]: Somerset.

Children of John Ryther

Children of John Ryther and Ann Hussey

John Ryther

(15 July 1752 - )
     John Ryther was also known as John Ryther (of Hull) in records. He was christened on 15 July 1752 in Holy Trinity, Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire. He was the son of Richard Ryther and Elizabeth Preston.

John Ryther

(before 1550 - 9 January 1573)
     John Ryther was also known as John Ryther (of Heckfield) in records. He was born before 1550 in Hampshire. He was the son of Unknown Ryther.
John Ryther married an unknown person before December 1572.
     John was buried on 9 January 1573 in Heckfield & Mattingley, Hampshire.

Children of John Ryther

John Ryther

     John Ryther paid tax on 1 hearth on 25 March 1672 in Follifoot, Yorkshire.
     John died in Follifoot, YKS.

John Ryther

(18 January 1679/80 - )
     John Ryther was christened on 18 January 1679/80 in St Peter, Leeds, Yorkshire. He was the son of Christopher Ryther.

John Ryther

(before 1723 - before 31 July 1723)
     John Ryther was also known as Ryder in records. He was born before 1723 in York, Yorkshire. He was the son of Thomas Ryther.
     John died before 31 July 1723 in York, Yorkshire. He was buried on 31 July 1723 in York.

John Ryther

(say 1430 - )
     John Ryther was born say 1430. He was the son of Gilbert Ryther.
John Ryther married Isabel Sutton.
John Ryther of Ottingham was a witness to a gift relating to property in Nuthill and near Hedon & Preston. Parties: 1) John Barnby, Halsam [Halsham] in Holdernesse [Holderness], gentleman 2) Sir John Constable, Burton Constable, John Kendale, esquire, Secretary to the King, Ralph Constable, esquire, Robert Barnby, esquire (father of John Barnby), Stephen Haytfeld senior, esquire, Henry Rokley, Ledes [Leeds?], esquire, John Forster, Rosse [Roos] in Holdernesse, a groom of the Crown, Oliver Barnby, chaplain, William Barnby (brother of John Barnby), William Flynton, Garton in Holdernesse, gentleman Property: moiety of the manor of Nuttyll [Nuthill] and of the lands, sometime of Sir Anthony Nuttyll, in Stokholm near Hedon and Preston in Holdernesse, which he had of the gift of Thomas Copley, lately rector of Catwyk [Catwick] To uses of his will made upon the making of this feoffment Witnesses: Robert Holme, son and heir of John Holme, Paul [Paull] Holme, esquire, John Ryther, Ottryngham [Ottringham], esquire, Thomas Hedon, Burton Constable, esquire, Walter Flinton, Garton, gentleman, Thomas Rosse, Rosse, gentleman Given at Nuttyll.
Gift relating to land in Winestead
Parties: 1) John Merton of Wynestead [Winestead] in Holdernesse and his son and heir Robert 2) Sir Robert Hilyerd of Wynested [Winestead] Property: five and a half acres in le Newclose at Weldale in [Winestead] Witnesses: John Ryther esquire, Robert Appulby, Thomas Wiresdale Includes 2 small seals: 'W' crowned.
This was followed by a quitclaim dated 30th April 1488. John Ryther was mentioned in a conveyance of property in 1519. Michaelmas, 11 Hen 8: Plaintiffs - William Grymston, etc. Deforciants John Wright and Alice his wife, one of the daughters of John Ryther, esq. re Messuage & 4 cottages with lands in Ottryngham, Wynested, etc.

Children of John Ryther and Isabel Sutton

John Ryther

(circa 1410 - after 1475)
     John Ryther was born circa 1410. He was the son of Sir William Ryther and Maud or Matilda de Umfreville.
     John died after 1475.

John Ryther

(before 1510 - 1583)
     John Ryther was also known as James Ryther (of Epworth) in records. He was born before 1510. He was the son of Thomas Ryther and Joan Unknown (Ryther).
     In Thomas Ryther's will dated 21 July 1531 in Epworth, John Ryther was named as executor of the estate.
John Ryther married Juliana Unknown (Ryther) before 1550.
     John Ryther made a will dated 28 May 1582 in Epworth, Lincolnshire. His will named his wife Julyan and his children, and made bequests to John & Ann Ryder, children of his brother Thomas.
     John died in 1583 in Epworth, Lincolnshire.

Children of John Ryther and Juliana Unknown (Ryther)

Children of John Ryther

John Ryther

(before 1530 - )
     John Ryther was born before 1530. He may be the John Wrythe who married Ann Ardington in Snaith in 1563. He was the son of Thomas Ryther and Margaret Unknown (Ryther).
     In Thomas Ryther's will dated between February 1550 and 3 October 1559 in Haxey, Lincolnshire, John Ryther was named as executor of the estate.

John Ryther

(April 1615 - )
     John Ryther was christened in April 1615 in Finchampstead, Berkshire. He was the son of Nicholas Ryther and Elizabeth Smeethe (Smith or Smythe?).

John Ryther

(say 1595 - 9 October 1634)
     John Ryther was born say 1595. There is no evidence for his parentage. He was the son of William Ryther.
John Ryther married Mary Clarke on 10 June 1616 in Finchampstead, Berkshire.
     John was buried on 9 October 1634 in Finchampstead, Berkshire.
     His will was proved in 1644? At Berkshire. John Rither, Finchampstead, 1630d, 1644.

Children of John Ryther and Mary Clarke

John Ryther

( - before 27 December 1561)
     John died before 27 December 1561 in Barkham, Berkshire. He was buried on 27 December 1561 in St James, Barkham.

John Ryther

( - between 1528 and 1529)
     John died between 1528 and 1529 in Yorkshire.

John Ryther

( - before 5 February 1499/0)
     John Ryther was also known as John Ryther (of Ottringham) in records.
     John died before 5 February 1499/0.
     John Ryther made a will dated 11 December 1599 in Ottingham, Yorkshire.

John Ryther

(circa 1540 - )
     John Ryther was born circa 1540.
John Ryther married Ann Ardington on 10 July 1563 in Snaith, Yorkshire.

John Ryther

(16 October 1579 - )
     John Ryther was christened on 16 October 1579 in Eversley, Hampshire. He was the son of Unknown Ryther (of Everlsey).

John Ryther

(30 May 1571 - )
     John Ryther was christened on 30 May 1571 in All Saints, Laleham, Surrey/Middlesex. He was the son of Henry Ryther (of Laleham) and Elizabeth Sallett.

John Ryther

(before 1632 - )
     John Ryther was born before 1632 in Yorkshire. He was the son of Christopher Ryther and Sybil Walker.

John Ryther

(before 1663 - )
     John Ryther was born before 1663.
John Ryther married Mary Skafe on 2 April 1684 in St James, Duke Place, London. Of Stepney parish (him?).

John Ryther

( - 15 February 1565)
     John was buried on 15 February 1565 in St Martin, Ironmonger Lane, London.

John Ryther

(5 July 1640 - 19 January 1641)
     John Ryther was christened on 5 July 1640 in St Peter, Leeds, Yorkshire. John, sonne of Ottiwell Ryder, of Quarie Hill. He was the son of Ottiwell Rider Ryther and Ellen/Ellenor Musgrave.
     John died on 19 January 1641.

John Ryther

( - before 5 February 1499/0)
     John Ryther made a will dated 11 December 1499.
     John died before 5 February 1499/0.
     His will was proved on 5 February 1499/0 in Prerogative Court, York.

Rev John Ryther

(before 1670 - 27 January 1704)
     Rev John Ryther was born before 1670 in England. He is probably the brother of Christopher Ryther who died in York in 1724 and therefore also sibling of Elizabeth Burnet, Lydia Nuttbrowne (Quaker) and Mary Ryther. He was the son of Rev John Ryther and Margaret Unknown.
The Dictionary of National Biography states: John Ryther (d. 1704), Independent minister, son of John Ryther, served as chaplain on ships trading to the East and West Indies. The journal he kept during his voyages from 1676 to 1681 was given to the antiquarian Ralph Thoresby by William Moult, the Independent minister at Leeds. In 1686 Ryther became minister of the Castle Gate Independent Church in Nottingham. For most of his career he co-operated amicably with the Nottingham Presbyterians. He joined with them in at least two ordinations, and had his children baptized by John Whitlock the elder, of the High Pavement Presbyterian Church. In A Defence of the Glorious Gospel (1703), however, Ryther threatened this harmony by accusing John Barret, the Nottingham Presbyterian, of Arminian errors. He also published a Sermon Preached before the Society of Reformation of Manners (1699). Ryther died at Nottingham on 27 January 1704. The name of Ryther's wife is not known, but his daughter Anne married Robert Kippis and was the mother of Andrew Kippis, the Unitarian divine and biographer. John was issued a marriage license on 20 February 1688 in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire.
Rev John Ryther married Sarah Unknown (Gibbs) on 21 February 1688 in Wilford, Nottinghamshire, England. John was a Presbyterian clergyman at Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England. He was probably the John Ryther who died 1704, son of the seaman's preacher John Ryther, who acted as chaplain of merchant ships trading to both the Indies and in 1689 became Minister at the Congregational church in Bridlesmith Gate Nottingham & 3 Oct 1689 in Castle Gate.
See Oxford Dictionary of National bBiography for further information: www.oxforddnb.com/.
     John died on 27 January 1704 in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire. John Ryther, minister of High Pavement Presbyterians, Nottingham.

Children of Rev John Ryther and Sarah Unknown (Gibbs)

Rev John Ryther

(circa 1634 - June 1681)
      He was a nonconformist divine, son of John Ryther (d.1673) a tanner. His father became a leader among the Quakers at York.
See Oxford Dictionary of National Biography for further information: www.oxforddnb.com/.
The Dictionary of National Biography states: Ryther, John (1631x5-1681), clergyman and ejected minister, the son of John Rither (d. 1673), a tanner of York who later turned Quaker, was born in Yorkshire. There is uncertainty over his date of birth: he was said to be forty-nine when he died in 1681, suggesting that he was born in 1631 or 1632, but his reported age of fifteen at matriculation would suggest 1634 or 1635. Educated at Leeds grammar school, he entered Cambridge on 25 March 1650, aged fifteen, as a sizar at Sidney Sussex College. From 25 March 1655 until his ejection in 1660 he was vicar of Frodingham, including Bromby, Lincolnshire. He then obtained the vicarage of North Ferriby, Yorkshire, only to be turned out by the Act of Uniformity in 1662. He continued to preach in his house at Brough, in the neighbouring parish of Elloughton, and for this spent several months confined in York Castle. Forced from home by the Five Mile Act in 1666, he eventually settled as pastor of the Independent church at Bradford-dale in 1668. In the following year he preached there as well as at the Halifax chapelries of Cross Stone, Sowerby, and Coley, for which he was again imprisoned. In 1669 he sought refuge in London. His new flock, which included many sailors, built him a meeting-house at Wapping, Middlesex, where he was ordained an Independent minister on 6 February 1670. Almost immediately he was convicted for illegal preaching; warrants were issued against him but he managed to escape. The sailors became so devoted to the Seaman's Preacher, as Ryther was known, that they reportedly prevented his apprehension by intimidating the arresting officers.
Ryther published numerous works between 1672 and 1680, including The Morning Seeker (1673), a series of sermons on the advantages of early religion. In dedicating this to the godly Lady Dorothy Norcliffe of Langton, Yorkshire, and her daughters, Lady Elizabeth Bright and Lady Katherine Wentworth, Ryther acknowledged the support they had given him and other ejected ministers. In addition to A Funeral Sermon (1674) for his close friend James Janeway, the Presbyterian minister at Rotherhithe, Surrey, Ryther edited Janeway's posthumous Legacy to his Friends, Containing Twenty-Seven Instances of Sea-Dangers and Deliverances (1675). Ryther's best-known work, A Plat for Mariners (1672, 1675, 1780, 1803), several sermons on Jonah's voyage, included an epistle by Janeway. The evangelical John Newton (1727–1807), himself a former sailor, added a preface in 1780. Ryther aimed at a popular rather than scholarly audience. Employing an affecting style which earned him the nickname Crying Jeremy, he pleaded with sinners to awaken from their spiritual lethargy and respond to Christ's call while there was still time.
Ryther and his wife, Margaret, who survived him, had one son,
John [see below], and a daughter, Rachel Dale. He died in June 1681, leaving his house in Stepney, Middlesex, to his son. He remembered his ‘honoured mother’ with 20s. a year for life (PRO, PROB 11/367, fol. 130). He was buried in his chapel in Wapping. Shortly after his death, government informers reported finding a supply of guns and powder hidden near ‘Ryder's’ meeting-house, though whether he was at all linked to this cache is not known (CSP dom., 1680–81, 365).
Jim Benedict
Sources
Calamy rev., 421 · Greaves & Zaller, BDBR, 127 · E. Calamy, ed., An abridgement of Mr. Baxter's history of his life and times, with an account of the ministers, &c., who were ejected after the Restauration of King Charles II, 2nd edn, 2 vols. (1713), vol. 2, pp. 448, 833 · B. Dale, Yorkshire puritanism and early nonconformity, ed. T. G. Crippen [n.d., c.1909], 134–5 · J. Ryther, ‘preface’, The morning seeker (1673) · Ryther's will, PRO, PROB 11/367, sig. 111 · CSP dom., 1663–4, 300; 1680–81, 365 · A. Gordon, ed., Freedom after ejection: a review (1690–1692) of presbyterian and congregational nonconformity in England and Wales (1917) · G. F. Nuttall, ‘The emergence of nonconformity’, in G. F. Nuttall and others, The beginnings of nonconformity (1964), 9–32, 16 · D. L. Wykes, ‘After the happy union: presbyterians and Independents in the provinces’, Unity and diversity in the church, ed. R. N. Swanson, SCH, 32 (1996), 283–95 · The nonconformist's memorial … originally written by … Edmund Calamy, ed. S. Palmer, [3rd edn], 3 (1803), 463–4 · J. G. Miall, Congregationalism in Yorkshire (1868), 240 · The Rev. Oliver Heywood … his autobiography, diaries, anecdote and event books, ed. J. H. Turner, 2 (1883), 289–90, 295 · A. R. Henderson, History of the Castle Gate Congregational Church, Nottingham 1655–1905 (1905), 139–50 · R. Thoresby, Ducatus Leodiensis, or, The topography of … Leedes (1715), 526 · J. H. Turner, T. Dickenson, and O. Heywood, eds., The nonconformist register of baptisms, marriages, and deaths (1881), 138, 140 · W. Wilson, The history and antiquities of the dissenting churches and meeting houses in London, Westminster and Southwark, 4 vols. (1808–14), vol. 4, p. 103 · Venn, Alum. Cant.
Archives
BL, sermon notes, Add. MS 45671, fols. 8b–57b · BL, sermon notes, Add. MS 45675, fols. 5–194b
Wealth at death
‘goods and chattels’ to wife; house; library; 20s. in mourning gifts; 20s. p.a. to mother: will, PRO, PROB 11/367, sig. 111, proved 19 July 1681
Jim Benedict, ‘Ryther, John (1631x5-1681)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004
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Rev John Ryther married Margaret Unknown. Rev John Ryther was born circa 1634 in York, Yorkshire. He was the son of John Ryther and Frances Unknown (Ryther).
     John was educated at Leeds Grammar School, Yorkshire.
     John matriculated at Cambridge University on 25 March 1650. John Ryther, admitted sizar (aged 15) at Sidney (Sussex) College, 25 Mar 1650, son of John currier. Born at York, school - Leeds (Mr Garnet). Matric 1650. Vicar of Frodingham Lincs; ejected 1660. Vicar of Nrth Ferriby Yks, till ejected 1662. Afterwards preacher at York, Bradford & London. Seaman's preacher. Author, religious. John was a clergyman. He held the vicarage of Frodingham (inc. Bromby) in Lincolnshire from which he was ejected ... He retired to York but soon obtained the vicarage of North Ferriby, Yks but resided at Brough in the neighbouring parish of Elloughton. ... He was called the seaman's preacher. His son John (d.1704) acted as chaplain of merchant ships trading to both the Indies and in 1689 became Minister at the Congregational church in Bridlesmith Gate, Nottingham & on 3 Oct 1689 in Castle Gate.
     John died in June 1681 in Yorkshire.

Children of Rev John Ryther and Margaret Unknown

Rev John Ryther

(before 1485 - )
     Rev John Ryther was also known as Ryder in records. He was born before 1485.
John Ryther, of Hull, clerk. v. John Herman: Refusal to hand over a debt recovered for complainant.: York. . Chancery pleadings addressed to the Archbishop of Canterbury as Lord Chancellor [John Morton 1486-1493 or William Warham 1504-1515]. Date range: 1486 - 1515. John was a clergyman at Thorner, Yorkshire, in 1519. He witnessed a will as John Ryder, vicar of Thorner in 1519.