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152 HISTORY OF CORN MILLING: vol. iv.
IV. that of the
KING'S MILLS,
LIVERPOOL.
mayor
9. Corporation
in the presence
record, testifies to his
and influence at a meeting of the corporation
in the previous December, at which it was
Intrigues,
1629-1644.
Port Mote,
iii. 397.
10. Eastham
Windmill.
Destruction,
1644.
Port Mote,
iii. 502.
ordered that the goods and merchandise of ''rebels,
traitors, felons and other malefactors " should be
seized by the corporation. He was of the ancient
local family, seated at Bank Hall, long associated
with Townsend Mill.
The appeal of the Parliamentary corporation to
the Cromwellian Legislature proved successful, and
in October 1646 an order of Parliament invested the
borough with the the town :—
sequestrated Molyneux estate in
1646. Oct. I.—Whereas a Wyndmillne and ferry boats formerly
belonging to the Corporation of Liverpool were late in the possession
of Richard Lord Molyneux, who is in hostility against the Parlia-
ment, and by his power with the Lord Cottington,
late Master of
the Courte of Warde and Liverie, brought a vexatious suit against
the said Corporation, to their great damage and impoverishment :
And whereas all the writings and ancient records belonging to the
said Corporation were taken away when that town was taken by the
enemy : Considering the exceeding great losses and sufferings of
that said town, and to the end that the ancient right of the said
Corporation may be restored, &c. ; the Lords and Commons
assembled in Parliament do order and ordain that the said Corporation
shall have, hold and enjoy the said Wyndmilne and ferry boats
and the rent of £,2.0 per annum formerly paid by the said Corporation
to the said Lord Molyneux, till both Houses make further order.
10. But while in 1644 the corporation had prayed
to be granted " windmilnes," the above order only
empowered them to seize "a. wyndmillne." This
was that of Townsend, the only one left on the
Molyneux estate in Liverpool ; the other, Eastham
Mill, having apparently been destroyed during the
siege that had closed with the capture of the town
by the Royalists, June 2, 1644.
In 1650, the year after the death of Charles L,
the corporation lost no time in completing their
holding over the town ; deciding that " the fee-farme
rent of this borough, which is ;^I4 6s. 8d. per annum.