EVIDENCES RELATING TO EAST HULL. 43 



For clearness, and also because of the interest which is 

 given to the story, places and persons must be associated 

 together. The following were the lords of the undivided 

 manor as it descended from father to son ; all were of 

 knightly rank : — 



Siward, living in the time of the Conqueror. 



Sayer de Sutton ist, "the ould lord Sayer." 



William, mentioned in 1173. 



Amandus, mentioned in 1187 and 1195. 



Sayer 2nd, the King's Bailiff of the Port of Hull, 



mentioned as earl)' as 121 1. 

 Sayer 3rd succeeded about 1250. 

 Sayer 4th succeeded about 1270.* 

 John de Sutton, senior, 1289. 

 John de Sutton, junior, 1339. 

 Thomas, the brother of John, 1356. He died between 



1 38 1 and 1389, when his daughters, Constance 



Marjory, and Agnes, divided his manors and 



lands. 



The berewic was acquired from the College of St. John 

 at an early date, on the nominal rent of one pepper corn, 

 by the family of de Melsa, or Meaux, living at Bewick, in 

 Aldboro. They held it until, in 1377, John de Meaux, the 

 last male, died, and his sister Alice, who married Sir Ralf 

 de Hastings, succeeded. Then the berewic passed into a 

 family whose prominence in those times was very likely 

 to be fatal. The grandson of Sir Ralf and Alice was Sir 

 William de Hastings — created a baron — the Chamberlain 

 and friend of Edward IV., with whom he landed at Raven- 

 spur in 1 47 1, and on whose death Hastings was promptly 

 executed by order of Richard III. In his will he mentions 

 his "manor" of Sutton, and afterwards we hear no more of 

 a berewic. It is a pity that the lords of manor and berewic 

 never quarrelled, for else we should have learned more about 

 them and their lands. 



Sayer de Sutton the second, the first and last man of real 

 mark in the family, Bailiff to the King for the port at the 

 river's mouth, a strong, high-handed man, always struggling 

 with his neighbours or his superiors, often in the right, 

 paying the penalty when in the wrong, was a commanding 

 influence over East Hull in the early years of Henry III. 



* A deed quoted herein is evidence that the date of 1289, given in 

 Frost's " Notices," is erroneous. 



