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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.