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the ancient and modern fortifications is well known, chiefly 

 through the researches of Mr. E. S. Wilson, F.S.A.,* I need 

 only refer to the condition of the adjacent lands, quoting" 

 chiefly from Wills at York, from the "East Riding Registry," 

 and from private documents kindly shown to me. 



In 1659, Joseph Blaides left to his son William a close, 

 adjoining unto the Block House, containing twelve acres in 

 Drypoole.-|- His descendants had ten acres there, with 

 three tenements. In 1709, Mrs. Ann Watson conveyed to 

 Alderman Collings Block House Close, of six acres, on the 

 south side of Block House Lane. Captain Phillip's map 

 of 1720 shews a stable of Alderman Collings', where now 

 runs Great Union Street. This street was laid out in 1801, 

 when the North Block House was removed, but there was 

 previously there a way into Drypool. In 1744, William 

 Burton, of Hotharn, the heir to his great uncle, Christopher 

 Gunby, sold to John Jones, house carpenter, and Thomas 

 Ward, bricklayer, his cottage, with garth of an acre in the 

 parish of Sutton, "at the going in to the town of Drypool, 

 from Hull, at the north-west end of the town of Drypool, 

 and abutting on the highway which leads from Hull to Dry- 

 pool." J In 1768, Thomas Broadley acquired from Matthew 

 Henry Witham, together with a share in the manor, land 

 near to the North Bridge, and south of "Bridge-Foot, 

 otherwise Witham." I think this new name came from his 

 father, Henry Witham, whose aunt, the widow of Thomas 

 Dalton, had left her late husband's property in Sutton to her 

 own family. From that time building went on over this 

 corner of Sutton parish, leaving a large vacant space in the 

 centre of it, known as the " Muck-Garth," and used as such 

 without much protest until the Cholera epidemic of 1849. 



There was in Bridge-Foot, probably on both sides, waste 

 land of the manor. When buildings sprung up, John 

 Collings and others paid rents to the lord. Edward Johnson 



* "Statement as to the Title to the Citadel and Fortifications of Kings- 

 ton-upon-Hull." And see also a very interesting paper on " The Castle 

 of Kingston-upon-Hull," by Mr. Joseph H. Hirst, M.S.A., in the Tran- 

 sactions of the East Riding Antiquarian Society. 



t The name of Block House Lane seemed to cling to the locality. 

 In Baines' Directory, of 1823, the map applies it to Naylor's Row. A 

 Sugar House conveyance, of 1825, mentions, I think in error, "Lime 

 Street, formerly called Block House Lane." 



X A Fine (Trinity Term 8 Wm. III.) in which Christopher and Robert 

 Gunby were plaintiffs shews that the family held lands in Sutton, Stone- 

 ferry, Southcoates, and Drypool as early as 1696, but I think the name 

 was then somewhat recent. 



