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154 HISTORY OF CORN MILLING: vol. iv.
IV.
KING'S MILLS,
LIVERPOOL.
10. Eastham
Windmill.
Destruction,
1644.
Port Mote,
iii. 706.
Ibid.,
iv. Ill, 290.
Text, ante,
p. 136.
11. Townsend
Windmill,
1347-1450-
In 1660 the Restoration changed the face of affairs;
and the erstwhile Royahst corporation, that had
sought to curry favour with and bribe Charles I., and
then, in his waning days, had become Parliamentarian
and accepted sequestrated Royalist properties, once
more sailed safely with the times and became Royalist ;
seeking on August 20, 1660, to avoid the frown of
Charles II. by a complete surrender
acquired burgage rents :—
of their lately
The fee-farme rent of ;£"i4 6s. 8d., lately purchased by this
town, shall be granted and resigned to the King's Majesty by a
grant under the Town's Seal, with an humble address.
Thus Lord Molyneux eventually came to his own
again, but neither did he rebuild Eastham Mill.
Round its ruins the old place-name lingered some
little time longer. In 1679 it was ordered that ''a
sufficient bridle way be set out from the narrow way
which leads from Everton to Eastham Mill, according
to ancient custom"; and in 1691, for not paying
homage to Liverpool Port Mote, a fine was inflicted
on one, " James Goore of Eastham."
The approximate site of the structure was on the
high ground on the east side of the present Thurlow
Street, overlooking the pool
of the watermill in the
Dingle, in Down Street. Like Townsend Mill, which
stood only about a couple of hundred yards away, it
was of course a timber erection of the primitive post
type.
11. Townsend Mill does not appear in the records
for nearly a century after 1257 when Eastham wind-
mill was in existence. Duke Henry, who died in 1361,
had possessed in Liverpool '' two windmills and a
horse-mill "
; one of the two windmills being that of
Eastham, the other that of Townsend. In an Extent
of the duke's possessions in 1347 they had been
stated to be worth 10 marks (^6 13s. 4d.) per