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bene." He did not know any one else who did m-
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MILLS,
except with regard to oatmeal, " and excepte they Chester.
bought Toll Corn at Millnes, which they receyved in 29. Buying
meale without payinge any toll for or out of the same." Ground Malt,
It would be much more loss and damage to him to
grind
his malt at Dee Mills than at a horse-mill.
Weaver admitted that for three years past he had Harl. MSS.,
not ground at Dee Mills. Formerly, indeed, he, by ^° ^' ^'^^'
courtesy and for his convenience, and upon threats
to take the water-supply from him, did grind there ;
but he received great wrong and prejudice there, and
had his malt cast away with shovels before his own
face, and was abused by the complainant's millers and
servants.
The result of this action also does not seem to
appear among the scattered MSS. Still, as the
practice of purchasing grain ready ground and import-
ing it into a soke district was ordinarily prohibited, Text IL,
the Court would be compelled to decide this case, as
others, in favour of the soke millers.
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30. Concurrently with the campaign against the 30. Action
ground-malt ring an action was maintained by Gamull j^^f/JJ.^ j5°8^
against four men—William Reeve, Thomas Reeve,
William Charyles, and John Seller—who from the
position of working millers had just risen to the higher
dignity of lessees of a mill. The Reeves, in their
appeal for a stay of August 24,
proceedings, stated that on
1635, Thomas Nevitt, of London, gold- Harl. MSS.,
smith, demised and granted the water corn mill called
Heckenhall Mill, near Chester, for twenty-one years,
at the yearly rack-rent of ^^150, to them; and ''to
their understanding they became lawfully possessed
thereof for the term of twenty-one years." They
worked the mill for about a year, sending horses into
the city for such corn as they could procure, for the
most part in small and littel parceles and bagges, and