other had cut on it, a kind of staff, a chalice, and a hand in the act of taking a consecrated host from a paten, with this inscription, in ancient characters: -"Ici gist Walter Chapelain St. Kayingham, prie i ptr Lame." The Rectory House is a commodious brick building, with some fine old trees in the gardens.

The Village is pleasantly situated on an eminence, on the road from Hull to Aldbrough, about 7 miles N.E. by E. of Hull, and 4 N. of Hedon. The Wesleyan Chapel was built nearly fifty years ago. It is endowed with the interest of £20., left by Mrs. Deborah Harman. The parish school is endowed with two-thirds of the rents of an estate near Sheffield, bequeathed, in 1733, by Mrs. Bridget Briggs, to her sister for life, and, after her decease, to the parish of Sproatley, for schooling and apprenticing poor children. The charity took effect in 1742. The school is further endowed with £9. per ann., being the interest of £200., less the legacy duty, left by John Raines, Esq., by will dated in 1805. The master's stipend is £50 a year, and the mistress's, £25. When applications are made for the purpose, children brought up at the school are put out as apprentices, or are assisted on going out to service, with money or clothing. The poor have a dole of 20s. per ann., left by an unknown donor, out of a farm at Lelley; and the rent of about two acres of land at Fitling, left by Elizabeth Berier in 1686.

There is a Police Station in the village, a neat brick building, erected in 1840, for the Middle Division of Holderness.

SUTTON. This parish, which derives it name from being the south town of Holderness, includes Witham, Lime Street, the Groves, and Somergangs, forming the north-eastern suburbs of the town of Hull, and are now part of the borough. It also includes the hamlet of Stoneferry. The area of the whole is 4,450 acres; and the population in 1851 was 7,783 souls. The rateable value is £33,250. The manor of Sutton was held by the family of Sutton, under the Earls of Albemarle, Lords of Holderness. One of this family, as we have seen at page 11, is said to have cut the channel of the present river Hull, from Sculcoates gote to the Humber, for the purpose of draining the marshes within his lordship. In the south aisle of the church of Sutton, were formerly to be seen the arms of the family in glass, and at a later period there was in the chancel a grave stone, with the following inscription :— "Orate pro anima D'ni Thomæ Sutton." But these memorials have now perished, and the recollection of the family is at present only perpetuated by means of the monumental effigy of one of its members, through whom the seigniory and hereditary estates descended. This effigy is in the choir of the church, and though there is no name, the costume of the figure proclaims it to be that of the first Sir John de Sutton, who died 12th Edward III. 3 с

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(1339). The figure is that of a recumbent knight, on an altar tomb. The Archbishops of York and the Abbots of Meaux had lands in this parish, which were called manors, and the original manor of the fee of Albemarle became, by partition, to be named the manors of Sutton, Hastings, and Mauley. The lands of Sutton have passed through many hands, and the chief proprietors at present are Miss Broadley (Lady of the Manor), the Corporation of Hull, John Lee Smith, Esq., S. Priestman, Esq., G. W. M. Liddell, Esq., B. Haworth, Esq., William Hewitson, Esq., and Messrs. William North and John Cowell. In 1764 an Act of Parliament was obtained for enclosing the parish.

The chapel of Sutton was separated from the mother church of Waghen in 1223. In 1347 Sir John de Sutton, Knight, gave the advowson, tithes, &c., of St. James's, of Sutton, for the support of six chaplains, who were to celebrate every day in the said chapel, for the good estate of the King and Queen, and of the said Sir John de Sutton, and Alice his wife, and for their souls when they shall depart this life. It appears that the said Sir John built a rectory, or mansion, containing a convent hall, chambers, &c., for the master, chaplains, and their servants, and that this mansion, &c., was enclosed by a wall or trench; and that he invested the masters of the said chantry with the government of all and singular the inhabitants of the towns of Sutton and Stoneferry, and with a legal administration of all the lands, &c., belonging to the said chapel. In 1380 Alexander, Archbishop of York, by a new ordination of the statutes of this chantry, converted it into a Collegiate Society, consisting of a Master, or Custos, five perpetual chaplains, and two clerks ministering. He appointed one of the chaplains to the government of the cure of the parish of the said chapel, and decreed that the master and chaplains should eat together, in one house, in common, and and that the chaplains should lodge in one house, or two and two together, unless hindered by infirmity. He bound the master and each of the five chaplains to celebrate their own mass daily, and on all Sundays and festivals to say the matins, parochial mass, and vespers. This continued till the dissolution, when the chantry was valued at £13. 8s. 8d.

The Living is a Perpetual Curacy, certified at £10., and now worth £110. per annum. It has been augmented with £1,600. of Queen Anne's Bounty, and Parliamentary grants obtained from the year 1742 to 1820. Patron, Miss Broadley; Incumbent, Rev. John Adam Elridge.

The Church (St. James) is an ancient structure, comprising a nave, aisles, chancel, and west tower, containing three bells. The windows are chiefly square headed, and the nave and aisles are embattled, The cast window

of the chancel is of seven lights, it has been pointed, but the arch and tracery are gone. The aisles are separated from the nave by four pointed arches, resting on octagonal columns. The top of the chancel arch is blocked up, and the whole church is ceiled. The chancel is much lower than the nave, and nearly as long, and the walls of the chancel are not plastered. The tower is open to the nave. In a gallery under the tower is an organ, erected in 1831, and there are galleries over a portion of both aisles. There is a small painting of St. James, on the pulpit; and there are several monuments. The Village is large and well built, and pleasantly situated on a gently rising and salubrious eminence, about 3 miles N.E. of Hull, and is one of the country retreats of the merchants and gentry of that town.

The principal residences are Sutton House (G. W. M. Liddell, Esq.), a large handsome building of light brick, with a pediment in the south front, and surrounded by some good wood. Tilworth Grange (E. Spence, Esq.), a handsome house, with a conservatory at one end. East Mount (T. Priestman, Esq.), a good mansion, situated on rising ground, well wooded.

Elm Tree Cottage (John Lee Smith. Esq.) is a neat residence, at the east end of which is a small but elegant conservatory, which communicates with the drawing room. The lawn in front of the house extends over upwards of 20 acres, and in the pleasure grounds is an ancient octagonal font, brought from Leckonfield. The kitchen garden of this house is the site of the ancient manor house, the remains of which were pulled down in 1847, by Mr. Smith. There is a pump in the garden, which formerly stood in the kitchen of the manor house. The Parsonage is a handsome new brick villa.

The Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists have each a small chapel here. The School is endowed with £6. 16s. per annum, the dividends of £136., navy five per cents., purchased with £150. left by John Marshall, in 1803 for educating the poor children of Sutton under ten years of age. A new school is about to be built, on a site given by Miss Broadley.

The British School, erected in 1850, is endowed with £15. a year, from the funds of Chamberlaine's charity, for instructing twenty boys free.

The poor parishioners have the interest of £40., left by Benjamin and Ann Pead in 1784 and 1799; and two annuities, viz.:-20s. out of a farm at Stoneferry, and 26s. from Watson's Charity.

Leonard Chamberlaine of Hull, draper, bequeathed, in 1716, for charitable purposes, an estate at Sutton and Stoneferry, now consisting of three houses and about 96 acres of land, let for £257. per annum. After incurring the costs of a suit in chancery (£811.) without obtaining any final scheme or directions for the application of the rents of the estate, the trustees erected

two almshouses at Sutton, in 1800 and 1804, at the cost of £631., for the reception of ten poor women of the parish, each receiving 5s. per week, and an annual allowance of two chaldrons of coals. The trustees also distribute yearly about £25. worth of coals among the poor of the parish; and pursuant to the donor's will, they pay the above-mentioned £15. per ann. to the schoolmaster, £12. to the Unitarian minister of Hull, £5. to the schoolmaster of Hessle, and £3. per ann. to certain poor widows at Hessle.

Mrs. Ann Watson, in 1720, bequeathed her estate at and near Stoneferry, for the endowment of an hospital for four widows or old maiden daughters of clergymen, as well as for the payment of several other small annuities. The estates now comprise 217 acres, which let for about £300. per ann.; besides £1,900., 3 per cent. consols, and £300. navy 5 per cent. annuities. The old hospital was at Stoneferry, but, in 1816, the trustees commenced the erection of a new one at Sutton, which cost about £1,300. It has commodious apartments for eight inmates, who have cach £25. per annum, and coals. Stoneferry is a small hamlet, on the east bank of the river Hull, about one mile S.W. of Sutton, and two N. of the town of Hull. The name of this place is supposed to be a contraction of Sutton ferry. Before the erection of the North Bridge at Hull, the southmost passage or ferry from the wolds into Holderness was at Stoneferry. It is conjectured that there was a bridge here in ancient times.

Branceholme is a pasturage in this parish, adjoining Waghen. In early records the manor and Castle of Bransholme is frequently mentioned. In 1364, the Castle of Branceholme is stated to be held by Alicia de Sutton, wife of John de Sutton, Knt. Some documents refer to the Castle of Branceholme, as belonging to the manor of Swine. Near Branceholme, in the low grounds, is Castle Hill, containing about three acres, including the moat which surrounds it. It is composed of sand and gravel, about 16 feet high, and is situate upon a perfect level. There is a raised bank running from it to the present farm house, which is built upon an eminence equal in height with Castle Hill, and at about 250 yards distance from it. The hill is now nearly covered with trees. Some imagine that Castle Hill is the site of the castellated mansion of the Suttons; whilst others think it not improbable that Branceholme and Castle Hill were two minor outworks to the great. military station of the Romans at Swine.

Somergangs is a contraction of the south mere gangs or pasturage; the second syllable, Mer, from being level, and subject to the overflowing of the surrounding waters. Holderness House, the seat of B. M. and W. E. Jalland, Esqrs., stands in this hamlet. It is a handsome modern mansion, in the

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Elizabethan style, and has attached to it a freehold estate of 111 acres. new parish or ecclesiastical district was formed out of the parish of Sutton, in 1844, and the district church of St. Mark erected therein. (See p. 142.) SWINE. The chapelries of Bilton and South Skirlaugh, and the townships of Benningholme and Grange, Coniston, Ellerby, Ganstead, Marton, Swine, Thirtleby, North Skirlaugh with Rowton, and Wyton, and part of Arnold, are comprised in this extensive parish. The area of the whole parish is 13,650 acres, and the population of the parish in 1851 was 1,744 souls. The assessed property amounts to £18,861.

Swine Township has 193 inhabitants, and 2,190 acres of land, belonging chiefly to the Earl of Shaftesbury, the Lord of the Manor. The rateable. value is £2,598. The name of this place is supposed by some to be from the Saxon word Swin (porcus), with the addition of the final letter; but others are of opinion that the Saxons who settled here might have emigrated from a place of the same name in Germany, in accordance with their practice in many instances. There is a tradition that it derives its name from the Danish King Suein, or Sueine, and that this King died at Swine, and was buried there, but this is not supported by any evidence. To the west of the church of Swine is a tumulus, now covered with trees, in which it is said the King was buried; but the historians of the 11th century assert that he was buried at York. Indeed it is difficult to prove that the name Swine is of better or more honourable descent than from the Saxon Swin. It is well known that the Saxon lords of England kept innumerable herds of swine in their immense forests, and it has been observed by Mr. Thompson, in his History of Swine, that the village might have been a convenient place into which to drive the swine from the woods of Holderness, for examination or sale. At the time of the Domesday Survey the manor of Swine belonged to the Archbishops of York, and the first mesne lords who held it under them were the Hiltons, from whom it passed, by marriage, to the Meltons, then in the same way to the Darcys, and subsequently, by purchase, to the Micklethwaytes. The last Lord Micklethwayte bequeathed it to the Ewer family, and William Ewer, Esq., left it to Lord Shaftesbury, then the Hon. Cropley Ashley, in the event of the death of his younger brother, and of his niece, Lady Wood, without children; and on the death of Lady Wood, in 1796, Lord Shaftesbury came into possession of the manor.

Near Woodhouse, on the N.W. side of the village, is an enclosure of ten acres, the double ramparts and foss of a Roman Encampment are still traceable. The two ramparts are parallel to each other, and 300 yards in length, and the width of the fosse between them is from thirty to forty feet. The