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small rivulets, or becks, rising at Kirkburn,. 

 Emswell, and Little-Driffield, which falling 

 into one large stream just below the town of 

 Great-Driffield, is called the west beck ; and 

 about three miles below, at Wansford, it is 

 joined by a small stream from NafFerton ; 

 and two miles lower still, at Emrnorland- 

 Stakes, by that of Lowthorpe, from which- 

 place it takes the name of the river Hull. 



The lords of the different manors are, on 

 the north-east side, Richard Langley, Esquire, 

 Wykeham-Abbey, and Sir Mark Sykes, Ba- 

 ronet, Sled-mere ; on the south-west side, 

 Richard Arkwright, Esquire, Croornford, 

 Derbyshire, and Sir Charles Hotham, Ba- 

 ronet, South. Dalton; to whom it is neces- 

 sary to make application for the liberty of 

 angling, which for gentlemen, and. fair sports- 

 men, will not be very difficult to obtain ; and 

 indeed nothing can more contribute to pre- 

 vent the depredations of poachers, than a 

 number of persons, in the fishing season, mov- 

 ing about in various directions near every 

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