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DRYPOOL - Being a History of the Ancient Parish of Drypool cum Southcoates
by M. Edward Ingram (1959)

7 PREFACE I should like to express my thanks to the Vicar of Drypool for giving me the opportunity of writing this short account of his ancient parish, since it is the parish in which I was born, and also for giving me unrestricted access to the parochial documents in his care. I am indebted to the Reverend Canon J. S. Purvis, OBE, MA, DD, FSA, the Reverend A. Tindal Hart, MA, DD, and to Mr W. Foot Walker for kindly reading my typescript and making valuable suggestions. I acknowledge the kind assistance of “John Humber,” of the Hull daily Mail, Mr. Basil Reckitt, Mr. John Lawson, MA, and especially my friend Francis Johnson, who has shown great interest and given me every encouragement during the writing of this history. Thanks must also be made to the Corporation of the City of Kingston upon Hull for permission to reproduce extracts from the Town’s Bench Books, the Trustees of the British Museum, and to the staffs of the Borthwick Institute of Historical Research and of the Hull Central Library for their unfailing courtesy and help during my researches. Extracts have been made from the Diocesan Records at the Borthwick Institute, and from the Transactions of the East Riding Antiquarian, the Yorkshire Archaeological and the Surtees Societies. Finally I should like to dedicate this little work to my friend, Mrs. Alice Gamen, who worked in the parish some thirty years ago, and who by placing in my hands a copy of Parker’s “Gothic Architecture” introduced me to what has become one of the most absorbing interests of my life. LEYS HOUSE,   SEWERBY. St. Andrew’s Day, 1959

8 Drypool Church from the South, circa. 1820. From a painting by T. F. Wilson, now in Wilberforce House Museum [Click image for larger version]