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tenant if he gave notice to the Jesters. The rule, of doubt- 

 ful application in Sutton, that pasturage could only be held 

 by an inhabitant, "down sitting and uprising," does not 

 seem to have existed here, for among the suitors are resi- 

 dents in adjacent townships. 



The Court dealt with cases of debt or damage between 

 the Suitors. It made orders as to the repair of Humber 

 bank, as to keeping up military exercises and enforcing the 

 sumptuary laws by which every one had to dress according 

 to his degree. Rarely it made orders applicable to Drypool, 

 the relations of this place with Southcoates being variable 

 and difficult to understand. 



Once Leonard Lockwood and William Hogge had to 

 answer for failing to pay 2s. 8d. for three " se sparres " — ■ 

 pieces of ship timber — bought of Leonard Stutt. Then 

 Leonard Lockwood complained that John Cockerell, having 

 accepted ten shillings, had not let him have pasture for 

 certain beasts as he had faithfully promised, whereupon the 

 defendent came and said the complainant might have the 

 pasture. 



In April 1595, the Jury presented the inhabitants of 

 Sudcotes for wearing of hattes, the total penalty being 4d. 

 It being then obligatory on men to wear on Sundays and 

 holidays woollen caps of English make under a penalty of 

 3s. 4d., the inhabitants of Sutcots and Dripole were pre- 

 sented in October for not wearing capps according to the 

 statute and were amerced in 6d. only. The township of 

 Sutcots was amerced in i2d. for not keeping their Stocks in 

 repair. For not watching according to the statute, the inhabi- 

 tants of Sutcots were amerced in i2d, and for not exercising 

 the statute for " artylyrie " their amercement was 6d. John 

 Aldred was ordered to keep his gate from Dripole field, 

 (in Sutton) into Summergangs in sufficient repair, hung 

 and locked, and the " bursels " or fences at both ends of 

 the gate in repair. No one might make a brigg from his 

 meadow in Sutton Ings across Summergangs dike unless it 

 was properly fenced and so kept. The same Court ordered 

 that, as there were divers places in the South Ings where 

 the Humber bank was in great ruin and decay, sufficient 

 timber should be taken " of that which now lyethe a scattered 

 abrod on the banke, grothes and pasture of the South 

 Ings " for the lockering of the same. And it was ordered 

 that for the cost of the work every lord, freeholder, or tenant, 

 for term of years, in the South Ings should pay 2s. 6d. 

 for " every Noble ancient rent " they had in the South 



