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Swine. In 1236, a dispute between Sibil Prioress of Swine 

 and Sayer the second, who complained that she had deforced 

 him from the advowson of the Church of Dripole, was settled 

 by a Fine in which he quit-claimed to her this right. In 

 return she agreed that the nunnery should find a chaplain, 

 with clerk, books, vestments, light, and all requisites for a 

 chantry in the chapel at Ganstead, also that he should have 

 a free chantry in Southcoates, as he had before, at his own 

 charges, saving harmless the Church of Dripole. 



In 1327, Sir John de Sutton senior had licence in Mort- 

 main to alienate three messuages and land, with pasture for 

 two horses, four oxen, and two hundred sheep, in Sotcotes, 

 to a Chaplain to celebrate divine service daily in the chapel 

 of St. Mary at Sotcotes, for the souls of himself and his 

 ancestors. Some of the charters of Sir John de Sutton are 

 dated at Sudcoats, having, no doubt, been sealed at the 

 Chapel of St. Mary, the site of which might perhaps be found 

 among the farms, or at Mile-house, where the Holderness 

 Road turns as if to avoid some pre-existing obstacle. A 

 list of the chantry priests is given by Poulson. 



The natural overflow from the Stainmar would be at 

 Marfleet, but, in the constant efforts to improve the drainage, 

 the Humber and the Hull have by turns taken these low- 

 land waters. Summergangs-dike, which was cut for this 

 purpose, divides Sutton from Southcoates and Drypool. It 

 has been called "Gouts "-dike, corrupted to Gold-dyke, from 

 the French egout — a sewer. 



The Patent roll of the 1st Edward II (part 2.m, 4. d., 1308) 

 reveals some of the troubles of the lord of the manor. John 

 de Sutton senior, complained that certain named persons had 

 distrained and impounded his cattle, killing several, and a 

 Commission was issued with orders to deal with the male- 

 factors. Again in the 1st Edward III (part 3.m. 24. d.) a 

 long list was presented of rioters who, at Drypole, had 

 beaten and wounded John the son of the lord of the manor 

 to the peril of his life. These also with others had entered 

 the Free Warren of John de Sutton senior, at Sotcotes, 

 Sutton, and Drypole, hunting hares and rabbits, and beating 

 and wounding his servants. 



Summergangs, always a pasture, dotted and seamed all 

 over with ponds, and sikes and watery hollows, was of 

 very fluctuating value. The charter by which Hull acquired 

 one-sixth of the manorial rights, shews that in the reign of 

 Henry VIII, the full annual value of three commons, each 

 being for eighty sheep and four horses, was thirteen shillings 



