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to and from his early tea. Hull was then supposed to be 

 finally completed, but I have since heard of far-sighted 

 people who thought that the town might extend even beyond 

 such limits. Its population has trebled under our eyes. 



Drypool in Swine. 



Owing to the lack of efficient drainage, and to the 

 frequent floods of early times, this remote corner of Holder- 

 ness would be nearly valueless, until the great demand 

 for wool brought every acre that would carry sheep into 

 practical use. The old tillage of doubtful dryness would 

 then be more valuable as meadow and pasture, and this 

 seems to have been the case through later times. The page 

 of evidences in Poulson's " Holderness," does not afford 

 much help, for references to Drypool are inextricably mixed 

 with Sutton and Southcoates ; but, except as to Drypool 

 Field, in Sutton, of 29 acres, there is little evidence of 

 mediceval or modern tillage. 



Although the Chapel of St. Peter was the mother church 

 of Southcoates, both were included, together with the manors, 

 in the parish of Swine. A manuscript book of the fifteenth 

 century, in the library of the Dean and Chapter of York, 

 records some long and complicated proceedings in various 

 ecclesiastical courts, relating to the right of burial of the 

 inhabitants of Sutton, Stoneferry, Dripole (in Sutton), and 

 Lopholme at their chapel of Sutton, which was not yet 

 separated from the mother church of Wawne. On the 23rd 

 March, 1429, John Wylflete, of Hedon, whose family belonged 

 to Preston and Marfleet, said that several years ago many 

 person were drowned in the river at Hull Ferry, and their 

 bodies were taken out in the parish of Swine, which would 

 be the eastern bank of the river at Drypool.* 



After the Reformation this parochial arrangement broke 

 down, and, under the Commonwealth, a remedy was sought. 

 A Survey, made in 1649, states that " Drypoole hath a 

 Parochial Chapel depending upon Swyne ; the tythes belong 

 to the Lordship of Drypoole and Sudcoats, and are worth 

 yearly the value of thirty pounds, out of which they should 

 provide for a minister, but have not had one this four years 

 and a half. We consider it fitt that it be Separate from 

 Swyne, and made a parish of itself, being five miles distant 



* Wilflete was the old name for the dike that divided Southcoates from 

 Marfleet. 



