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walk, but Sutton Drain had before then cut off the further 

 end of the land on which Pemberton Street was laid out. 

 Rope-making was continued by Samuel Spyvee Cooper, but 

 the builder was inevitable. There was, to the last,' an 

 old wooden bridge over the water, not quite reaching the 

 eastern bank ; the gap could be temporarily spanned when 

 a rope for a deep mine was being made, and the rope would 

 then be extended even along Pemberton Street. Spyvee 

 Street now commemorates this old family. Their memorials 

 are to be found at Drypool Church, which attracted this 

 growing neighbourhood until 1844, when it was provided 

 with the new Church of St. Mark's in its own parish. 



In 1787, the next plot in Brick Kilns, before owned by 

 Idell and by Popple, but then by Hill, was sold by auction 

 at the George Inn. It ran back as far as the Quakers' 

 Burial Ground. There were upon it two dwelling-houses 

 fronting the high road, and a large building, lately a rape- 

 mill, also the Groves by the river, containing 1575 square 

 yards. The auctioneer used a sand-glass to time the bids, 

 and to demonstrate to buyers the ebbing away of their 

 opportunity. By the conditions of sale the highest bidder 

 within the running of three half-minute glasses was to be 

 the purchaser. The property fetched fifteen hundred and 

 sixty pounds. 



Quakers then had their separate burial grounds, the 

 burials being registered at the Parish Churches until they 

 hept Registers of their own. This small grave-yard, now 

 surrounded by houses, contains three flat stones, the oldest 

 of which commemorates Ant Wells, of Hull, Merchant, 

 who departed this life on the .28th day of 6th month, 1676. 

 In 1678, when the wife of Thomas Richardson, of Wyton, 

 was buried there, the Minister of Sutton noted that they 

 failed to produce to him an affidavit that she was wrapped 

 only in woollen, as the law then required. It had, by 

 mistake, been sent to Swine, because Drypool was known 

 to be in Swine, and this locality was still called Drypool. 

 There are a few entries in the Sutton Registers down to 1679 

 of persons buried "in loco usurpato populo vulgo dicto 

 Quakers," and, with grander simplicity, "in Sepulterio 

 Quakerorio." 



Quakers swarmed about Hull, and were notorious for 

 their sufferings. In 1657, when the Quaker, William Elliker, 

 a small Sutton farmer, probably living in this neighbour- 

 hood, refused to pay eight shillings and sixpence towards 

 the repair of the " Steeple-House," or Church, the Steeple- 



