The Battle Abbey Roll. Vol. III.
by
The Duchess of Cleveland.

Prepared by Michael A. Linton
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Risers : originally Richer. "Ricardus Risher" occurs in the Norman Exchequer Rolls of 1195; and the name still existed in the fifteenth century.—Nobiliaire de Normandie. In England, we find Robert, Thomas, and Walter Richer mentioned in the Hundred Rolls, about 1272, as landowners in Kent; William Richer in Yorkshire; Ralph Richer in Gloucestershire; and Hugh and Henry Fitz Richer in Norfolk. In the latter county the name still continued in the seventeenth century; for Morant tells us that "Thomas Richers of Fringe in Norfolk bought Ashdown of the Bramstons in 1679." A branch settled in Kent, where Robert Richers of Wrotham, "descended from an ancient family of Swanington, Hall, Norfolk" occurs about 1570.—Archaeologia Cantiana, The arms are given: "three annulets, two and one, for Richars." John Richer, in 1253, held of the Barony of Chilham.—Ibid. The earliest mention I have found of them is in the Domesday of Ralph de Diceto, a.d. 1181, when "Richer" is entered as a tenant of the Chapter of St. Pauls.