History of corn milling .. - Centrostudirpinia.it
History of corn milling .. - Centrostudirpinia.it History of corn milling .. - Centrostudirpinia.it
84 HISTORY OF CORN MILLING: VOL. IV. Ill- seem to have proofressed but indifferently. DEE The MILLS, . • , CHESTER, deputies, practical workers at the mills, enforced their 1 1 1 Ml ^11. 10 An ^^11 to^^ rights, if they did no more ; and there is Uneventful little evidence of their making any attempt to keep i40Q-Tc;i2 ^^^ soke together. Absenteeism became common ; and the annual value of mills and fishery, which had been ^200 in 1289, ^190 in 1356, and ^240 in 1377, had decreased in 1504 to the sum of ^74 paid by Hurleston. The fact was that vicarious management, such as the official clerks and keepers afforded, was insufficient to cope with the increasing difficulty of maintaining the ancient soke rights intact. 11. A New Era, 11. This seems to have been the conclusion of the 1532-1553- advisers of Henry VIII., who, on April 27, 1532, '' devised the said mills, with the multure and appurtenances, to Robert Brooke, esq., for [21] years, who Harl. MSS., afterwards assigned his interest in the same to Raphe ^^ ^' ^ ^" and Thomas Goodman." At this point opened a new era in the management of the mills. The Goodmans, like their heirs and successors, were practical business men, who went to work with a will to restore the falling fortunes of the place. The mills were enlarged and the harass- and their resources greatly developed ; ing labour of building up anew the rapidly disintegrat- ing soke rights in Chester was undertaken with vigour, and prosecuted relentlessly and at all costs, in numerous and protracted actions at law. One result of these ceaseless contentions was to produce a quantity of voluminous documentary evidences ; many of which, still existing, render the history of Dee Mills in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries infinitely richer in detail of law and custom than that of any other of the large mills of the kingdom of which any records appear to remain. The Goodmans, whose new regime soon made the welkin ring, had first appeared at the mills in
SOME FEUDAL MILLS. 19 Henry VIL (1504), when, in the compotus already mentioned, Hamon Goodman, with William Shawe Chester.' and Roger Smyth, '' farme y^ fulling mille at xj^' per 11. a New Era an." In due course Henry VHL, in 1532, as stated 1532-1553- above, demising: the corn mills to Robert Brooke, esq., ^^^^- MSS., r 11 .,,..^ 2083. 511. for twenty-one years, the latter assigned his interest in them to Raphe and Thomas Goodman. They at M^ Dee MiW^.—From the Harleian MSS. once heralded their management by bringing an action against Thomas Thorneton, alderman of Chester :— *' On August 14, 24 Henry VHL [1533], divers persons ibid., 2083. ^^°' ^^^' were bound for Thomas Thorneton that he should not carry any corn to be ground at any mills out of the franchises of Chester" ; while in 1539 Richard Anyon and several others were similarly bound in recognisances that they should not '' carrie cornes to any forren mylle." In the year 1553 Brooke's period of III. 85
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SOME FEUDAL MILLS.<br />
19 Henry VIL (1504), when, in the compotus already<br />
mentioned, Hamon Goodman, w<strong>it</strong>h William Shawe Chester.'<br />
and Roger Smyth, ''<br />
farme y^ fulling mille at xj^' per 11. a New Era<br />
an." In due course Henry VHL, in 1532, as stated 1532-1553-<br />
above, demising: the <strong>corn</strong> mills to Robert Brooke, esq., ^^^^- MSS.,<br />
r 11 .,,..^ 2083. 511.<br />
for twenty-one years, the latter assigned his interest<br />
in them to Raphe and Thomas Goodman. They at<br />
M^<br />
Dee MiW^.—From the Harleian MSS.<br />
once heralded their management by bringing an action<br />
against Thomas Thorneton, alderman <strong>of</strong> Chester :—<br />
*' On August 14, 24 Henry VHL [1533], divers persons ibid., 2083.<br />
^^°' ^^^'<br />
were bound for Thomas Thorneton that he should not<br />
carry any <strong>corn</strong> to be ground at any<br />
mills out <strong>of</strong> the<br />
franchises <strong>of</strong> Chester" ; while in 1539 Richard Anyon<br />
and several others were similarly bound in recognisances<br />
that they should not '' carrie <strong>corn</strong>es to any<br />
forren mylle." In the year 1553 Brooke's period <strong>of</strong><br />
III.<br />
85
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