84 HULL SCIENTIFIC AND FIELD NATURALISTS* CLLB. 



from Swyne." This scheme was carried out at a later date. 

 A memorandum of the early part of the eighteenth century 

 states that the advowson was bought by Alderman John- 

 son, of Hull, and left to his daughter, Mary Banes. 



The fields or open places in Drypool were the Arnes- 

 croft Meadow, adjoining Southcoates West Field, also 

 the Kirke Field, adjoining the Humber Field, of Southcoates. 

 There was somewhere a Middle Field, as well as a Dripole 

 West Field, which last agrees with the Clough Field in 

 Sutton.* 



The Arnescroft was evidently a large meadow in which 

 all who had much interest in Drypool had shares. There is 

 no part of Drypool that answers to this except the large 

 piece thrust in between Summergangs and the rest of South- 

 coates. This leaves very little ground for Humber Field, 

 but the Humber must have taken a breadth of land along 

 that shore, in spite of the " lockering " done to the bank in 

 the South logs. 



In 1579 tenants in Humber Field were fined ten shillings 

 because they had not sufficiently dug out 20 cordes of dike 

 or 420 feet next the Kirke Field. The Stowe MS., 

 No. 70, in the British Museum is a grant made about 1250 

 by Geoffrey de Watton to the Nunnery of Swine of lands 

 including "an acre and a half and a perch in the territory of 

 Dripol in Neucroft, whereof one head extends to the Humber 

 and the other head upon Arnes Croft, and an acre and a perch 

 of meadow at Thorndaile towards the south." Neucroft 

 was probably a recent extension of Kirke Field, which was 

 near the Church, so as to bring it in touch with Humber 

 Field, Xo. 71 is another grant, with his body for burial, 

 by this same Geoffrey, of "those two selions (or plough- 

 lands) which extend from the dike of Arnescroft as far as 

 the Humber, and that acre and a perch of meadow lying 

 next to the 'cultura' of the said Nunnery at Thornedaile." 

 These were probably the same lands, and the term "cultura" 

 is sometimes used for meadow. 



An old enclosure in this locality is indicated in the entry 

 in book of the Provost of Beverley of the 26th Henry VI., 

 already quoted. The lords of the Manor of Sudcoats are 

 said to hold of the Lord Provost a place of lands with the 

 appurtenances in the town of Dripole, "and it lies between 



* A Corporation lease of 1095, to Thos. Atkinson, includes five roods 

 of pasture "in Drypool t'eikl, nigh Moundscale Clough of Clough feild." 



This must have been their share of the wide Growths, for the Clough 

 Field was never laid down to grass. 



