EVIDENCES RELATING TO EAST HULL. 5 1 



The house which the Spyvees leased from the Burtons, 

 built before 1690, with its ornamental gables, stood next to 

 the soap-house, but has disappeared. Hither John Spyvee 

 brought his business of a "roper" from Goole way, becoming 

 a Freeman of Hull in 1722, but the burial, in 1718, of a 

 ''band-maker" at Sutton, seems to suggest an earlier date. 



SEVENTEENTH CENTURY HOUSE OF THE GUNBVS, BURTONS, AND SPYVEES. 



His son Samuel, and his grandson Samuel, followed him as 

 lessees under the Burtons, heirs of the Gunbys, and then the 

 chief proprietors here. They had farm buildings at the back, 

 also tillage in the Clough Field, and pasturage in Summer- 

 gangs. In 1748, the "Greaves, or Groves" in front, 

 extending to the river side, were under a short lease to 

 Edward Hodgson, whose family was coming into prominence. 

 I n J 774. Samuel Spyvee, junior, bought the house and rope- 



