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the manor, but there is some evidence that it was of older 

 standing. As far back as the time of Sayer the second, when 

 the Monks of Meaux desired to cut a canal in the West Carr, 

 they asked leave, not only from the lord of Sutton and John 

 de Meaux, the owner of the herewic, and the free tenants, 

 but from William de Seintluce (Santa Lucia), who then held 

 the Sculcoates Manor. Evidently he was of more importance 

 than a free tenant. And in 13 12 there is an entry upon the 

 Close Roll (New Calendar, 5, Edw. 11, m. 16), ordering the 

 King's Escheator to restore to the widow the lands which 

 John de Grey, of Rotherfield, "tenant in chief, held in 

 Scolecotes, Sutton, and Drypol." Perhaps when the course 

 of the river was originally marked out, certain patches of dry 

 land belonging to the Sculcoates manor were left on the 

 eastern side. 



On the surrender of Swine Priory in 1536, its Drvpool 

 property consisted of two holdings only — a grange let to 

 John Williamson, chaplain, at £6 a year, and\ close called 

 "le pightell," with six acres of meadow, let to Robert 

 Blassill at 18s.* Among the appurtenances to the grange 

 there was probably meadow in "Sutton Yngs," besides 37 

 acres of meadow there let separately at 49s. 4d. All these 

 lands were granted with the rest of the Swine property to Sir 

 Richard Gresham, who was receiving the rents from the 

 tenants in 1539. Among the Spiritualities of the Priory was 

 the Rectory of Driepoole, worth five pounds a year, the tithe 

 of which the Prioress had kept in her own hands. 



When the King determined to make the fortifications, the 

 lands had to be got back from Gresham by an exchange 

 carried out under Edward VI. The grange was then said to 

 be in the township of Drypoole adjoining the King's Majesty's 

 edifications and fortress, f 



The fortifications having been finished, Queen Mary 

 granted to John Grene and William Jenyns, property includ- 

 ing Drypole Grange with the appurtenances now described 

 as 3! oxgangs of land, 15* acres of meadow in. a close called 

 Armescroft, 5 acres of meadow in Sutton Yngs, in a place 



* He also held a lathe or barn, two stables, and two gardens in 

 Southcoates and Stoneferry. The registers and other documents shew 

 that this Drypool family survived there in the Eighteenth Century. 



t There was also included a cottage with a close in Drypool, called 

 Lancrott, let on lease to Agnes Squyer, widow, at 5s. 4d. She held 

 Magnusdaile under Meaux Abbey, and if this is the Langcroft that 

 adjoins Hedon Croft, the name of Drypool extended further into Sutton 

 than I have supposed. 



