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private road. In the great floods of 1764, the whole land 

 between Bilton and Hull was under water, so deep that the 

 turnpike houses were deserted, and there was no travelling 

 along the road "from January 6th to the 1st day of April, 

 except in a boat. One man and horse, attempting to go 

 through, were drowned."* About 1813, Isabel Richardson, 

 who kept house for her cousin, Thomas Priestman, in Hull, 

 used to walk to his new house at East Mount along this road 

 in pattens, "to keep her feet out of the water, so abundant 

 in this locality." 



Many entries in the Book of the Provost of St. John at 

 Beverley, relate to Southcoates where the lords of Sutton 

 held a Manor under the College, while other persons also held 

 lands directly under it. The manor was held at a rent of 

 eight shillings per annum, and when Sir Thomas de Sutton 

 failed to appear at the Court of the Provost or to pay his 

 rent, he was fined like other tenants or was excused like 

 others. Sir Thomas succeeded his brother Sir John, who had 

 held one manor in Sutcoates and two carucates of land, 

 presumably arable, with the meadow and pasture and houses 

 that went with it. In the 26th, Henry VI his representatives 

 were Sir Edmund Hastings, Sir John Salvayn, and the 

 Ladies Isabella Godard, wife of John Cussons, and Constancia 

 Pygott or Bigod, who then shared the divided manor. Their 

 lands in Sutcotes are described as arable, meadow and pasture. 

 In the reign of Henry VIII., Salvayn's share passed through 

 Sir William Svdnev and the Crown to the Corporation of 

 Hull. 



The hamlet of Southcoates seems to have contained 

 several small farms or cottages with crofts at their rear and 

 sheepcots close to the pasturage. The Manor Rolls and other 

 evidences shew that there were in Southcoates, besides Sum- 

 mergangs, the following open fields and meadows : — 



The East Field, West Field, and Humber Field, were 

 originally the three open araole fields necessary for a rotation 

 of wheat, spring crops, and fallow ; but by the reign of 

 Elizabeth, and probably long before, all these had been laid 

 down in grass. Indeed, the old plough-lands, when they are 

 clearly visible, seem never to have acquired the double 

 curvature characteristic of ancient tillage. I think the fields 

 were at least partly meadow, for fines were inflicted on those 

 who turned cattle into some of them or drove across them 



* This is the true effect of an entry in the Patrington Register, which 

 I examined with the late Canon Maddock ; " but " being there used tor 

 *' except." 



