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SOME FEUDAL MILLS. 135<br />

Dam, East-town [Eastham]." The<br />

dam or " causeway "<br />

appears in a<br />

"<br />

rental <strong>of</strong> about 1545— one land at<br />

Euerton cossy, two lands shooting<br />

upon eastm mylne,<br />

the Galow felde "<br />

two lands in<br />

; and again in a<br />

conveyance <strong>of</strong> 1549 — *'a cr<strong>of</strong>t nygh<br />

Eu'ton causey.' In 1708 some<br />

reminiscence <strong>of</strong> the Eastham Dale<br />

<strong>of</strong> 1314 may be traced in the Easting<br />

Dale <strong>of</strong> the poor-rate book ^ and<br />

;<br />

in 1720 a sketch-map belonging to<br />

the Earls <strong>of</strong> Sefton, former lords <strong>of</strong><br />

the manor, shows the diminished<br />

brook still running to the *' East-<br />

Dam." But towards the<br />

tyn Myll<br />

close <strong>of</strong> the eighteenth century the<br />

drainage <strong>of</strong> the uplands at length<br />

destroyed the stream ; and in 1790 and 1807 the maps<br />

Eastham Mill-pool in 1807.<br />

Eastham Mill-pool and<br />

Townsend Mill, 1720.<br />

IV.<br />

KING'S MILLS<br />

LIVERPOOL.<br />

2. Eastham<br />

Watermills.<br />

Reliquiae.<br />

Moore Deeds,<br />

108, 363.<br />

* " List <strong>of</strong> lands and enclosures in Liverpool : extracted from the poor-rate Okill MSB.<br />

book for the parish, now [c. 1750] in the possession <strong>of</strong> Henry Holmes, Esq." iv. 526.

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