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146 HISTORY OF CORN MILLING VOL. IV.
IV. Whereas we and o" predecessors of us the Quene have had
^^J^fil^M^tl'^' of ancient time divers and sundrie milles within our maner of
LIVERPOOL.
Westdarby and alsoe in our towne of Liverpole, and have had
yerlie rents and pffits for the same the time owte of memorie of
and that o" tenantes and Inhabitance within o" seid maner of
7. Eastham
Windmill.
A Royal
Command,
1557-
man :
Westdarby and o"" seid towne of Liverpole have used, the time owte
of memorie of man, to grende there come and grayne at the seid
milles, whereby our seid milles have byn mayntened,
our Rentes
truelie aunswerid to us and o*" predecessors, for us the Quene and
o' fermers and occupiers, some reasonable : gaynes
And as we byn creaditlye enformed that there be divers of
o*" tenauntes and other Inhabitanse of o' seid towne and o"" maner
of Westdarby, where you be o' stewarde, that have nowe of late erected,
builded and made divers and sundrie milles of divers kende of sortes
with" o' seid towne as alsoe ells where with" o' seid maner of Westdarby
in our seid county of Lancaster : and that there byn divers
and manie of o*" seid tenauntes and alsoe divers other psons, w'^'' have
byn used and accustomed to griende there corne and grayne at
o' seid milles, that now of late have grended ther seid corne at the
seid milles so latlie builded whiche hathe not onlie ;
byn to the grate
hurte and damage of o' fermers ther, but alsoe with" shorte time to cii
may growe to the utter decaye of our seid milles ther, and alsoe to the
disinherison of us and our herers and successors of us the Quene :
Wherefore we, mindinge the Reformacon thereof and the
pservacon of owre inheritaunse in the p'misses, will and requier
you and never the lesse charge and comaunde youe that youe
immedeatlie upon the sighte hereof, by v'tue of thes o'' Ires,
doe geve monicon and : warninge And also doe charge and
comaunde all and ev'y o' tenauntes, fermers and copieholders
dwellinge wth" o"" seid manor and towne and either of them, that
theye from the time of the seid monicon and warninge doe greinde
all there corne and grayne at somme of o' said milles and in noe
other : place And
alsoe that youe doe geve like monicon and warninge
to all other persons dwellinge and inhabitinge wth" the seid maner
or towne that they and ev'y of them w^'' have byn used and accustomed
to greinde ther corne and grayne at auncient milles wth" the
seid manor or towne shall from thenseforthe greynde ther corne
agayne at the seid aunciente milles, and not at anie mille erected and
builded in the seid maner or towne wth" the time of xx yeres last
unto suche
past, other then suche as be of o' milles, yf anie suche be ;
time as they shall shewe good matter before o*" Chancello' and
Councell of o" seid duchy whie and wherfore they owght not soe
to doe :
And that youe by v'tue herof doe geve comaundemt and charge
to ev'y of the seid psons that shall doe to the contrarie of entente
and effecte of thes o' Ires that they and ev'y of them shall appere at
a certen daye by youe to be lymited in o" duchy Chamber at Westfn
then and ther to aunswere ther facts and doinges therein : And
that youe in like maner send to us unto o' court of o' seid duchy the
noie of such facts and doeings whiche they have comitted and done
cotrarie to the effecte of thes o' Ires :