Robert Ryece (1555–1638) was an English antiquary who wrote A Breviary of Suffolk in 1618, a book which was not published until 1902.
[1] Ryece's family are recorded living in Preston St Mary, a village in Babergh Hundred, Suffolk since the fifteenth century, owning the manor house Preston Hall.
Lord Francis Hervey edited its publication in 1902 after Mrs Salmon had transcribed the original manuscript.
The transcription preserved the original spelling, punctuation, and syntax, although they diverged from common usage.
Hervey opined that such vagaries did not obscure the meaning and indeed leant the book a "not unpleasing sense of quaintness redolent of his time and his surroundings".