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SOME FEUDAL MILLS. 165
annum; and, In the receiver's accounts for 1348' KiNC'^SMTriq
to be leased, together with the farm of the markets, Liverpool.'
ferry-boats, etc., to John, son of William del More— n. Townsend
the same William More who for his redoubtable deeds Windmill,
at Poitiers in 1356 was created a knight-banneret on ^'547-i45o-
the field.
At this point may be cleared away a misapprehension
that has long prevailed as to the site of Townsend
Mill. This has been assumed to have been on the
shore at the north end of the town, where were
the Moore Hall and the Bank Hall, and other
properties of the Moore family. In fact, however,
the mill was situated at the east end of the town
at Eastham, and within two hundred yards of Eastham
Mill. Following the usual custom which had
originally led to this latter having been located
beside the old watermill, when a second windmill
had been established it had been placed not far
distant from the first. We shall find abundant
evidence confirming this allocation of Townsend to Text, post,
its true site at literally "the end of the town" at ^*
Eastham.*
By the year 1450 Townsend Windmill appears to
have been rebuilt, and in the compotus of Crosse for
that year, already quoted, is designated the "New ibid., ante,
from the town to ^' ^'^^'
Mill"; being then demised apart
Robert More for a term of years, according to an
indenture in his possession, at a rental of 13s. 4d.,
or one-half the rental of Eastham Mill.
* There is extant a published map, stated to be copied from an old MS. map of
Liverpool in 1539, over which have been marked the fortifications of 1644 ; and
on this, "Townsend Mill" is marked on the north shore. But no authority is
advanced for this map ; and as it depicts the so-called Tovk^nsend Mill as a tower
mill at a period when such mills were unknown, there need be little hesitation in Text, IL 293.
considering it to be fictitious and of much later date than it professes.
About the year 1792, shortly after the destruction of Townsend Mill, a tall App. to this
tower-mill was erected on the north shore, which the owner chose to call by Chapter,
the well-known name of the extinct old mill. This modern "Townsend Mill,"
the cause of the confusion above noted, is still existing amid a labyrinth of streets
near the Bramley Moore Dock ; its lopped tower being used as a warehouse.