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SOME FEUDAL MILLS. 161<br />

and<br />

store<br />

Kirkdale *<br />

; and appears to have set great king's^iills<br />

on the possibil<strong>it</strong>ies to be evoked by a judicious Liverpool.'<br />

and energetic development <strong>of</strong> the<br />

<strong>of</strong> the district. The burgesses,<br />

<strong>milling</strong> resources 15. Townsend<br />

headed by two Windmill,<br />

future mayors, Giles Brooke and John Bird, had ^BurLesses"^<br />

deserted Eastham and Townsend; grinding at Crosse's 1587.<br />

Middle Mill and illic<strong>it</strong> horse-mills and water-mills<br />

w<strong>it</strong>hin the town, and at distant rural mills, even<br />

also at one across the Mersey at Birkenhead. The<br />

revolt was widespread and complete, though <strong>it</strong>s justice<br />

or injustice as against the millers is not now ascer-<br />

tainable. Certainly the burgesses, in their subsequent<br />

capac<strong>it</strong>y <strong>of</strong> defendants, made out a serious grievance<br />

1544-51, Rentals <strong>of</strong> Alice, widow <strong>of</strong> William More. John Bury, for Milne Moore Deeds, 93.<br />

rent, 5s. 6id. ; Henry Bury, for Milne rent, 5s. 6|d. per annum.<br />

1567. John Moore purchases the lordship <strong>of</strong> Bootle. Ibid., 633.<br />

Bootle watermill and the later windmill erected near <strong>it</strong> remained w<strong>it</strong>h the App. to this<br />

Moores till the dispersal <strong>of</strong> their estates in the eighteenth century. In 17 10 Sir Chapter.<br />

Cleave Moore endeavoured to turn the stream <strong>of</strong> the decaying watermill to account<br />

by obtaining an Act <strong>of</strong> Parliament to supply Liverpool w<strong>it</strong>h water from that<br />

source. A copy <strong>of</strong> the Act is transcribed in Okill MSS., xiv. 90.<br />

*<br />

N.D. (c. 1290). Le Milnefeld in Kyrkdale. Moore Deeds, 504.<br />

1317. Robert (Dominus de Kyrkdale 1317, Z?^^^ 523) mentions a road Ibid., 520.<br />

leading from le Breck usq' molend de Kyrkdale.<br />

1340. Ahce, widow <strong>of</strong> Robert <strong>of</strong> Kirkedal, grants away the windmill :— Ibid., 539.<br />

Pateat univ'sis p' p'sentes me Aliciam quefu<strong>it</strong> vx Robtide Kirkedal dimississe<br />

concessisse & ad t'mu v<strong>it</strong>e mee tradidisse Robto de Irlond mol'nd ventr<strong>it</strong>icu quod<br />

habui ad t'mu v<strong>it</strong>e mee. Habend & tenend d'to Robto & hered libe q'ete b'n<br />

& in pace : Reddendo inde annuatim m' ad tota v<strong>it</strong>am mea unu qr'tr avena ad<br />

f'm annuciacdis bte Marie v'gis & ad fm Sti lohis Bapt p' equales porciones p'<br />

omibz. Et ego p'dta Alicia & hered mei p'dtm Molend' vent'ticu cu p'tin contra<br />

omnes gentes warantizabim' & imp'petuvi<br />

defendem'. In cui rei testimoniu huic<br />

p'senti sc'pto sigillu meu apposui. Hiis testibz, Simon de Walton, Willo de<br />

Stonburgelegh, Ad fil' heyne. Masse de Kirkedall', John de Werall, & aliis.<br />

Dat apud Kirkedal die d'nica prox post f'm Sti Luce evangelist anno regni reg<br />

Edward t'cij a conquestii quarto decimo.<br />

Be <strong>it</strong> known to all. By these presents, I, Alice, who was the wife <strong>of</strong> Robert<br />

life to<br />

life. To<br />

de Kirkdale, have demised, conceded, and granted for the term <strong>of</strong> my<br />

Robert de Ireland the windmill that I have held as for the term <strong>of</strong> my<br />

have and to hold to the said Robert and his heirs freely, quietly, and in peace ;<br />

rendering me therefor annually one quarter <strong>of</strong> oats at the Feasts <strong>of</strong> the Annunciation<br />

and <strong>of</strong> St. John the Baptist in equal portions. And I, the said Alice, and my<br />

heirs shall warrant the same against all persons in perpetu<strong>it</strong>y. In testimony <strong>of</strong><br />

which I have affixed my seal to this present script. In presence <strong>of</strong>, &c.<br />

Given at Kirkdale, the Sunday next after the Feast <strong>of</strong> St. Luke the<br />

Evangelist, in the fourteenth year <strong>of</strong> King Edward III. after the Conquest.<br />

"Thomas del More in ye 19 yere <strong>of</strong> R. 2. anno 1396 held ye manor <strong>of</strong> Kerk- Moore Papers,<br />

dell." The lordship remained in the family till the early part <strong>of</strong> the eighteenth [53].<br />

century.<br />

VOL. IV.<br />

L

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