EVIDENCES RELATING TO EAST HULL. 6l 



manor and lands was bought in 1527, of Robert Ughtred by 

 Cardinal Wolsey, some little time before his disgrace, as 

 part of the endowment of his new College at Oxford. In 

 1529 it was confiscated by Henry VIII., who in 1535 granted 

 it to Sir Marmaduke Constable. In 1554 the lessee was 

 Stephen Hogge of a Southcoates family. He lived at 

 Stoneferry and left to his wife and children his part of the 

 manor of Sutton which he held from Sir Marmaduke Con- 

 stable, and his two parts of the house in which he lived. 

 In 1649, this share in the manor was held by Sir Philip 

 Constable, Bart., who calls himself " a third lord in Sutton " ; 

 his rental here stood thus — 



The capons are the last remnants of the ancient " ser- 

 vices " which in feudal times a tenant had to render to his 

 lord. Apart from them his manorial rights seem to have 

 been of no substantial value. The lands lay intermixed all 

 over the Parish, so that the rental of Stoneferry cannot be 

 separated from that of Sutton. 



In March 1552-3, Sir Philip Constable's estates having 

 been forfeited for treason against the Commonwealth, a 

 survey and valuation was made. (Rentals and Surveys, 

 Domestic, Interregnum, E. 58, Folio 182 b.), in which 

 Constable's third share in a cottage and a ninth part of the 

 manor stood at six shillings and eightpence a year. Among 

 the tenants was Mr. Thomas Watson, the prefix to whose 

 name shews that he was of more consequence than his 

 small rent of forty shillings for Constable's third share 

 would indicate. His father, Mr. Thomas Watson, and 

 his mother had lived at Stoneferry, though they were 

 probably from Drypool ; their wills shew no signs of wealth. 

 I am not sure that he can be identified with the Thomas 

 Watson whose half-penny token dated 1668 and bearing the 

 arms of the Tallowchandlers' Company, is in the Municipal 

 Museum, but he was probably a prosperous merchant in 

 Hull. The Town Clerk, Charles Vaux, Steward of the 

 Manor of Sutton, was his friend and executor. Before 



