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and pasturage from the lords of the manor, and from the 

 free tenants whose ancient farms were perhaps already large 

 enough for them. The success of the monks was remarkable 

 and, through their trade in wool, they ought to have grown 

 richer than they did. At the dissolution of the monastry 

 in 1539, the Crown seized this property, letting it with 

 Meaux Abbe) - , on leases for lives to the family of Alford, and 

 later, granting the rents from these leases to John Dudley, 

 Duke of Northumberland and to his son, Robert Dudley, 

 Earl of Leicester 'till it again reverted to the Crown. These 

 rentals were afterwards settled upon successive Queens- 

 Consort. 



The municipal boundary includes part of the Ings which 

 were divided into " dailes " or allotments, several transactions 

 in which between the lords of the manor, the Nuns of 

 Swine, and others, are recorded in the Stowe Charters. The 

 Marr or Lake, which had covered much of this ground, was 

 commemorated amongst the dailes by such names as Stayn- 

 mar and East and West Stanmardaile ; Robert de Stanernia 

 seems to have written many of the Charters. 



Sutton Drain, made through the Ings about 1765, greatly 

 to the improvement of all the low lands over a wide area, 

 was the outcome of long consideration. In 1677 a Com- 

 mittee of the Corporation had reported against a scheme 

 for carrying such a drain to Malmesdale Clough, thinking 

 that a better outfall could be got into the H umber between 

 Drypool and Marfleet, which idea has since been carried out. 

 A proposition was seriously entertained as recently as 1786, 

 to make Sutton drain into a navigable canal, with Locks 

 and Wharves for the carriage of corn and manure and goods ; 

 the roads being excessively rough and hazardous. There 

 were then no light carts, and farmers' wagons frequently 

 broke down, even on turnpike roads. 



The railway to Hornsea, after crossing Sutton drain, 

 enters upon an Enclosure more ancient than Summergangs 

 dike, for the dike was carried half round it so as to in- 

 clude it in Sutton. It was the largest of the sheepfolds which 

 were necessary adjuncts to pasturage in Summergangs and 

 meadow in the Ings. There were probably more sheepfolds 

 than one here. One of its three divisions is called Langcroft, 

 an old name, the largest is Hedon-croft, probably so called 

 from Hedun de Hedun, who in 1217 held meadow in the 

 Ings. 



By a charter (B.M. L.F.C. VIII.), Saver the third ganted 

 to the Nuns of Swine, the site of that sheepfold in the 



