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great sea captain, for the name was in common use for a 

 person who furbished up arms or utensils. Among the 

 expenses of the Corporation about 1522 was one shilling 

 paid "to the Frobisher for scouring the Sword." In 1597, 

 a suicide was buried on the north side of the church. The 

 name of Blaides frequently appears; the Bromfleets were 

 landowners improving their position from the sixteenth to 

 the eighteenth century. One of the oldest local names is 

 Schakyll or Shackles, of Stoneferry and Southcoates in 

 the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. 



The erection, late in the seventeenth century, of the 

 Citadel, which remained until the middle of the nineteenth 

 century, led to many negotiations and revived old disputes 

 between the Crown and the Corporation, extending back to 

 their purchase from Sir Thomas de Sutton, in 1377, of land 

 for a tower.* Questions relating to lands in that locality 

 were dealt with in 1801, and particularly in 1861, when an 

 action by the Corporation against the Crown was dismissed. 

 Owing to legal proceedings now pending, points that might 

 be of interest cannot be investigated at present, but the 

 following item may be usefully extracted from proceedings in 

 Chancery of about the latter date. See Chancery B. & A., 

 i860, page 6, and Decree No. 2259, 22 Nov., 1861. 



Until 1681 there remained in use on the east side of the 

 river the fortifications of Henry VIII., consisting of the 

 North and South Blockhouses with the Castle standing 

 between them, and the long connecting wall and ditch. But 

 in that year the Ordnance Department under Charles II. 

 determined to strengthen and extend these fortifications, and 

 caused a new Citadel to be constructed wholly in the parish 

 of Drypool, enclosing the Castle and the South Blockhouse, 

 but abandoning the North Blockhouse and the connecting 

 wall from the scheme of military defence. 



On the nth October, 1681, the Board of Ordnance sub- 

 mitted to Counsel " the draughts and the conveyance for the 

 lands to the south of Drypool Church and to the east of the 

 Castle and South Blockhouse, to be taken in of several 

 persons for the fortifications." The works were at once 

 pressed on by Major Beckman, who was in charge. While he 

 was still negotiating with the Corporation, and though the 

 conveyances were not complete, he was working on the site 

 of the old wall and ditch on the eastern side near to the river, 



* See Poulson's " Holderness " under Drypool, and Sheehan's "Hist, 

 of Hull." 



