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160 HISTORY OF CORN MILLING: VOL. IV.
IV. Rental of Liverpool mentions '' the Gorsie Field
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u
KING'S MILLS, , i
LIVERPOOL, above the windmill at the 1 owns hnd, lying on the
U. Townsend ^^^^ side of Windmill,
Liverpool Heath"; also "the Gallow Field
lying to the north of the nearer Towns End Evidences of
Mill,"
^j^j^ being Townsend Mill, then standing near the ruins
Port Mote, of Eastham Mill. In 1719, to avoid danger of fire,
i^- 29. y}^^ bakers were ordered to stack their gorse for fuel
*'^^'
"
on the gorse-field, near Townsend Mill, and fetch
it thence every day as they needed it. In 1731
Ibid., ix. 259. James Shaw was granted land ''beside the highway
[Islington] that leads from Townsend Mill to [West]
Derby Chapel." Other identifications of site in 1724
and 1780 are quoted in due course.
15. Townsend 15. The order of Queen Mary enforcing: the soke
Action
^^ ^^^
Against
^^^^^ "^^^^^ ^^ ^557 lost its force in the town
Burgesses,
within comparatively few years, and by the year 1587
15^7- disaffection had long been rife among the burgesses;
William More, as the licensee of Townsend under
Molyneux,
More, who
finding himself a considerable sufferer.
had married Dame Eleanor Molyneux,
was closely associated with Sir Richard in the legal
and the enmity which the
proceedings which ensued ;
corporation and townspeople seem to have consistently
exhibited towards the Molyneuxs, practically their
landlords, was now vehemently exerted against the
unfortunate mill-lessee. He was at this period not
only interested in Townsend Mill and the horsemill
at Liverpool, but also in those of Bootle *
*
MooreDeeds ^.D. Robert de
624.
Byron grants to Matilda his daughter his lands in Botel,
with one-sixth part of the watermill there.
ibid. 625, 1357- Matilda conveys the same to Richard, son of Adam de Aynsargh, of
Liverpool; and, on the same day, Robert de Byron, who calls himself " lord of
the sixth part of the manor and town of Botell,'' conveys the same, with the onesixth
share of the mill, to the same Richard de Aynsargh.
Ibid.. 270. 1394- Richard Munn, capellanus. Inq.p.mor. Was seised of certain lands
and the sixth part of a watermill at Bootle ; all of which he held of Richard de
Walton in right of his church at Walton, paying therefor twelvepence per annum.
Ibid. Richard
355. 1.537-
Frodsham, capellanus, of Liverpool, grants to Wilham More
and Alice his wife lands in Bootle, together with the sixth part of the watermill
in Botehill aforesaid, now in the tenure of John Bury at an ancient rent of lis. id.