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SOME FEUDAL MILLS. 89<br />
esq., testifies that, when he was the deputy Chamber-<br />
lain <strong>of</strong> Chester, divers times upon complaint <strong>of</strong> Ralph<br />
Goodman, divers persons who did carry <strong>corn</strong> and malt<br />
out <strong>of</strong> the c<strong>it</strong>y to other mills were sent for, and were<br />
restrained and bound in the<br />
by order and recognisance<br />
Exchequer from the same. George Wh<strong>it</strong>ehead states<br />
that when his and Bushell's horses were taken by<br />
were both bound<br />
the Dee millers, as aforesaid, they<br />
in recognisance <strong>of</strong> /^lo to the king's use that they<br />
should not thenceforth so carry any <strong>corn</strong> ; and they<br />
could not have their said horses or <strong>corn</strong> after <strong>it</strong> was<br />
ground till they had entered into such recognisances.<br />
An order <strong>of</strong> the Court was issued :—<br />
Upon hearing <strong>of</strong> the said cause, <strong>it</strong> was the 20th day <strong>of</strong> September,<br />
9 Eh'zabeth [1567], amongst other things ordered and decreed that the<br />
said defendant, her servants and assigns, shall henceforth, during the<br />
interest <strong>of</strong> the plaintiffs in the said [king's] lease made to the said<br />
Sir R. Brooke, cease the carrying or fetching <strong>of</strong> any <strong>corn</strong> or malt <strong>of</strong><br />
any c<strong>it</strong>izens, w<strong>it</strong>hin the c<strong>it</strong>y inhab<strong>it</strong>ant, unto any mills w<strong>it</strong>hout the<br />
same c<strong>it</strong>y, there to be ground, from the said Dee Mills : And that<br />
she, her servants, or any other by her procurement during the said<br />
time no further carry any the said <strong>corn</strong> upon the pains and for-<br />
fe<strong>it</strong>ures thereunto appertaining by the ancient custom used hereto-<br />
fore for remedy for the like <strong>of</strong>fence.<br />
Notw<strong>it</strong>hstanding this edict, the widow persisted in<br />
getting what custom she could from such inhab<strong>it</strong>ants<br />
<strong>of</strong> the c<strong>it</strong>y as were favourable to her and her cause.<br />
Consequently, by a second Bill <strong>of</strong> Indictment lodged<br />
against her three years later (September 15, 1570),<br />
<strong>it</strong> appears she, ''in contempt and breach <strong>of</strong> such<br />
order, still doth daily by her servants and assigns<br />
fetch and carry <strong>corn</strong> and malt out <strong>of</strong> the said c<strong>it</strong>y."<br />
Whereupon the Goodmans plead, "the said breach<br />
<strong>of</strong> the said order is so notorious and daily <strong>it</strong>erated<br />
that, unless due and condign punishment be provided<br />
and had, <strong>it</strong> is like to grow to an ill example and great<br />
encouragement to wilful and disobedient persons to<br />
comm<strong>it</strong> the like, to the contumacious and unlawful<br />
III.<br />
DEE MILLS,<br />
CHESTER.<br />
13. Action<br />
against the<br />
Abbey Mills,<br />
1567.