Bruno Ryves

kinsman to Dr. Tho. Ryves mentioned under the year 1651. p. 83. was born in Dorsetshire, made one of the Clerks of New Coll. in 1610, where continuing till he was Bach. of Arts, became one of the Chaplains of Magd. Coll. 1616. Soon after he proceeded in Arts, became a most noted and florid Preacher, Vicar of Stanwell in Middlesex, Rector of St. Martins de le Vintry in London, Chaplain to his Maj. Ch. 1. and in 1639 proceeded Doct. of Div. But the Rebellion breaking out soon after, he was sequestred of his Rectory by the Presbyterians, plunder’d and forced to fly; and at length losing his Vicaridge, he shifted from place to place, and by the favour of his Majesty had the Deanery of Chichester and the Mastership of the Hospital there, conferr’d upon him, tho little or no profit accrued thence till after the restauration of K. Ch. 2. About which time being sworn Chaplain in ord. to him, had the Deanery of Windsore confer’d on him, in which he was installed 3 Sept. 1660, and so consequently was Dean of Wolverhampton in Staffordshire. Afterwards he became Rector of Acton in Middlesex, was sworn Scribe of the most noble order of the Garter, 14 Jan. 1660, and about that time was made Rector of Haseley near to, and in the County of, Oxford; which, I think, is annexed to his Deanery, as the Deanery of Wolverhampton is, but all separated by Mr. Baxter ((*))((*)) In his Additional notes on the life and death of Sir Matt. Hale &c. Lond. 1682. oct. pag. 25. thereby to make him a great Pluralist, without any consideration had to his great sufferings occasion’d by the Presbyterians. He hath written,

Mercurius Rusticus: or, the Countries complaint, recounting the sad events of this unparralel’d Warr.—Which Mercuries, in number at least 19, commencing from 22 Aug. 1642, came out in one sheet, sometimes in two, in qu.

Merc. Rustic. The second part, in number 5, giving an account of Sacriledges in, and upon, several Cathedrals.—After the Warr was ended, all these Mercuries were pr. an. 1646 and 47. in oct. and had to them added (1) A general bill of mortality of the Clergy of London, &c. Or, a brief martyrologie and catalogue of the learned, grave, religious, painful Ministers of the City of Lond. who have been imprison’d, plundered, &c. for their constancy to the Protestant Religion and their Loyalty, from 1641 to 1647, about which time it came out by it self in one sheet only, pr. on one side. (2) Querela Cantabrigiensis: or, a Remonstrance by way of Apology for the banished members of the flourishing University of Cambridge. Written by a member thereof. (3) Micro-Chronicon: or, a brief Chronologie of the time and place of the Battles, Sieges, Conflicts, and other remarkable passages, which have hapned betwixt his Majesty and the Parliament, from the beginning of the unhappy dissentions to the 25 of Mar. 1647. Which Micro-Chron. I take to be written by our Author Ryves, and to have been partly collected by him from Englands Iliads in a Nu [•] shell, written by George Wharton. (4) A Catalogue of the names of all, or most part of, the Lords, Knights, Commanders and Persons of Quality slain, or executed by law martial, on both sides, from the beginning of this unnatural War, to the 25 of Mar. 1647. This also I take to be collected by Ryves. The Reader may be pleased now to take notice, that that edition of Merc. Rusticus which came out in 1647, had more in it than that of 1646. However Rich. Royston the Bookseller being minded to make another edition, he followed only that which came out in 1646. so that the third edit. which he made in 1685 hath less in it than that of 1647. Dr. Ryves hath also written and published

Several sermons, as (1) Serm. on 1 Tim. 6.10.—Pr. in qu. 1652. (2) Fun. Serm. on 2 Tim. 4.7.—Pr. 1656. qu. (3) Serm. before the H. of Commons, 15 Jan. 1661.—Whether printed I know not as yet, for I have not seen it. He died at Windsore on the 13 day of July in sixteen hundred seventy and seven,1677. and was buried in the Alley or Isle joyning on the south side to his Majesty’s Chappel of S. George there. Over his grave is this inscription engraven on a marble table fastned to the south Wall. Brunus Ryves S. Theologiae Professor, Reg. majestati à sacris, liberarum Windsorensis & Wolverhamptonensis capellarum, à restitutione sereniss. Caroli 2. Regis Decanus primus; nobilissimi ordinis à Periscelide Scriba,