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150 HISTORY OF CORN MILLING: vol. iv.
IV.
KING'S MILLS,
LIVERPOOL.
9. Corporation
Intrigues,
1629-1644.
Port Mote,
iii. Id.
Memorials of
Liverpool,
1875, i. 115-
Port Mote,
iii. 228.
of the manor of Liverpool. In the deed of con-
veyance the mills were not specifically mentioned ;
but that they were included in the sale is evident
from the total annual reserved rent to be paid to the
Crown— ^14 6s. 8d.— the amount at which it had
remained since the time of Henry VIII. In the next
year
occurs the last allusion to Eastham Mill as still
standing; the corporation directing in 1630 that
''
Richard Rose of Everton shall remove the stones
that now lie upon the usual way from Estham Milne,
and that the way shall be where it was anciently afore."
In 1635 Molyneux, seizing his opportunity, purchased
the fee-farme of the town from the speculators who
had acquired the same from the London Corporation,,
thus becoming actual lord of the manor. The deed
contains the usual proviso — " together with all and
singular farms, messuages, cottages, mz//s, &c., situate
within the said town "— which, though summarised
by Picton as ''additional verbiage, mere words without
any specific application," nevertheless definitely conveyed
to Lord Molyneux the shortly-to-be-contested
ownership of the mills.
In 1638 the corporation approached Charles L
with the object of ejecting Molyneux. On May 21
of that year it appeared that the mayor and two
aldermen had been to London on the business of
an action brought against the town by Lord Molyneux
; and that they had presented a petition to
the king, calmly referring to Molyneux's right of
possession by purchase as ''the claims of Lord
Molyneux in virtue of a late grant made by the
Londoners [the Corporation of London, who had
purchased Liverpool] to the said Lord Molyneux";
and requesting the king, "if it please his Majesty, to
grant
the said town and the whole emoluments thereof
to the mayor, bailiffs, and burgesses of Liverpool