Three Hundred Years of a Family Living; Being a History of the Rilands of Sutton Coldfield (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER II. The Rtland Famtly. JOHN RILAND, who thus became Rector of Sutton and Patron of the Advowson, was grandson of a yeoman on the borders of Gloucestershire, where that county interlaces its boundaries with the shires of Warwick, Worcester, and Oxford. Over, or Upper, Quinton, at which the Riland family dwelt, is only five or six miles from Stratford-on-Avon, and in the immediate neighbourhood of Pebworth, Marston, and Welford, villages handed down to fame by Shakespeare's jingling quatrain. From the same stock as that branch of the family whose fortunes we are following are derived also those of the orthography of Ryland and Rylands, of whom not a few descendants in Warwick, Northampton, Birmingham, and Bristol have been known to fame. The father of the Rector of Sutton Coldfield, however, spelled his patronymic with an "i," only varying the word Riland by an occasional "e" final. He was born in 1619, and after a pupilage at the Stratford Grammar School, under Dr. Trapp, "in piety and learning second to none," he was, while still in his 14th year, entered at Magdalen Hall, Oxford, then literally It is possible that they might all trace their origin to the Rylands of the Ryelands within Westhoughton, Co. Lancaster, of whom an interesting account was printed by Mr. J. Paul Rylands, in the "Genealogist, ' 1880, but at any rate a relationship between the midland county branches was recognised. (See Appendix.) under the wing of Magdalen College, to which he eventually attained on being elected upon the foundation in 1641; not long before the "evil days" of civil contention. In spite of his submission to the Parliamentary visitors, he was turned out of his fellowship, and of the small Crown living of Exhall, near Alcester, in 1647, and had a narrow esca...