 Another story about him is reported by Thomas Fuller in his "Worthies of England,", which describes a reputable English gentleman who reported having seen a record in the island of Malta which stated that Ripley gave the enormous sum of one hundred thousand pounds sterling annually to the Knights of that island and of Rhodes to support their war against the Turks.Ripley is known as the "Canon of Bridlington".He spent his later years as an anchorite near Boston (Yorkshire).