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Charter, No. 487, grants twenty one acres of land in the 

 meadows of Sutton, extending from the common pasture of 

 Summergang as far as the arable land by the river. 



The enclosed lands beyond the thirty-acre close, towards 

 Stoneferry, were the South Field, the Little Field, and the 

 " Intack," a name that suggests its enclosure. They were 

 sold to Mr. Thomas Broadly, by the last representatives 

 of that branch of the Daltons which acquired the third 

 part of the manor, called Boomer's, or Bulmer's, from the 

 descendants of Agnes, daughter of Sir Thomas de Sutton. 



The Ings were, in general, called the Meadows of Sutton, 

 but, on account of their extent, they had many distinctive 

 local names, a portion near the river beyond Magnusdaile 

 being known as the Meadows of Hull. 



There is a Charter (Stowe, 486), by which Saver the 

 Third granted important rights-of-way to the Nuns of Swine, 

 who had large and growing interests in Dripole. One of 

 these ran along the present footway, leading from Sutton 

 towards Kingston -upon- Hull. Saver grants to the nuns 

 that, with their men riding or going, they may use the 

 path which reaches from Sutton as far as Dripole, " through 

 the meadows of Sutton and of Hull and of Dripole as the 

 men of Sutton and Dripole now use it." This is an exact 

 description of the path, as shown on the old map of Sutton, 

 which represents the allotments in the common fields at the 

 Enclosure of 1767. It is not known that Saver had any 

 lands on the west side of the river, and, if he had, we 

 cannot conceive why the men of Sutton, or the nuns, should 

 desire to go from Sutton to Dripole by the way of Wike, 

 or Myton, or the " Hull " which grew up on their sites. 

 I place this evidence first, because it throws light on many 

 documents of older and later dates. Sayer the Second had 

 leased to Thornton Abbey, in 12 17, for twelve years and 

 three months, pasturage for 616 sheep, at six score to the 

 hundred, in the fields and marshes of Sutton, Hull, Sote- 

 cotes, and Dripole, with free entrance and exit between Hull 

 and Wilflete. That is, I submit, all over his lands between 

 the River Hull and the limits of his manors at Marfleet. 



The application of the name "Hull" to these meadows 

 may more clearly be inferred from a singular grant (Dods- 

 worth, 94. f. 90), made by Sayer the Fourth, immediately 

 on succeeding to the manors. His father, Sayer the Third, 

 who died about 1270, having left, we must suppose, no 

 special provision for Joan, his widow, she impleaded in 

 the Court of the King, before the Justices of the Bench, 



