EVIDENCES RELATING TO EAST HULL. 75 



Ings. The meaning of the Noble in relation to pasturage in 

 Southcoates will appear from other evidences. 



This Court of the 20th October, 1595, is notable for the 

 variety of its business. John Graves did fealty and was sworn a 

 tenant. Mr. Robert Dalton who had succeeded his father as 

 one of the lords of the manor had not shewed his evidences 

 but he had promised to shew and examine them to any 

 who should be thought meet at his own house before the 

 next Court. Mr. Eestoft had made the like default but his 

 tenant Mr. Shipwrighte (a Sutton man) craved respite till 

 the next Court. 



The fines were moderated by the Jury, written in English, 

 and ordered to be read out in church where the whole parish 

 would hear. Very few would be entitled by their own inno- 

 cence to scoff at their neighbours on account of such exposure. 



The struggles of the writer of the later Rolls to set down 

 unfamiliar words and phrases are pathetic, but he gives some 

 evidence of the local pronunciation of Yorkshire and Lincoln- 

 shire words. He writes of yowes, bease, boles, geyse, and 

 yates that must " hinge of iorane lowpes and crukes." One 

 list is of "paymens layde at thyse corte howldene at Sutcotes 

 in the xxxj yeare of the reigne of oure sufferinge layde the 

 quenne maightye." The " sonne and hare" succeeds his 

 father. A tenant must " dacke his dike" or " dacke his 

 dacke " or "make half dacke." A dack was a hollow or 

 furrow that might let off water, perhaps a mere grip. Then 

 the tenants "shall none genge no horse gaytes from theyre 

 Sheppe gaytes nor shepp gaytes from theyre hors gaytes," 

 upon pain of every default 10s., unless they exchanged or 

 substituted half a common together. It was thus secured 

 that at least forty sheep should be dealt with when the tenant 

 chose to change one kind of animals for another. Geng or 

 genge is a variant of ging, a troop or gang. But this scribe 

 also uses "geng" for give — as "to geng warning." 



From lists of suitors in attendance at this court, or 

 amerced for absence, or excused, compared with the list of 

 estreats in October 1593, when all were absent through the 

 omission of the bailiff to summon them, we have the following 

 names, nearly in the order in which they were called : — 



Freeholders : 



Richard Hillyard, Gentleman. 

 Robert Hogg. 

 Simon Wetherell. 

 Thomas Rawlingson. 

 John Gregorie. 



William Willson. 

 Thomas Bennington. 

 Stephen Hogg of Stoneferie. 

 John Aldred, Esquire. 

 The heirs of Barnebie. 

 The heirs of Threshwell. 



