90 HULL SCIENTIFIC AND FIELD NATURALISTS' CLUB. 



On the Patent Roll, 17 Elizabeth, part 5, is a grant to John 

 Sonkye and Percival Gunson of an acre and a half of meadow 

 in Maunsdale, two acres of meadow in the south territory of 

 Stoneferry and Dripole West Field, half an oxgang of land 

 in the lordship of Drypule, called Kirkefeld, and a toft there 

 containing an acre of meadow, and another acre and a half 

 of meadow called Armescrofte, formerly belonging to the 

 dissolved monastery of Thorneton, co. Lincoln. At the 

 Dissolution, Thornton Abbey held in Drypole lands of the 

 annual value of ^5 is. 2^d. 



About 1570, Mr. Robt. Ratcliffe endowed his hospital in 

 Salthouse Lane with pasture to feed one cow in the Kirkefield. 

 In the 4th James I., Henry Alured held pasture there for 

 56 cattle. But Sir Francis Thomas purchased of him two 

 oxgangs in the Kirke Field. This would be tillage. It may 

 be that only one part of this field had been laid down to grass. 

 In 1645, Jeffrey Blades of Hull, Mercer, devised to his son 

 Edward a close of meadow of four acres and one stang in 

 Dripole Church Field.* In 1659, Joseph Blaides senior, 

 of Hull, devised to his son William the Blockhouse close, 

 containing 12 acres in Drypole. Also, "at Stoneferry the 

 house wherein Ellen ffisher dwells, called the ffery house, 

 with one garth and the groves " and a common, and a house 

 in Drypoole with free common and a Pichell. In 1667, 

 William Blaides of Hull, Shipwright, devised to his son the 

 same property. The family was closely connected with Scul- 

 coats and Sutton. 



The Parish Registers contain some interesting items be- 

 longing to the time before the Blockhouses of Henry VIII. 

 were superseded by the new Citadel, and when old Drypool 

 still existed. In 1591, Jenet Adam of the South Blockhouse 

 was buried. In 1600, Owmfrey, the son of William Hop- 

 kinson was baptised, the " consponsors " being Humphrey 

 Hall, rector of Patrington, Josua Hall and "Mistrees Peeke" 

 of Hull. The fortifications were used as prisons for Popish 

 Recusants who were very harshly treated — alive and dead. 

 In 1602, Thomas Cletheray, a recusant of the North Block- 

 house was put into his grave "by the means of Henry 

 Garrat, without the minister and without the order of 

 buriall according to law." In 1677, Mr. Martin Frobisher 

 of the South Blockhouse was buried. This bearer of a 

 distinguished name may have had no connection with the 



* He also left to him his gardens, &c, near Jesus Gate, " now called 

 Blanket Row," lately purchased of Thomas Gaskin. 



