Rylstone, Yorkshire, England. Further historical information.

RYLSTONE

RYLSTONE, in the parish of Burnsall, east-division of Staincliffe, liberty of Clifford's-Fee; (the seat of Richard Waddilove, Esq.) 4 miles from Gargrave, 5 from Skipton, 10 from Kettlewell, 14 from Settle. Pop. 145. Here is a Chapel of Ease to Burnsall, dedicated to Saint Peter.

Rilston, or Rilliston, gave name and habitation to a family perhaps of the first antiquity of Craven; as there is reason to suppose that William de Risletona, who occurs in the first charters of Cecelia de Romille, was the William, son of Clarenbald, mentioned in the black book of the exchequer, and undoubtedly a Saxon. The manor continued in the hands of the Rilstones, till Isabella, daughter and heiress of John Rillestone, married Miles, son of Walkin Radcliffe of Todmorden, a descendant of whom married John Norton, father of Richard Norton, who was attainted for high treason. Among the old tenants on this estate, mention is made of one "Richard Kitchen, butler to Mr. Norton, who rose in rebellion with his master, and was executed at Ripon."

Mr. Wordsworth lately published a poem, entitled "The White Doe of Rilston" it relates to a white Doe, which tradition says, for a long time "made a weekly pilgrimage from hence, over the fells of Bolton, and was constantly found in the Abbey church yard, during divine service; after which she returned home as regularly as the rest of the congregation."