17th Century
The main range of the Manor is at least Of 17th-century origin and was timber-framed.
Woodhouse Grange in the 16th and 17th centuries it was often leased by the Constable family
In 1605 the former priory estate was in dispute between Sir Henry Vaughan, lord of the manor, and Sir Henry Lindley and John Starkey.
The church plate includes a silver cup and cover made in York in 1609 by Peter Pearson
Some Names from the Parish Registers for the 1620’s
Smith, Bouill, Hastings, Cotes, Wray, Camplogen, Vaughan, Cooke, Haddlesey, Darling, Foster, Butlor, Hutham, Marshall, Hessell/Hessle, Blanchard, White, Browne, Favour, Mitchell, Richardson.
In 1625 the Parish Register spells the village name ‘Sutton Super Derwent’.
The advowson descended with the manor, though presentations were made by Miles Dodson, by grant from Sir Henry Vaughan, in 1625
More work was done to the Church in the beginning of the 17th Century, probably by Peter Cooke who was rector for 30 years, dying in 1625.
In the church there are monuments which include a brass to Peter Cooke, rector (d. 1625).
John Favour, rector 1625-50, was a Puritan.
An entry in the Parish Register for 1634:
William son of Michael Brittan, a wandering beggar whose wife was here delivered, Baptism, 21 September 1634.
An entry in the Parish Baptisms Register for 1635 states: Bastard sonne of Elizabeth Varvite and deaf and dumb woman and as ? no htmently? Suspected
The Vaughans held the manor until 1649, when it was conveyed to Sir Thomas Fairfax.
The Church was valued at £100 in 1650.
Sir Thomas Fairfax sold the manor in 1661 to George Monck, duke of Albemarle.
Josiah Holdsworth was ejected from the rectory in 1662.
The Glebe Farm house was mentioned from 1663.
Timber was being felled in the woods at Woodhouse in the 1660s by Josias Prickett of Allerthorpe, a sub lessee of the Constables.
From the Baptism Register of 1665: Bastard Elizabeth, daughter of Mary Nuttall who clandestinly came from Shipton farm ? and not withstanding a justice warrant by ? she was sent hither again ? afterward crept in here a bore ? elizabeth who was baptized July 2nd 1665.
Two non-conformist recusants from Sutton were mentioned in 1669.
A Smallwood was mentioned in the Parish Registers in 1669.
Rector of the parish in 1669 was James Blackbeard.
In 1672 57 households were included in the hearth-tax return, 7 of them exempt. Of those that were chargeable 43 had only one hearth each, 4 had 2 or 3, and 3 had Six.
The church was said to have been out of repair in 1676 and the east window could be of that date.
A single Protestant dissenter at Sutton was reported in 1676.
A grammar school master at Sutton was mentioned in 1677.
George Monck's son Christopher, duke of Albemarle (d. 1688), left his estates in trust to several kinsmen and Sutton upon Derwent passed to one of them, Sir John Granville, created earl of Bath (d. 1701).
In the south of the township, Bank island marks an earlier change in the river's course. The 10-acre Banks close was already in 1690 'environed and compassed' by the river.
The advowson descended with the manor, though presentations were made by Christopher Store in 1698.
A single Protestant dissenter at Sutton was reported in 1676.
1683 George Smallwood & Joanna Cammis both of this town (sic) marry. A licence Jan 1st 1684.
A petty school master at Sutton was mentioned in 1698.
In the church there are monuments which include a tablet to James Blackbeard, rector (d. 1698).
The common meadows in the late 17th century included Town, Stock, and Grass carrs, Kirk ing, and Town Norlands or Northands. Of the common pastures, in the late 17th century the rector had cow-gates in South wood and ox-gates in Wynam Bottom. In Woodhouse two men occupied their own moors or commons, but the rector was entitled to take turves there.
A fishery belonging to the manor continued to be recorded in the 17th century and later
In the late 17th and 18th centuries the glebe comprised 4 bovates, or 16 a., of open-field land, about 10 a. of meadow, 20 gates in the commons, and 6 cottages
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