SUTTON, a parish in the middle division of the wapentake of HOLDERNESS, East riding of the county of YORK, 3 miles (N. N. E.) from Kingston upon Hull, containing, with the township of Stoneferry, 3658 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of the East riding, and diocese of York, endowed with £600 royal bounty, and £1000 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of H. Broadley, Esc. The church, dedicated to St. James, had formerly a chantry of six priests, endowed by John of Sutton, and valued, at the dissolution, at £13. 18. 8. per annum. Many of the most opulent merchants of Hull have residences in this neighbourhood. In the village are two hospitals; one of them founded by Leonard Chamberlain, and rebuilt in 1800, for the maintenance of two poor aged widowers and eight widows, each having a separate house and three shillings a week; the other erected in 1819, by the trustees of the late Mrs. Watson, for the reception of the widows and daughters of poor clergymen deceased. A house of White friars existed here in the time of Edward I.