Land deposited by the sea - Separated from the Wolds by the great hollow - The ancient inhabitants - The Romans - The Engles

THE SUDTONE OF DOMESDAY

Almost an island - Bransholm and the Castle Hill - The Domesday Manor and Berewic - An Agricul- tural Community

MEDIAEVAL. SUTTON

Flight of Drogo - Holderness said to be barren - Embankment and Drainage - Marrs, sikes, and drains - New meadows and pastures - An Oxgang, with its appurtenances - The Lords of the Manor - The Berewic and its owners

THE EARLY LORDS OF THE MANOR

The Monks of Meaux and their chronicle - They acquire lands in Sutton - Their legacy from Amandus de Sutton

SAYER THE SECOND - THE KING'S BAILIFF

The forfeiture of his control over the river - Drainage of the marshes - Dripole in Sutton - The monks and the West Carr--Drainage of the West Carr - Mills, canals and fishery - The legacy of young Amandus - Death of a Bondman-- Sale of bondmen - Large grants to the Monks

SAYER DR SUTTON THE THIRD

Grants to Martin de Otringham - A rebellion in Holderness - Grants to the Nuns of Swine - Roads, or rights of way in the parish - New arrangements in the West Carr - The monks acquire pasturage in the Salts, and are turned out - Isabella de Fortibus acquires some of Sayer's meadows - Death of

SAYER DE SUTTON THE FOURTH

Sayer's grant of dower to his father's widow - Fishery in Sutton Marr - New apportionment of the pasturage--An Oxgang with its appurtenances - A cottager's rights to meadow and grazing - The monks as sheep farmers - List of their Sutton possessions - The export of wool - Projected foundation of Kingston-upon-Hull

SIR JOHN DE SUTTON, SENIOR

Sale of his marriage - His marriage settlement - Ottringham Chantry endowed with Sutton meadows - Kingston-upon-Hull founded - Conbination against Piers Gaveston - Imprisonment of John - Joan de Sutton in Swine Nunnery - Edward the Second passes through Sutton - Death of John - The Effigy in Sutton Church

SIR JOHN DE SUTTON, JUNIOR

A Hildyard Heiress - Thomas Sampson, Rector - Renewed disputes over the West Carr - Dispute over an old tunic - Knighthood of the Black Prince - The College of St. James founded, and Sutton Church built - Its dedication - The Black Death - Thomas Sampson's will - Death of Sir John de Sutton - His son no more heard of - The tomb in the Church - His wife's dower *

CONTENTS. PAGE SIR THOMAS DE SUTTON

Bondmen transformed into labourers - Enlargement of the Northlands - Impoverishment of the monks - Dispute about Magnusdaile - Fresh mortgages - Disputes with tile makers from Beverley - The Children's Pestilence - New Statutes for the College - Marriage and death of the heir to the Manor - Succession of daughters of Sir Thomas de Sutton - Alice de Meaux inherits the Berewic

THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY

The Hastings Manor - Disputes as to burials in Sutton - Dripole in Sutton--Lost Lopholme - Public enquiries as to burials - Appeals to Rome - Lists of witnesses - Long lists of the dead during

Decision of the dispute - Annual Dedication Festivals - The Players of Sutton - Eminence of William, Lord Hastings - His execution

THE REFORMATION PERIOD

Increased freedom of the tenants and cottagers - Sub division of the Manor - Purchase of a portion by Cardinal Wolsey - Salvain's share acquired by the Corporation of Hull - The Reformation - Dissolution of the Abbey of Meaux, the Priory of Swine, the Carthusian Priory of Hull, and the College of St. James - Disposal of their lands

QUEEN ELIZABETH TO QUEEN ANNE, PART I

New landowners and tenants - The estates of the Constables - The Dudleys - The Alfords and the Abbey lands - Edward Truslove of the Rectory-house - Thomas Dalton acquires the Hastings manor and parts of the Manor of Sutton--The Daltons of Nuttles - Their estates go to the Withams - The last of Magnusdaile - John Truslove, the Watsons and Brom- flete - Burials in the Church

QUEEN ELIZABETH TO QUEEN ANNE, PART II.

Floods over the low grounds - The drains and their outfall--Scheme for a new drain - Sutton during the Civil War - The embankments cut - Soldiers quartered - Quakerism in Sutton - Persecution of the Ellikers and their brethren - A Quaker burial-ground - The Parish Registers - Arthur Harpur's gift to the poor - Churchwarden's Accounts - The Dog-Whipper and the Constable - The " Visited" People

OLD-FASHIONED FARM

The scattered lands of each farm - Their grouping in the Fields - Their shape - The Balks - Oxgangs and their appurtenances - Management of the tillage and pasturage - Names of places and of lands - Details of farms - Corporation Farms - Land-Commons and House-Commons - Great mouths - Lands of Cocke, Munby, Chamberlaine, and Samuel Dalton - Periodical change of ownership

OUR GREAT-GRANDFATHERS' DAYS

The reign of George 11. - Chamberlaine's Charity - Watson's Charity - The Masons and Pooles - The tithes and the lands of the College of St. James - Dis- putes among grantees of Church lands - The poet Mason - Mr. Thomas Broadley's acquisition of lands - Sale of the property of the Withams' - General appearance of the parish - The village farms - Sutton Mill - The roads - Costumes of the residents - Their manner of life and of death - The Fishery Feast - The parish flooded once more - Old Sutton drain cut - The Rev. Arthur Robinson - The Church services - Value of the benefice - The religion of the people - The last harvest from the common fields

ENCLOSURE OF THE COMMON FIELDS

Need for the enclosure - Mr. Charles Poole's interest in it - The enclosed lands made tithe free - Highways and private ways - Old Sutton drain cut - Possession of new allotments taken - Fencing in and the provision of new farmsteads - A lost allotment - Increased value of the land by enclosure and by drainage - Effect on the farmers and on the labourers

ANTIQUITIES OF MODERN SUTTON, PART I.

Consolidation of the shares in the Manor - Courts Leet and Courts Baron of Mr. Broadley - The Hastings Manor - The Rectory estate - Mrs. Watson's College - The White House ini 1820 - Improvements in cattle and in farming arrangements - Work of the farm - Spinning - Quietude of Stone- ferry--New families and new houses - Sutton Mill - Condition of the people as to health and security - The Press Gang - Robberies - Murder of John Taylor--The Parish Stocks - Superstition - The last witch

ANTIQUITIES OF MODERN SUTTON, PART II.

School--Letters - Amusements - Sporting - Guy Fawkes day - Carlin Sunday - Gooding - Plough-boys - Sutton Feast - Dress - Affairs of the Church - The Fabric and the Services - The Burying-stone - Protestant Dissenters New Drain through the Carrs - Railway to Hornsea - Conclusion