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of rarliament ; that is, that the reserved rent which Liverpool.
KING'SMILLS.
had been paid by Molyneux to the Crown (after his lo. Eastham
Windmill.
purchase), and was now payable by the corporation
to Parliament (after their grant), should be com- pounded
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for and extinguished. This they effected,
and the old ''King's Majesty's Corporation" became
de facto ''Lords of the Manor of Liverpool" and of
all the sources of its manorial revenue, including the
remaining mill. In 1657 they made a " Rentally of
burgage rents lately purchased from the trustees, Port Mote,
in it the^^^'^5i-
according to Act of Parliament"; including
entry, " Edward Moore, esq.,
for the Townes end
Milne and the horse milne, and certain parcels of
land," but of course making no allusion to the extinct
mill at Eastham.
In 1654, and the year following, the corporation,
as lords of the manor, entertained the idea of rebuilding
Eastham Mill :—
1654. Dec. 19.— It is ordered by the Assembly that the present Ibid., iii. 605.
mayor and bailiffs shall bargain and issue out monies for the
rebuilding of Eastam Milne, and shall take course to preserve the
materials that are left and make sale of such as will not serve : again
And shall cause Mrs. Bixsteth to deliver to them the old millstones
which Mr. John Williamson borrowed and took from thence.
iii. 610.
1655. Aug. 22.— It is again ordered that Mr. Mayor and the Ibid.,
bailiffs shall treat with Richard Whytehead or any other about the
setting up of Eastam Milne : and shall have power to contract and
agree with him or any other for a certain barn and rent for the best
advantage of the : Corporation and to reserve the ancient rent of
twenty shillings per annum burgage : and make what more they can
well agree for.
1655. Nov. 20.— Ordered, that Mrs. Bixsteth shall restore a Ibid.,
milnstone which was taken from Eastham Milne or give satisfaction
to the bailiffs for it.*
The corporation, however, never restored the mill.
iii. 622.
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In the rental of 1657 appears "Margaret Bixsteth, widow, for the house Ibid., iii. 651.
late Williamson's, and more for her barn"; and in the rental for 1668 are 871.
*'Mrs. Bixsteth for a barn " and "Mr. Williamson for John Stursaker's house,
and more for the Eastham milner's messuage." In 1695, when soke was practically
abolished, one Thomas Bixsteth was granted liberty by the corporation to Ibid., iv. 364.
build a windmill.