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"cultura" that lies next to the cultura called Hedon-crofte, 

 "just as it is bounded by the dikes." These would be 

 meadows, for the term is used of meadows in similar char- 

 ters. Also before 1260 Sayer granted to the Nuns (Stowe 

 487) eighteen and a half acres next Hedon-croftes, near to 

 their sheepfold. He warranted this against his lord, the 

 last William de Fortibus, Earl of Albemarle, who died in 

 1260. At the dissolution in 1540, the property of the Nuns 

 was granted to Sir Richard Gresham, then to Sir John 

 Constable and passed to the Alureds. 



In 1 73 1 and 1734 (E.R.R.) conveyances were made of 

 a bercaria or sheep-coate called Swine Lathes, and two 

 closes containing eighteen acres, formerly the lands ot John 

 Alured. The lathes would be store places and shelters for 

 sheep. At the Enclosure in 1767, Hedon-close belonged to 

 the family of Sedgwick, the owners of the Hastings manor. 



In the Ings, close to the Summergangs dike, a little west 

 of Hull East Park, is a field of old enclosure called Countess 

 Croft. Sayer the third, or his son granted o Isabella, 

 Countess of Albemarle, widow of William de Fortibus, by 

 a charter (Dodsworth, 94), with 120 acres of meadow in 

 Sutton, pasturage for a thousand sheep in Sottecoates, Dry- 

 pool, and Sutton. This was no doubt, her sheepfold, and 

 we see by such evidences the persistency of old dikes and 

 old names. 



SOUTHCOATES. 



At the time of the Domesday Survey, about 1086, Sotcote 

 and Dridpol had in the manor or manors thirteen taxable 

 oxgangs. It was then waste, but in the time of Edward the 

 Confessor its annual value had been thirty shillings. The 

 College of St. John of Beverley had in Sotcote a berewic of 

 one carucate or eight oxgangs, and in Dritpol three oxgangs 

 with soke upon five. All this was tillage, amounting to 195 

 acres in the manor and 240 acres in the berewic. This also 

 was then waste. But if the third part of the ploughland, 

 which must lie in fallow each year, went untaxed and unre- 

 corded, this sum of 435 acres represented a total of 652 acres 

 of tillage, besides meadow and pasturage, of which nothing 

 is told. The total area of the combined townships is now 

 1 48 1 acres. 



The interest of the lords of the Manor of Sutton in South- 

 coates, led to the foundation of a Chapel there, subject to the 

 rights of the Church or Chapel of Drypole which was under 



