Extract from Scunthorpe Evening Telegraph, March 11th 2002 TAKING A JOURNEY INTO VILLAGE'S PAST A NEW history of South Ferriby features recollections of the sentencing to death of a local rebel and his gruesome passing. The 152-page book, Journey to Another Land: Tudor and Stuart South Ferriby 1540 to 1639, penned by villager Raymond Carey, covers from the Lincolnshire Rising in 1536 to The Civil War, a period in which a third of the village died through disease in 1559. It also notes how a man was accused of adultery because he left his horse outside a woman's house all night. The book, sponsored by Rugby Cement, is due to be launched at the Rugby Cement Conference Centre on Sluice Road at 7.30pm tomorrow with a signing by Mr Carey. Copies of the book are available from him on(01652) 635691. According to Mr Carey the uprising was in the turmoil created by the dissolution of monasteries by Henry VIII, the institutions owning many lands in northern Lincolnshire. Ten were said to have interests in South Ferriby. The nearest House to South Ferriby was Thornholme Priory close to Appleby. "It had the largest annual income from lands and houses at about £11 after outgoings and profited from a half-share of the church in the sum of £9 9s after paying a chaplain £4 4s 4d." Also with interests in South Ferriby was Gokewell Priory, near Scunthorpe. "It is clear many of the villages of South Ferriby met the dissolution of the monasteries in 1536 with much trepidation. Centuries old relationships between tenant families and landlords were about to disappear and who was to take their place? "In a community where most depended for their existence upon the husbandry of the land and where freehold property was a rarity the prospect of such changes must have been traumatic. "Certainly the frequent bequests in pre-closure wills suggest a fond regard for the monasteries. However, their main impact may have been made through the charity they were supposed to dole out, the loss of which was to be referred to in the pleas of those who rose against the State in 1536. " South Ferriby is said to be the meeting place of George Huddeswell gentleman of neighbouring Horkstow, an important lieutenant of the Lincolnshire rebels, and Richard Aske, who was to lead the rest of the North in the connected rising called The Pilgrimage of Grace. Both were to pay for their involvement with their lives." George Huddeswell was executed at Tyburn in March 1537. In testimony Aske was to claim Huddeswell and 15 others had intercepted him at South Ferriby on a journey to relatives at Sawcliff and made him swear the rebels' oath. "The Lincolnshire Rising was to fail well before Henry's army was anywhere near Lincoln and George Huddeswell was one of the few gentry who paid with his life." He was found guilty of high treason and along with others sentenced to be hanged, cut down alive, disembowelled, have his entrails burned while still alive and beheaded. "As far as it is possible to know only George Huddeswell paid with his life and those gentry who had proven involvement such as such as Edward Kyddall, of South Ferriby, and Philip Tyrwhitt, of Barton-upon-Humber, went on to profit from the sale of the very monasteries they had attempted to defend."