HUNFLEET, (Yorkshire, W.R.) or HUNSLET, on the S. bank of the Are, almost over against Leeds, and in its p. was improved
from a dog-kennel, as the name imports, to an eminent T. for clothiers, and then to a corp. in the R. of Cha. II. because
by making that sort of cloth called Northern-dozens, it had much increased the crown revenue. It had formerly a manor-
house and park, which bel. to the Gascoigns, by the marriage of whose heiress it came to Sir Tho. Nevil, whose descendant,
Sir John, forfeiting it in the R. of Q. Eliz. by rebellion, she gave it to Sir Edw. Cary, whose posterity sold it to the
townsmen, of whom the Fentons being the chief, they were lately, if they are not still, Lds. of it. The widow of Mr. Tho.
Fenton lived to see herself grandmother and great-grandmother to 138 children, who lived for most part at the neighbouring
village of Hunfleet-Woodhouse.