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to the Hull which was a member of the manor of Sutton. 

 And when, in 1269, Joana de Stoteville refers to her men 

 of Hull, they must have been men in her manor of Cotting- 

 ham, who lived by the river side. 



I am not concerned in questions as to the sites of Wyke 

 and Myton, but I do not understand how, if the name of 

 Hull was in use before 1278 for the growing town on, or 

 near to the site which Edward I. afterwards acquired from 

 the Monks of Meaux, the Monks should, in that year, be 

 petitioning for a market and fair at the same spot, under 

 the name of Wyke, near Myton, on the Hull ; nor is it 

 likely that, with such a gold-mine actually within their 

 grasp, they should have mortgaged their estate here for a 

 trivial sum, thus inviting a loss which they must have 

 foreseen. Nor can one imagine such a commerce as Frost 

 mentions in his Notices, existing upon a site that, as yet, 

 had no Municipal Government and no public means of 

 approach by road, and which failed to be clearly described 

 in any independent documents relating to this locality. 



I suggest that the commerce, whether by the Hull or by 

 the Humber, was carried on by transhipment between sea- 

 going ships and river barges, in the harbour or haven, from the 

 chain fixed across the river's mouth to the chain at Stanford- 

 Rak, or Stoneferry, these being the two limits of the port. 

 In respect of such traffc, the " Ville de Hull" means the 

 Port on the Hull. Such an arrangement rendered necessary 

 the appointment of Sayer the Second as the Bailiff of the 

 river, until the king saw the advantage of a regularly con- 

 stituted town at the river's mouth, which would put an end 

 to the ill-regulated commerce along the stream. 



Sayer the Second, though deprived, for his misdeeds, of 

 the control of the traffic, retained his ancient rights over the 

 stream. In 1269, his son, Sayer the Third, gave up to 

 Archbishop Walter Giffard, his rights of making weirs in 

 the water of Hull, or any other obstacle to ships and boats, 

 between the Humber and Beverley. This date is fixed by 

 a similar grant of Joanna de Estouteville in respect of her 

 manor of Cottingham ; John de Oketon being one of the 

 witnesses to each charter. 



From the railway bridge at Wilmington may still be traced 

 on the grass, after a light fall of snow, the High Road to Stone- 

 ferry. When the HoldernessRoad and the Ings RoadtoSutton 

 superseded the High Road by the river, Stoneferry was, for 

 wheel-traffic, practically cut off from Hull. Sixty years ago, 

 the existing road beyond Wilmington was a private way to 



