Background
He was son of Thomas, and grandson of John Ryves of Damory Court, Dorset.
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Bruno Ryves
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He was educated at Oxford, subscribing as a clerk of New College in 1610. He graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1616, and in the following year became a clerk of Magdalen College, proceeding Master of Arts
Career
Both Ryves"s Christian name and surname were variously spelled by his contemporaries: Brune, Bruen, Brian, Bruno. And Reeves, Rives, Ryve, Reeve, and Ryves. 9 June 1619, Bachelor of Divinity 20 June 1632, and Doctor of Divinity 25 June 1639.
He was admitted of Gray"s Inn in 1634.
In the meantime he was instituted to the vicarage of Stanwell in Middlesex, where he made a name by his preaching. He obtained in September 1628 the additional benefice of Saint Martin-le-Vintry.
About 1640 he became chaplain to Charles I. The inhabitants of Stanwell petitioned against him in July 1642: he was deprived of his benefices, and a parliamentary preacher appointed. He was expelled with his family, but sheltered by Lord Arundell at Wardour Castle.
A patent of June 1646 created him dean of Chichester, but he remained dependent on charity at Shafton in Dorset until after 1649, when he made at least one journey abroad, bearing to Charles II some money which had been collected among his adherents.
At the Restoration he was in July 1660 installed dean of Chichester and master of the hospital there. He was also sworn chaplain-in-ordinary to the king, and appointed dean of Windsor (and Wolverhampton), being installed on 3 September 1660. He became scribe of the order of the Garter the following January.
As administrator of the charity of the poor knights of Windsor, he had to deal with the appeals of decayed royalists.
He was presented to the rectories of Haseley, Oxfordshire, and Acton, in Middlesex. In January 1662, when there was unseasonable hot weather, he preached to the House of Commons at Saint Margaret"s, on Joshua vii.
12, showing how the neglect of exacting justice on offenders was a cause of God"s punishing a land. Practising what he preached, he had his curate at Acton harass Richard Baxter, who was drawing large audiences in defiance of the conventicle acting
Baxter was eventually imprisoned for six months, causing Ryves damage with a reputation as embittered.
Ryves died at Windsor on 13 July 1677, and was buried in the south aisle of Saint George"s Chapel.
