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siderable manufactory of linen; 56 miles north-west of 
Jaroslav. 
RYBOLYCZE, a small town of Austrian Poland, 23 miles 
east-south-east of Przemysl. 
RYBURGH, Great and Little, two adjoining pa¬ 
rishes of England, in Norfolk, about 4 miles south-east of 
Fakenham. 
RYCHOOR, a town of Hindostan, province of Beja- 
pore. It is a place of considerable extent, and surrounded 
by a brick-wall, with round towers. It was for some time 
in the last century the residence of the nabob Dara Jah, ne¬ 
phew of the late Nizam. It now belongs to the British. 
Lat. 15. 59. N. long. 77. 17. E. 
RYCKE (Theodore de), a learned critic, born at Arn- 
heim, in 1640; was first an advocate at the Hague, and 
then professor of history at the university of Leyden. In 
1681, he delivered an oration “ De Gigantibus,” which, 
with a dissertation “ De Primis Italiae Colonis et iEneae 
adventu,” he added to an edition of Stephanus Byzantinus 
and Scymmus Chius, Lugd. Bat. 1684. He also published 
a valuable-edition of Tacitus, with notes and illustrations, 
in 1687, in 2 vols. 12mo. He died in 1690. 
RYCQUIUS (Justus), was born at Ghent, in 1587, and 
educated at Douay. From this place he travelled into Italy, 
and was for some time librarian to count Lodovico Sahero. 
Returning to the Low Countries, he was made canon of 
Ghent, and resided some time at Louvain. In 1624, he was 
appointed by Urban VIII. to the chair of eloquence in the 
university of Bologna, where he died in 1627. He pub¬ 
lished a number of Latin poems, and other works, but is 
chiefly known by his treatise “ De Capitolio Romano,” 
1617, containing a description of the works of art, ancient 
and modern, preserved in that relic of antiquity. This per¬ 
formance obtained for him the title of a Roman citizen. 
It was reprinted at Leyden by Gronovius, in 1696, with 
notes and plates. Gen. Biog. 
RYCZWAL, a small town in the interior of Poland, on 
the Vistula; 23 miles north-by-east of Radom. 
RYDAL, a fertile valley of England, in the North 
Riding of Yorkshire, in which there are above 20 churches. 
It is so named from the river Rye, Ridale, or Risdale, 
which, passing through it, runs into the Swale, near Rich¬ 
mond. 
RYDAL, a village of England, in the county of West¬ 
moreland ; 2 miles from Ambleside, noted for the beautiful 
lake of Rydal water, a little to the west of Ambleside: this 
is about one mile in length. Its surface is varied with nu¬ 
merous little islands, and it communicates by a narrow 
channel with Grassmere water, to the west, and by the river 
Rothav, with Windermere water, to the south. 
RYDE. See Ride. 
RYDER (Sir Dudley), was born in the year 1691, 
and having received a good elementary education, he was 
brought up to the profession of the law. It may be observed, 
that the family from which the subject of this article was 
descended, had been very long established in Yorkshire, 
and took their name from Ryther, in the hundred of Bark- 
ston, in that county, hence the name has been written dif¬ 
ferently at different periods, as Rythre, Ryther, or Ryder. 
It appears from Dugdale’s Baronage, that William de Ryther 
was summoned to, parliament among the barons of the realm, 
from the 21st of Edward I. till the 1st of Edward II., and 
that he was succeeded by John de Rythre, governor of 
Shipton castle. Sir Dudley Ryder was appointed solicitor- 
general to his majesty George II. in 1733; in 1736 he was 
advanced to the office of attorney-general, and in 1754 he 
was appointed to the high office of lord chief justice of the 
court of King’s Bench. In the year 1756, his majesty, as a 
reward for his long and very faithful services, determined to 
advance him to the dignity of the peerage,' by the title of 
Lord Ryder, baron of Harrowby in Leicestershire, and a 
warrant was accordingly signed by the king for that purpose, 
on the 24th May; but Sir Dudley died on the following 
day, before the patent could be completed. He left a son, 
Nathaniel, the first lord who was so created in 1776. He 
RYE 
died in 1803, and was succeeded by his eldest son, Dudley* 
the present lord. 
RYDER, or Ruyder, a gold coin in Holland, worth 
11. 4s. 10cl. 
RYDROOG, a district of Hindostan, province of Bija- 
nagur. This district was taken possession of in the end of 
the 16th century, by the Delawai, or minister of the rajah 
of Bijanagur, after the defeat of that prince by the Mahome¬ 
tan powers. In the year 1766, it was subdued by Hyder 
Aly; and at the peace of 1792, was ceded to the Nizam; 
but in the year 1800, was made over to the British, and is 
now included in the collectorship of Bellary. 
RYDROOG, the capital of the above-mentioned district, 
and a fortress of some consequence. Although the district 
had been subdued by Hyder Aly in 1766, and the chief 
compelled to become a tributary, he was nevertheless allow¬ 
ed to retain his capital; but the unfeeling Tippoo seized on 
it by stratagem, while the unfortunate chief was serving with 
his quota of troops in the army of the tyrant. Lat. 14. 19. 
N. long. 77. 2. E. 
RYE, a small river of Scotland, in Ayrshire, which, 
after a short course, falls into the Garnock, half a mile above 
the village of Dairy. 
RYE, a market town and borough of England, in the 
counly of Sussex, and one of the Cinque Ports. It is situa¬ 
ted on the coast of the British channel, on an eminence at 
the mouth of the river Rother. The town in general is 
regular and well built; the houses are of brick ; most of them 
command delightful prospects of the sea. The church dedi¬ 
cated to St. Mary, is built of stone, and is reckoned one of 
the largest parish churches in the kingdom. There are, 
besides, in the town, meeting-houses for Methodists, Quakers, 
Baptists, and other dissenters, and a chapel for a colony of 
French refugees, who settled in the town and neighbour¬ 
hood during the last war. There are also two free schools. 
One of which was erected and endowed by a Mr. Peacock, 
in the year 1644, and the other by a Mr. Saunders at a 
later period. The only monastic establishment in Rye was 
a priory of Augustine friars, which existed before' the time 
of Edward III. and flourished till the general dissolution of 
religious houses, by Henry VIII. The church of this mo¬ 
nastery is still standing, having been converted into a store¬ 
house for mercantile goods. In the centre of the principal 
street stands the market-house, the higher story of which is 
used as a town-hall. Rye carries on a considerable trade, 
chiefly in hops, wool, timber, kettles, cannon, chimney 
backs, and other iron goods from the works at Beckley and 
at Breed. Seven sloops belonging to the town are pretty 
constantly engaged in the conveyance of chalk from the cliffs 
near East Bourne, for the purpose of being burned into lime. 
The herring and mackarel fisheries are also prosecuted to a 
great extent, and the trawling for flat fish. The mackarel 
and herrings caught here are reckoned the finest of the kind 
brought to the London Market. The harbour of Rye lies to 
the south-east of the town. The old harbour having become 
nearly choaked up with sand, partly on that account, and 
partly to gain a quantity of marsh land, it was determined 
to form a new one, by cutting a large canal in a more direct 
line to the sea. This plan was carried into effect some years 
ago, and vessels of about, 200 tons now come up to the 
quay on the north side of the town, a mile and a half from 
the entrance. A great improvement was made by a dam of 
peculiar construction, thrown across the old channel, and 
contrived by the Reverend Daniel Pape. Still, however, 
the harbour is but in an indifferent state; at spring tides, 
the sea rises so high as nearly to surround the town with 
water. Rye is a member of the Cinque Ports, subordinate 
to Hastings. It is a borough by prescription, as well as by 
several charters granted to confirm its privileges. The cor¬ 
poration consists of a mayor, bailiff, jurats, and freemen. 
It sends two members to parliament, who are elected by the 
mayor and freemen inhabiting the borough, and paying scot 
and lot. Rye is a place of great antiquity, but its early his¬ 
tory is little known. It appears clearly to have been one of 
the original Cinque Ports, and is mentioned as a member of 
them 
