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the place of the Abbot of Thornton to the north and the 

 Outgang which leads to the pasture called Newfrith to 

 the south." Was this upon the detached piece of 

 Southcoates sold, as we shall see, in 165 1 by Broumflitt to 

 Popple ? If so, it indicates the position of the land of 

 Thornton Abbey. Further evidences as to localities not 

 easy to identify are contained in the surveys made of lands 

 acquired for the fortifications in Drypool. 



To begin at the beginning : — The land sold in the first 

 year of Richard II. by Sir Thomas de Sutton to the Mayor 

 of Hull and others lay "on the east side of the water 

 of Hull on the north side of the Kaye there." It consisted 

 of one piece measuring 100 ells each way "within the 

 lordship of the said Thomas de Sutton in Dripole ; " also 

 the land on which the Quay was situated containing 100 

 ells in length and 10 in breadth. There is no conclusive 

 proof that he held land outside his Manors of Sutton and 

 Southcoates. There is no evidence that this land was used 

 for the expressed purpose of building a fortification. The 

 fortifications actually made there grew out of different con- 

 ditions at a later time. 



The dissolution under Henry VIII. of the Priory of Nuns 

 at Swine, the Carthusian Priory at Hull, and Thornton 

 Abbe)', brought much of the limited area of Drypool into 

 the possession of the King. These lands had been let to 

 tenants, and the Crown when in need ot money, leased or 

 sold them with others for large sums paid down, subject 

 always to the existing tenancies. The chief points of interest 

 here are the lands by the river on which were erected the 

 Block Houses and their connecting walls. The land of the 

 Carthusians was in Sutton, extending from the North Bridge 

 to Dripolegote ; that of the Nunnery lay to the south in 

 Swine. The land of Thornton Abbey was in the Drypool 

 portion of Swine, or partly in Southcoates. 



I have long suspected that all the lands of the Carthusians 

 in Sutton, Lopholme, Stoneferry, and Drypole, east of the 

 River Hull, being those which had decended from Benedict 

 de Sculcoates through the families of De Grey of Rotherfield 

 and De la Pole, were, like the Hastings berewic, independent 

 of the lords of Sutton. After the fortifications were erected 

 the surplus land was granted to Sir Henry Gates, and upon 

 the deed a memorandum was added that "the said Mannor 

 of Skulcots dothe extende into ye P'ishes and hamletts of 

 Sculcots, Sutton lord?', Drypole and Stonefery. " This con- 

 dition might have been created when Henry VIII. acquired 



