

EVIDENCES RELATING TO EAST HULL. 57 



by a Writ of Dower, called from its commencing words, 

 " Unde nihil habet," certain persons who had held lands 

 and tenements from her husband. They included Arch- 

 bishop Walter Giffard, Isabella de Fortibus, then the 

 widowed Countess of Albemarle, Richard, Abbot of Meaux, 

 and Matilda, Prioress for Swine. These, appearing before 

 the Justices in the Octave of St. Hilary, 55th Henry 3rd, 

 drew in Sayer, the son, as heir, who, as he says, "to avoid 

 costs and labours and grievances," granted to his mother, 

 on Thursday next before the Feast of St. Matthew, in 

 the Chapel of Sutton, a sufficient dower, including the 

 following items : — 



" The Manor of Sottecotes with its liberties, easements, 

 and other appurtenances, his entire holding in Drypol, with 

 all its liberties, easements, gates, customs, and other appur- 

 tenances, eighty acres of meadow with their appurtenances, 

 in Villis de Sutton et Hull, with which she had already been 

 dowered by the Bailiffs of the Countess of Albemarle." And 

 also "William the Reeve (prepositus), of Hull, with all his 

 holding, all his family and chattels." I do not suppose that 

 the " Ville de Hull" then meant more than the cottages 

 which accommodated the herdsmen whom William super- 

 vised, with, possibly, a few serfs or labourers employed 

 about the bank of the river. At any rate, the dower granted 

 would be in his manor, and not in the Hull which sprung 

 up at or near Wike or Myton. 



Again, Sayer, "the son of Sayer" (who was probably the 

 fourth), granted to Robert de Hildyard, common in Sutton 

 and Hull, as much as belonged to an oxgang of tillage. 

 Tillage and pasturage would be in his manor. At the 

 inquest on the death of Sayer the Fourth, in 1289, the 

 manor of Sutton is mentioned, together with the manors 

 of Ganstead and Hull, but nothing is known of his holding 

 a manor of Hull other than this. 



These charters throw light on an older document (B. M. 

 Lansd., 194), by which Stephen, son of Ralph de Sutton, 

 a descendant of former lords, grants, for the health of his 

 soul and the souls of all his ancestors, to God, and to the 

 Altar of St. John of Beverley, his bondsmen, John, Henry, 

 and Roger, sons of Richard, son of Robert of Hull, with 

 all their children then born, or in future to be born. Unless 

 it can be shown that the lords of Sutton had also a manor 

 on, or near the site which Edward I. obtained from the 

 Monks of Meaux, we must, I think, read all the ordinary 

 references to Hull with Sutton of this early date, as applying 



