Venn: HILDYARD, CHRISTOPHER. Adm. pens, (age 16) at PETERHOUSE, June 10, 1653. Of Yorkshire. Probably s. of Leonard,
of Skeffling, Yorks. School, Lund, Yorks. Matric. 1655; Scholar; B.A. 1656-7; M.A. 1661 (Lit. Reg.). R. of Routh,
Yorks., 1661-1712. Buried there, May 19, 1712. (Vis. of Yorks, 1665; Poulson, Holderness, ii. 498; T. A. Walker.)