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138 HISTORY OF CORN MILLING: vol. iv.
IV. and
KING'S MILLS,
LIVERPOOL, are
3. Eastham
Windmill.
Leases,
1257-1413.
Moore Deeds,
450.
all our mills of the said town." These mills
to be identified as those of Eastham and
Townsend respectively. Some years after 1357 one
of the two, that of Eastham, seems to have been
acquired, either on a leasehold or a copyhold tenure^
by one or more of the burgesses; being, in 1375^
in the possession of Richard Munn, priest, and John
Henthorn who then it ; re-conveyed to William the
son of Adam of Liverpool."^ Its owner, one of the
co-lessees of town and mills in 1357, was a prominent
public man of his day, several times mayor, and,
now, the first known mayor of Liverpool on record,
(4 April, 26 Edward III., i352).t Richard Munn's
deed of conveyance will be noted to state the site of
the mill in i 75:—
Sciant psent & futuri q^ nos lofe henthorn & Ricus Munne
capeH: dedim^ concessim'^ & hac piiti carta nra confirmavim^ Wift
fii Ade de Lyvpull & Kat'ine vxi eius. . . . Unu molendinu
ventriticu & tres seliones in le Micilholdefeld sup quas p'dtim
molendinQ stat iacent int' t'ra loh Carlele & t'ra Rad de Denbegh.
. . . Ecia una placea t're in le Boncstrete iac int' ten' sci Nic et
ten loh. de Stanay continent viginti pedes edificat & none pedes no
edificat in longitudie et octodeci pedes in latitudie. Que quide
mesuag' t'ras & leii cii molendino ventritico piscar turbar' pastur^
cu omibus p'tm suis huimus de dono &: feoffamento d'ti Willi fil
Ade.— Dat Ap^^ Lyvpull quinto die Martij a^ r. r. Edwardi t'tij a
conquestu quadragesimo nono.
Be it known to present and future that we, John Henthorn and
Richard Munn, priest, have given and conceded, and by this our
to William the son of Adam of
present charter have One
confirmed,
Liverpool
and Katharine his wife . . .
windmill and three
* Duke Henry, in 1 36 1, had granted William Fil Adam a rental of 20s. per
annum from the manor ; and this may have been the origin of his milling estate.
Lane, and Chesh. t Our earlier investigation of Eastham milling disclosed William de Grenolph
Hist. Soc, 1896. (June, 27 Edv^^ard IH., 1353) as a predecessor of the mayor of the year 1356,.
thitherto accredited as
William Fil Adam a
the first mayor ; the present researches, however, giving
still earlier precedency. See TAe Chapel of St. Mary
Ibid., 1902-3.
Moore Deeds,
257. 112, ii9»
del Key, Liverpool ; and Early Recorded Mayors ofLiverpool (Elton).
In addition to the mill, William also held a soke-oven in the town ; a quitclaim
of 1383 mentioning his " p prius pistrinum " in Castle Street. This bakery
had apparently been there in 1337, when a deed by Adam of Liverpool (father of
the above William) mentioned the tenement of the heir of Robert Pistor near
the house of the constable of the castle.