Sutton - in - Hoiderness. By Thomas Blashill. (W. Andrews and Co., Hull.)—It is
not easy to choose from the mass of information which Mr. Blashill has collected about the history of Sutton an adequately illustrative specimen. Perhaps an outline of the dispute between Sayer de Sutton (the second) and the monks of Meaux will serve. First, there was a quarrel about some pasture-land. It was referred to Pope Honorius III., and ended in compromise. They had before pasturage for forty cows, and they now get as much more. Some time afterwards Sayer de Sutton settled on his son Amandus, in view of his marriage, a considerable farm, including one hundred and twelve acres of tillage, house, pasturage, &c. The marriage did not come off, and Amandus entered the monastery as a novice, and shortly after- wards died. After his death the monks produced a deed of gift conveying to them the whole of the estate which had been settled on him in view of his marriage. They had the countenance of William de Fortibus, a neighbouring noble, and might have secured the whole but for an act of violence by which one of Sayer's bondmen was killed. The result was another compromise. By the payment of sixty marks the monks got possession of half the disputed estate. They went on acquiring portion after portion. However this or that proprietor might resist, they were always on
the watch, and the atrong religious emotion of the times was on their side. The history of the parish is traced down to recent times, and always in an interesting way.
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