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132 HISTORY OF CORN MILLING: vol. iv.
IV.
KING'S MILLS, Liverpool
LIVERPOOL.
1. Eastham
rural windmills at West Derby.* The site
Accers,
of this old
Wavertree, and
Everton watermill
was the only one possible over a radius of
Watermills,
1257-1423.
Okill, V^est
Derby MSB.,
iii. 205.
Maps, pp. 129,
135-
Moore Deeds,
III.
Add. MSS.,
32105. 206.
several miles ; so that little hesitancy need be ex-
perienced in endorsing the identity claimed for it in
the unpublished MSS. of the local antiquary OkilL
The Moss Lake stream coursed across the heath
and down a steep declivity in the daleside ; and at
this spot the pool and dam were constructed and the
mill erected ; the stream a few yards farther (near
the junction of the present Richmond Row with
Scotland Road) running into the pool nearly opposite
the Castlefields Mill. It is this mill which seems
to be alluded to in the inquisition of 1322 and its
;
dam or dyke in two later deeds :—
1337. One selion in a certain field in Liverpool called the
Dykfeld de Eu'ton.
1358. Four selions in the town of Liverpool near Le Dckfeild
de Euerton.
No direct reference to the mill seems anywhere to
occur ; and though in 1 384 we read of certain land
Moore Deeds, ''juxta Eu'stan Mylne," the mill in question was
259.
no doubt the windmill which before that date had
Text, post, p. 184.
lying between the said mill and le ffendour :—To have and to hold the said mill„
with pool, water-race, and land, and with reasonable entrance and exit, from Christmas,
13 Henry IV., for thirty years thence following ; paying yearly to the said
Thomas, his heirs and assigns, 9s 2d. in silver at St. John the Baptist's and St.
Martin's in Winter in equal portions. And the said Richard, Agnes, Robert, and
John shall well and competently repair and sustain the said mill, with pool
and appurtenances, at their own proper costs during the above term, and at the
end shall deliver up the same in good condition : and the said Richard, Agnes,
Robert, and John have conceded by these presents, that if it happen all of therrk
should die during the said term, then it shall be lawful for the said Thomas, his-
heirs and assigns, to enter and possess and retain the same in perpetuity, asbefore
this grant. And if the said rent be wholly or in part in arrear at any
term, then the said Thomas, his heirs and assigns, shall distrain upon the said
mill, &c., and take sufficient from such distraint to fully satisfy all such arrears^
And the said Thomas and his heirs shall warrant the said mill, pool, water-race,,
and parcel of land to the said Richard, Agnes, Robert, and John, or whichever
of them by the will of God live longest, against all men, till the end of the said)
term. In testimony of which the parties to this indenture have alternately fixed
their seals.
Given at Ashton-in-Makerfield, Monday of the Feast of Assumption,,
Henry IV. after the Conquest, thirteenth year.
* These appear in Liverpool leases from 1475.