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called Grym, and the tithes of the 15^ acres in Armescroft, 

 three cottages in Drypole, near the graveyard, a bercaria 

 called Swynelathes, with the manure from all animals pastur- 

 ing therein, and all other property let with the grange. 

 All this was let on lease to Thomas Aldred, Esquire,* at 

 ^4 us. 4d., and if these "appurtenances" went with the 

 grange when the rent was £6, the difference seems to be 

 due to the absorption of land for the fortifications. The 

 land so absorbed would lie west and south of the church. 

 There appears to have been already a tower there at the 

 entrance to the Old Harbour, to which was secured one end 

 of the chain that closed the Port, and if there were also 

 houses there, as shewn in the plan in the Cotton Collection, 

 they might be included in the appurtenances originally 

 acquired with Drypool Grange. 



As to Swynelathes, the charter" (B.M., L.F.C., VIII., 7), 

 which still bears the seal of Saver the third, grants to the 

 nuns the sheepfold "which lies next to the land called 

 Hedoncroft in Sutton just as it is bounded by the dikes." 

 I have placed Swynelathes on the key map with Hedon Close 

 and Langcroft, which are so named in the Sutton Tithe 

 Award of 1843. "Grym," or the Grimes would lie unfenced 

 in the Ings adjacent. 



Early in the Seventeenth Century the Crown was raising 

 large sums on the remainder of the monastic lands. In 1609 

 Sir Baptist Hicks, a London Merchant, afterwards Lord 

 Campden, and his associates having paid ,£75,000, James I., 

 at their instance, granted to Edward Bates and Henry Ellwes 

 lands including the pightell with 11 acres of meadow in the 

 Ings, formerly held by Robert Blassill. 



In the first year of Queen Mary the surplus lands, formerly 

 belonging to Thornton Abbey, were granted to Domina Joan 

 Constable, widow, and Sir John Constable, of Burton Con- 

 stable. They included a cottage in Drypole, an oxgang of 

 land and pasture in the Kirkefelde, a sheep cote and half a 

 close of land of 1^ acres in the fields of Drypole, land and 

 pasture in " le Midlefelde," Drypole, called a "pyghell," 

 half an oxgang of land and pasture in the fields of Drypole, 

 containing 1^ acres, ih acres of land and pasture in le Midle- 

 feld, and a close of an acre in the town of Drypole. The 

 Middle Field would lie between the Kirkefield and the Clough 

 Field in the Groves. 



Alrede, Aldred, or Alured — the family so long- prominent in and 

 about Hull. 



