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House officers, with the local constable, Peter Tock, seized 

 a bacon-flitch, which was sold for twenty-six shillings, and 

 two chines, 'worth one shilling and sixpence. Still smaller 

 men lost calves or pewter dishes, and, after deducting 

 expenses, a few coppers would be offered back, which they 

 would refuse to touch. This is only a sample. They were 

 hauled before the magistrate in Hull, or cudgelled, or turned 

 out to a savage mob. Many were sent to York Castle ; 

 some died. They were, no doubt, very provoking. When 

 they differed with the magistrate they called him a liar, and 

 when he was drunk they told him of it straight, tightening 

 their hats on their heads. 



In 1767 the adjoining plot to the north, with its groves or 

 growths, belonged to Edward Hodgson. In the same year 

 the property beyond this, now the Allottment Gardens and 

 the Recreation Ground adjoining Dansom Lane, belonged to 

 Robert Burton, but the growths by the river had been 

 acquired by Hugh Blaydes. In 1818 these were occupied as 

 timber yards by Richardson & Wade, John Barkworth, and 

 others, which brings us to the modern state of things in this 

 locality. 



We now reach a large plot, the history of which goes 

 back to remote ages. It was the ancient ploughland of the 

 manor, called Dripole Field as lately as 1710, but which, 

 from the new outlet to Summergangs Dike, got the name 

 of the Clough Field. It contained only twenty-eight acres, 

 which does not agree with the three oxgangs, or forty-five 

 acres, which Sayer de Sutton, the second, held in Dripole, 

 nor with the area of the berewic in Dripole as given in 

 Domesday.* Perhaps the enclosed lands between it and 

 Witham had been carved out of old Dripole Field; there 

 is here great scope for conjecture. Nearly the whole of the 

 strips of lands in this tillage field must have belonged to 

 Robert Burton, for in 1757 he sold the wide Growths in front 

 of it, reserving only the claims of the owners of one broad 

 land and one narrow land in the field. What is called a 

 Pightle, probably a Toft, that had been nibbled from the 

 Clough Field was sold in 1764 to Thomas Hodgson, and is 

 now, I think, the site of the Subscription Mill in Dansom 

 Lane. In 1767 the Enclosure Award gave the whole field 

 to Robert Burton. In the midst of this ancient ploughland 

 the truncated spire of St. Mark's Church dominates its 

 district of mean streets. 



* This was three taxable oxgang-s, which was probably the same 

 land that Sayer afterwards held. 



