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SOME FEUDAL MILLS. 139
selions of land in the Mickle Oldfield upon which the said wind- IV.
mill stands, lying between the lands of John Carlisle and Richard ^^J^IS^of ^'
Denbigh. . . . Also a plot of land in the Bank Street,* lying between i_
the tenement of St. Nicholas' Chapel and of John de Stanay, com- 3. Eastham
prising 20 feet built upon and 9 feet not built upon, by 18 feet; Windmill,
which messuages, lands, and tenements, with windmill, fishery, Leases
turbary, pasture, and all appurtenances we have had by the gift and
feoffment of the said William the son of Adam. Given at Liverpool,
fifth day of March, in the forty-ninth year of the reign of King
Edward, the third after the Conquest [1375].
This ancient windmill, with its three selions of land,
stood in the Mickle Oldfield, which, with the
Little Old Field, is well accredited as having been on
the town lands at Eastham. The practice ordinarily
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adopted when windmills were first erected was to Text, IL,
build them at the usual milling locality near the water- ^^' ^^•' ^ ^'
mills ; and it is quite in accordance with this practice
that we find the first windmill of Liverpool erected
at Eastham, on the open breezy heath above the
dam and pool of the declining watermill.f William
Fil Adam died in 1383, and in 1384 a passing Crosse Deeds,
allusion to the mill in one of the Moore Deeds— Moore Deeds,
land in le Mickleholdefeld juxta Eu'stan Mylne — 259.
seems to be its first recorded designation.
In 1390, another deed also testifies to the situation
of Eastham Mill in the Mickle Old Field :—'' one
selion of land juxta Eu'stan mylne, one selion in
Le Mekelholdefeld, and one selion in the said field
extending to the mill : in tampo p'dto vsq'
In 1394 John of Gaunt renewed the lease of the
town to the corporation, " together with all our mills
to the said town belonging," with the usual stipulation
* N.D. (c. 1257). Land in a certain street called Le Bonkestrete.
1560.
Bonke Strete, nowe called the Water Strete.
molend." Crosse Deeds,
* 271 (ii).
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t This high ridge of land, after the suppression of milling soke at the end of the App. to this
seventeenth century, was utilised for the erection of no fewer than nine windmills, Chapter,
extending southward from Eastham. Nearest to the latter were two at the top of
Shaw's Brow and Clayton Street, on the site of the Art Gallery, and closely
adjoining
and Copperas Hill.
the old site of Townsend Mill : the others were the mills of Lime Street
*