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us HISTORY OF CORN MILLING VOL. IV.<br />

IV.<br />

KING'S MILLS<br />

LIVERPOOL.<br />

7. Eastham<br />

Windmill.<br />

A Royal<br />

Command.<br />

1557.<br />

8. Eastham<br />

Windmill.<br />

Evidences,<br />

1563-1606.<br />

Port Mote,<br />

i. 149.<br />

Ibid., i. 3/0.<br />

Ibid., i, 183.<br />

Ibid., i. 240.<br />

Ibid., ii. 131.<br />

Ibid., ii. 272.<br />

Ibid,, ii. 854.<br />

whom l<strong>it</strong>tle love was ever lost ]^ but <strong>it</strong> certainly<br />

suppressed the rebellious tendencies <strong>of</strong> the burgesses<br />

for another thirty years, during which Molyneux,<br />

holding a lease in chief <strong>of</strong> all the mills, let them<br />

to different speculators or millers. Eastham in 1557<br />

may have been already tenanted by the Boltons,<br />

millers, who are found there shortly after ; but<br />

Townsend in the same year was actually in the<br />

hands <strong>of</strong> speculators who let <strong>it</strong> to a tailor.<br />

8. Various incidental allusions to Eastham Mill<br />

continuously demonstrate <strong>it</strong>s existence ; and one in<br />

1563 indicates w<strong>it</strong>h tolerable distinctness <strong>it</strong>s s<strong>it</strong>e, by<br />

mention <strong>of</strong> '' the lane that driveth or leadeth from St.<br />

Patrick's Cross into the town field towards Eastham<br />

Mylne "<br />

; the cross being near the top <strong>of</strong> the present<br />

Hatton Garden, and the lane being the present Great<br />

Crosshall Street. In 1566, when to Queen Elizabeth<br />

plaintively appealed<br />

''<br />

your poor subject Ralph<br />

Sekerston [M.P.] <strong>of</strong> your grace's decayed town <strong>of</strong><br />

Liverpool," desiring that she might *' relieve us like<br />

a mother," he duly reminded the queen <strong>of</strong> the royal<br />

estate in " your majesty's own town," including <strong>it</strong>s<br />

''two windmills"; one <strong>of</strong> which was Eastham. f<br />

*<br />

1563. This year war was proclaimed in France and nowhere else. My<br />

lord the earl, my old lord <strong>of</strong> Derby, gave the town a bucke, a pure good one,<br />

and merellie disposed <strong>of</strong> and eaten in the common hall. Also Sir Richard<br />

Molyneux gave the town a bucke which proved but mean ; <strong>it</strong> was divided between<br />

Mr. Mayor, the aldermen his brethren, and the bailiffs ; whereat many commonerslowered<br />

and something murmured.<br />

t The corporation did not seem to be specially gratified w<strong>it</strong>h Sekerston's<br />

achievement in appealing to the lady <strong>of</strong> the manor on their behalf. It is, however,,<br />

but justice to the c<strong>it</strong>y fathers to note that they never forgot that "our sovereign<br />

lady the queen " was lady <strong>of</strong> the manor whose affairs they conducted. As was<br />

due, <strong>it</strong> was in her name that the port-mote Cura was convened in the Aula Burgi ;<br />

'*<br />

as<br />

there the mayor presided<br />

mayor for the said lady the queen " ; local<br />

inquis<strong>it</strong>ions were held *' on behalf <strong>of</strong> the said lady the queen according to ancient<br />

and laudable custom " ;<br />

and jurors were summoned on behalf <strong>of</strong> the Crown :—<br />

1565. Inquis<strong>it</strong>. capt. apud Portmote coram mro Johne Crosse p' antedca Dna.<br />

Regina maiore.<br />

1576. Convocatio in aula coram mr5 Thoma Bavand p' dca Dna Rna maior.<br />

1583. Curia portmot magnu tent vicesimo primo die Octobris anno regni dne<br />

Elizabethe regina &c. vicesimo quinto coram Rado, Burscough gen, pro dca Dna<br />

Regina maiore. Inquis<strong>it</strong>id capt ibm. pro dca Dna Regina scdm anticu et<br />

laudabil consuetudinem in aula coi ville p'dcte.<br />

1619. Noia jur. ad inquirend p. Dno Rege.

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