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John Riland

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John Riland was an English Anglican priest in the 17th century.[1]

Riland was born in Gloucestershire and educated at Magdalen College, Oxford.[2] He held livings in Exhall and Birmingham. He was Archdeacon of Coventry from 1661 until his death on 3 March 1673.[3]

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  1. ^ Early English Books
  2. ^ Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714, Rabbetts-Rhodes
  3. ^ Horn, Joyce M. (1992), Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857, vol. 7, p. 114