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Mounsdale Clow, be well dressed with sythe and rake, and 

 ground-scoured where need requires, in paine of ever)' corde 

 undone ios." This is Summergangs dike, running from the 

 boundar)- of Marfleet, which is not otherwise referred to in 

 this copy of Paynes. Another conveyance includes meadow 

 abutting upon " a close of meadow" called Chimney lands. 

 The Cornepasture, probably tillage laid down to grass, 

 may have been enclosed land. Thomas and Frances Hogg 

 were joint tenants of the Corne Pasture House. In 1659, 

 Joseph Blaides, senr. , left to his son William, who in 1667 

 devised to his sons, "land called the Corne Pasture and 

 the Ewelands, containing 24 acres." I suspect that these 

 were old enclosures out of the East Field. There was a 

 close called Galencroft. 



The entries of encroachments in the rolls of the Manor 

 Courts shew that the Common was part of Summergangs, 

 that which lay south of the Holderness Road. It adjoined 

 the West Field, for Thomas Teele had to pay I2d. for not 

 sufficiently digging out the dike between them. It adjoined 

 the Chimley land, for Robert Hodgson was fined ten shillings 

 in respect of twenty cordes of the intervening dike. 



In 1422, William Twyer of Ganstead, by a charter which 

 I have seen, caused to be settled upon his son Robert, on his 

 marriage, lands, which included a messuage, a croft, eleven 

 acres and a half of plough land, one acre and three roods of 

 Meadow in Sotcotes and three animal pastures in the Frith, 

 which was in the same locality. 



The Court Leet or view of Frank Pledge, a Royal Court, 

 and the Court Baron of the Lords of the Manor were held 

 together twice a year, in April or May and in September or 

 October ; a few of the Rolls, the earlier in Latin, are preser- 

 ved at the Town Hall. They are usually headed like the 

 first which begins as follows : — * 



" Sudcotes. View of Prank Pledge with the Court Baron 

 of the Mayor and Burgesses of the Town of Kingeston upon 

 Hull and of Philipp Constable Esquire, Thomas Dalton, 

 John Stanhoppe, John Cockerell, Ralph Brown, and heirs of 

 Robert Hogge, Lords of the Manor, held there the 12th day 

 of October in the 18th year of the reign of our Lady Eliza- 

 beth by the Grace of God Queen of England France and 

 Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c." The Court elected 

 four Adjisters, called jesters, or keepers of the fields, a Con- 



* I have to thank the Property Committee of the Corporation for per- 

 mission to use these Rolls, and I am particularly indebted to Mr. Boyle, 

 as already mentioned. 



