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162 HISTORY OF CORN MILLING: vol. iv.
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LIVERPOOL, had there been any real gravamen m their complamt—
15. Townsend had there been entertained, not a desire to ruin the
Windmill,
mills, but simply a wish to remove some incidental
^BumesS'^^ grievance — then an appeal to the Duchy Court was
1587. quite open to them ; and an action, as extensive and
concerted as that they adopted to promote rebellion,
could just as easily have been adopted to secure legal
redress. More took an active part in promoting an
action against the offenders, and the initiatory bill of
complaint, annotated by him on behalf of Molyneux,
still exists :—
Cal. Due. Lane, To the Right honorable S' ffancs Walsingham K* principall secretary
30 Eliz. iii. 223. to her Mat% and Chancellor of the Duchie of Lancaster :
In most humble wyse complayninge shevveth unto your honor
S" Richard Molyneux of Sefton in the countye of Lancaster Knight
That whereas her Mat'® is Rightfully seised in her demesnes of ffee
as in the Right of her Duchie of Lane: of and in fyve Wyndmylnes
wth" her Mt'*"^ Manor of West Derby comonly called Eastham Milne
Townsend Milne Derby Milne Ackers Milne and Wartre Milne in
the s*^ county of Lane: nere adioyninge to the townes of West darby
and Lyverpoole in the said : county and being so therof seised
hath demysed and lett the same to fferme unto your orator by
Indenture under the Scale of this Court for divers yeres yet to come
yelding therefor yerely duringe the said terme a certen yerely rent
and fferme to her Mat'® her heires and successors : And wheras all
the inhabitants of West darby and Lyverpoole aforesaide by all the
tyme wherof the memory of man is not to the contrary have used
and of Right ought to grynd all ther corne at her Mat'®^ mylnes
payinge and allowinge suche Tolle as of auncient tyme hath bene
used and accustomed :
So
it is if it may pleas your honor that one
Giles Brookes John Bird Rye Shawe and divers others inhabitants
of Lyverpoole aforesaid have erected and made divers horse mylnes,
hand milnes and quernes in Lyverpoole aforesaid and in West Derby
aforesaid, and grindeth and do dayly and from tyme to tyme grind
at the same very muche mault rye barly otes and other corne and
grayne spent in the sev'rall mesuages of the said Town of Lyverpoole
and the Manor of West Derby ; by reson wherof the custume of
grist of her Mat'^' said mylnes is very greatly hindered decayed and
ympayred, to her Mat'®^ disinheritance and yo"" orators hindrance in
his saide fferme : So as the p'fit of the said Wyndmylnes ...
[is not sufficient] to pay the yerely
rent and fferme reserved and
due for the same to her Mat*® :
In considerac5n wherof may it pleas your honor to graunt unto
your orator the Queenes Mat'®' most gracious Writt of Iniunccon