EVIDENCES RELATING TO EAST HULL. 79 



Mason the Vicar of Holy Trinity, and cousin of the Rev. 

 Arthur Robinson who succeeded to the benefice. 



Summergangs was enclosed in 1748, the pasture gates 

 being then reckoned by Demain, or Stinted Commons, 

 and Free Commons, which were of double value. The 

 Demain Common meant pasturage for eight)' sheep and 

 four horses or beasts. Charles Pool, having acquired 

 a large proportion, and being, also, the owner of the 

 tithes, brought the other owners of pasturage to an agree- 

 ment, whereby this wide area was cut up into sections, 

 the tithe upon which was fixed at one shilling and 

 sixpence per acre. Dansom Lane now runs along the 

 western margin of Summergangs, close to old Summer- 

 gangs Dike. That the flow of water along this dike had 

 already been cut off is clear, for this lane, first called Clow 

 Lane, and, for a short time, Mill Lane, was made to enable 

 cattle to be taken from the Holderness Road to drink at 

 "Mansley," or " Munsley " Clow ditch, near to Edward 

 Hodgson's farm house, on Magnusdaile, where the water 

 had been diverted to the river. 



Of the three ancient open fields the Humber Field was 

 the first to be enclosed. In 1717, Elizabeth Robinson con- 

 veyed to Sarah Robinson lands including a "close of meadow 

 or pasture formerly called the Thirteen and fourpence," con- 

 taining three acres in Sudcoates. In 1727, Sarah Robinson 

 conveyed to Wm. Jarratt the same close in Humber Field, 

 "which said field was some years ago enclosed and allotted 

 in lieu of six beast gates, commonly called thirteen shillings 

 and fourpence of grass." But if I have correctly identified 

 the Humber Field, it was enclosed long before 1 717. In the 

 nth Charles I. the commissioners in the case of Davey and 

 Alford, who quarrelled over Bursill lands, agreed that 

 Humber Close was a close of pasture ground of about 5^ 

 acres, abutting south and west on Sudcoates Humber Field, 

 east on a pasture ground called Sudcoates South Inges, and 

 north on a pasture ground called Sudcoates West Field. 

 This Humber close must in 1636 have already been enclosed 

 out of the Humber Field. 



The East and West Fields, with the South Ings, which 

 seems to have ceased to be meadowed, were enclosed in 

 1764 under the influence of Charles Pool, who enclosed 

 Summergangs, and on similar terms. The total amount of 

 pasturage dealt with was 94 nobles, one gate, one foot, and 

 the sixth part of a gate, which would be grazing for one 

 sheep. 



