John Taylor, who was appointed to that office on the 27th June 1526, and held it until 1534.
Rolte John, yeoman of the Leshe, 75, 163, 263.
A kind of Target at which arrows were shot, both for practice and amusement. Cavendish says, that when he was sent for by Henry to Hampton Court, after the death of Cardinal Wolsey, "I found him shooting _at the rounds_ in the park on the backside of the garden, and perceiving him occupied in shooting, thought it not my duty to trouble him, but leaned to a tree intending to stand there, and to attend his gracious pleasure. Being in a great study, at the last the King came suddenly behind me where I stood, and clapped his hand upon my shoulder, and when I perceived him, I fell upon my knee. To whom he said calling me by name, 'I will,' quoth he, 'make an end of my game, and then I will talk with you,' and so departed to his mark, whereat the game was ended. Then the king delivered his bow unto the yeoman of his bows and went his way inward to the palace." _Ed. Singer_, 1815, vol. i. p. 328.
Rowed, to the men that rowed the king, 127, _bis_.
Rowland ----, a keeper of Waltham Forest, 72.
Rowme, to Rutter, for his fee due for his rowme in Windsor Forest, 286.
Rowme appears to have been a common expression for "place," or "situation," thus in Lodge's _Illustrations_, in a letter dated 28th April, 1516, "The Master of the Rolles is departed, and Doctor Tunstalle hath his _rowme_, as the saying is." Vol. i. p. 9. The fee in question was due to him by virtue of office, which was that of keeper of Windsor Forest.
Ancestor of the Dukes of Bedford, and founder of the honors of that illustrious family. He was created Baron Russell of Cheymes, on the 9th March 1538, was a Knight of the Garter, Lord Admiral, and Lord Privy Seal, and in 1549, was raised to the Earldom of Bedford.
Wife of Sir John Russell just mentioned. She was the daughter and co-heiress of Sir Guy Sapcotes, Knight, and widow of Sir John Broughton, of Teddington, in the county of Bedford.
Rutter William, one of the keepers of Windsor Forest, 40, 180, 286.
Rye and Hastings, for a plat of, 91. See PLAT.
Rye was at that time a sea-port of some importance, and maintained several ships of war. In Lodge's _Illustrations_, vol. i. p. 63, is a letter from the Privy Council, dated in 1544, in which the following passage occurs: "The town of Rye hath all this year had iij or iiij vessells abrode for the warres, and gayned very moche by it."