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SOME FEUDAL MILLS. 149
In July 1577 Port Mote ''enquired of the casting
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down of a stone coppe or ditch, being near unto Liverpool/
Estham Mylne, adjoining the land of Mr. Starkie, 8. Eastham
which was cast down by the appointment of Alice Windmill.
Abraham, widow, late wife of Richard Abraham"; i763_^6o6.
for which offence she was fined in October following port Mote,
twelve pence."^ In 1586 Queen Elizabeth renewed "• ^44, 1 53-
Molyneux's lease ; he to
" repair, sustain, make
and maintain the aforesaid mills, as well concerning
stones called millstones as otherwise, at his own
proper costs and charges." In 1587 public hostility
to the mills was once more rampant, and on this
occasion Molyneux had recourse to law ; bringing an
action against the prominent offenders, as related
more appropriately in connection with Townsend Text, post,
Mill ; and entering on his bill of complaint Eastham ^*
Milne first in the list of holdings under the town lease.
In the next year (1588) evidence of identification of
the site occurs ; Richard Gelybrand granting Ralph
Sekerston certain " land in the town field of Liver- Okill MSS.,
pool, in a place called Estham Dale, viz. the fifth
land from the wyndmille called the Estham Milne."
In 158^ the Molyneux rental t includes the receipt of
40S. per annum from John Bolton, of Eastham, for
*'the mill there called Eastham Milne"; out of which
sum 25s. was payable to the Crown. In 1598 Richard
Bolton is found paying the same rental ; and again in
1606.
9. But the ravages of civil war and the 9.
abrupt Corporation
close of the history of the great windmill at Eastham
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were at hand. In 1629 Charles I., pressed for funds,
sold to the Corporation of London his inheritance
* Starkie's land was on the heath at Eastham. Richard Abraham, above Port Mote, i. 149
mentioned, was tenant of this plot and of the neighbouring Gallows Field in 1562 J .,
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and in 1610 Isaac Abraham, yeoman, held " Milne Hey common in the town Ibid., u. 055.
field of Liverpool, lately in the occupation of Alice Abraham, his mother."
t Consulted at Croxteth Hall, by the courtesy of the Earl of Sefton.