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which belonged to the Crown. But after some long delay 

 the purchases of land were completed, and "the same was 

 duly conveyed by the several owners thereof." 



The two purchases contained about 30 acres, one part 

 being "all that close adjoining into the blockhouse, containing 

 by estimation about 12 acres, lying and being in the lordship 

 of Drypool," and another part containing 19 acres of pasture 

 ground, " abutting west upon the said close first described." 

 Tne new Citadel occupied the land covered by the southern 

 end of the old fortifications and part of the land purchased, 

 and it projected upon the foreshore so that the tides rose from 

 four to eight feet against the south wall. There remained, 

 however, about 14 acres of the purchased land lying eastward 

 of the Citadel, the surplus property of the Crown. The 

 whole became extra parochial. 



From the description there may have been two, "several," 

 or separate owners only, or there may have been "several" or 

 many owners of the close and the piece of pasture ground. 

 But there is no hint of a village of Drypool such as has been 

 assumed to have existed south of the church, and is indeed 

 shewn upon a sixteenth century drawing in the British 

 Museum. Better details of old Drypool may be discovered, 

 but, whether the owners were two or many, one can be 

 clearly identified. 



In 1690, Elizabeth Truslove,* the sister of Thomas Watson, 

 of Stoneferry, left to her daughter, Margaret Dickinson, a 

 messuage and close in Drypool, which messuage had been 

 lately demolished, and the ground taken from her upon 

 the making of a citadel or fortifications near Drypool, 

 "for which I have not as yet received any satisfaction." 

 This seems to carry the Watson property beyond the 

 manor of Sutton. Here was one of the purchases that were 

 uncompleted when Major Beckman was hurrying on the 

 works on the western side of the Citadel. 



In 1651, Robert Broumflitt conveyed to Israel Popple his 

 interest in a croft on which a tenement or toft late stood 

 abutting on Church-Field Lane (leading from Drypool Church 

 to the Kirke Field), on which now stand buildings north of 

 Popple Street. The King's highway was on the west, and 

 Churchfield Lane on the south. Farm buildings on this 

 land have been converted into cottages. The Hedon New 

 Road, an unprofitable undertaking, sliced a portion from the 



* She was the daughter of Thomas and Margaret Watson, of Stone- 

 ferry, and was married to John Truslove, of Keingley, Wawne, at 

 Drypool Church in October, 1650. 



