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130 HISTORY OF CORN MILLING VOL. IV.
IV.
KING'S MILLS,
LIVERPOOL.
1. Eastham
Watermills,
1257-1423.
Text, L 155.
Sheriffs Accounts,
7 Hy. VII. to 4 P.
&M.
Add. MSS.,
32105. 12, 129.
Moore Deeds,
"3-
Okill,
West Derby
MSS., iv. 161.
Ibid., iii. 205.
Moore Deeds,
142. 124.
the pool ; not actually on the pool itself, but upon
a small brook which there debouched into it. The
land on that side of the pool comprised the dale
of the small hamlet and manor of Everton.^ But
before 13 14 one of the earls, solicitous even then
for a ''
portion
greater Liverpool," had transferred a large
of this land from the liberties of Everton to
those of Liverpool ; hence Everton Dale was in the
territory of Liverpool, f The annexation seems to
have been made by Henry, first duke, in 1309, when
he granted to the burgesses a certain ten acres of land
adjoining the side of the town; J this being apparently
the larger or "mickle" Old Field of Liverpool. § The
mill may
have been there when the land was annexed
to Liverpool ; and, from that circumstance, or from the
fact of its site being in the old Everton Dale, it
was known as " Everton Mill "
; as, in matter of fact,
its successor on the same site (a windmill) also was.
In any case, the old watermill of Everton, in the
enlarged territories of Liverpool, really was a Liverpool
mill. From that date, so far as the records show,
* At Everton was conserved, till towards 15 16, as a source of manorial
income, the licensing of millstone makers. In the early days of difficult and
costly carriage, local stones were of course used for hand or power mills wherever
obtainable ; and for digging or quarrying them lords of manor ordinarily exacted
a rent. At Everton in the time of John of Gaunt mention occurs of a licence
for the millstone quarry ; and in 15 16 Sir R. Molyneux, Duchy Receiver for that
manor, includes in his accounts the same old licence quserendi petres molares
in quserra ibidem; though "nihil" was received for the same. The stones
available at Everton could but have been boulder-stones from the drift over-
lying the red sandstone formation of the district, and useful probably only for
querns.
f
X
1314. Four butts lying on Euerstandale Banck in the territory of Liverpool.
1322. Lands on Le Knolle [Everton Brow] stretching towards Euerstandale.
1338. Lands in the territory of Liverpool in £uerstondale.
In the possession of the Corporation is a copy of a grant signed by Henry at
Liverpool in April, 3 Edward IL, of "six" acres of heath-land "encostaunts
la quote de la ville '"
; the word "six " seeming to be a clerical error for " dix."
The grant of *' ten acres " is referred to in various other deeds; and Okill, in reproducing
a map of the district, has marked in the margin that the ten acres were in
this part of the Old Field. Respecting the map, a copy of which appears on
p. 129, he remarks, "^ The situation of the Old Field is shown in a plan obtained
from the Earl of Derby, and now preserved at Knowsley."
§ 1346. Le Lytil Oldefeld in Lyverpull.
1349.
Le Mekiloldefeld in Lyverpull.