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86 HISTORY OF CORN MILLING: vol. iv,
II
J- twenty-one years expired ; and on June 24 of that year
CHESTER.' Edward VI. disposed of ''the said milnes, with the
11. A New Era appurtenances and other things thereto belonging in
1532-1553- fee, with all profitts as fullie as the said Robert Brooke
Harl. MSS., or anie other owner or farmer thereof had had or held,"
to Sir Richard Cotton, comptroller of his household,
and Dame Jane, his wife, in exchange for certain lands
in Leicestershire. The rental had by this time been
raised, under the energetic management of the Goodmans,
from the ^74 of 1504 to ^112 15s. 2d.; and
Sir Richard Cotton, on obtaining possession, seems to
have promptly renewed the Goodman lease.
12. Demise of 12. Before the close of the year 1553, and because
Tithes, 1553. of the events comprised within the few preceding,
months, the dean and chapter of the new cathedral
of St. Werburgh acquired the tithes of the mills.
These, which had originally been granted to the
abbey by Earl Richard in 1119, being
then worth
;^5 per annum, were now leased to Edward Plankney,.
of Chester, at the valuation of £
comes, and malte of Dee Mills ;£"7, and for the tithes of fish 40/-.
13. Action 13. The mills at Northgate, which till the Dissoagainst
the '
j-5y
lution had belonged to the abbey, had since been
worked for some time by Thomas Bavand, who had
been sheriff of Chester in the same year as Ralph
Goodman had been mayor (1547). Bavand had died
and left his widow dependent on the old abbey mill for
a living, and she accordingly carried on the business^