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SOME FEUDAL MILLS. 163
comandinge the saide Giles Brookes John Bird and Rye Shawe and IV.
all others that have erected and made eny the afforesaid milnes or KING'S MILLS,
do use or occupie eny of the saide mylnes in Lyverpoole and West :
derby aforesaid and at any tyme sithence the fferst yere of her Mat'^^ 15, Townsend
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[The Iniunccon must
reign, upon such ^i-i^^ penalty as your jru
honor
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but extende y' selfe
to all suche mylnes any corne or malt at the same hereafter, or els
^^^^^^ "^^te, to surcease and forbeare to grind Action against
as be made sence the to appere before your honor in the Duchie
fyrstyereofherMat'- Chamber at Westm"^ at such day as your honor
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shall therin
funher.]
lymyte and appoint to shew cause
whye they ought not so to do : and also to
answere their unlawful! doinge in this behalf: And your orator shall
dayly pray
Burgesses
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&c.
[Some howes youe most mend the byll w*''' is putt into the Duche accordinge Moore Papers t;,
to tiiis copye and then the Iniunccon must be made accordynge to the byll ; and
then all is well.—W"* More.]
In due course the defence was entered as follows :—
The iointe and severall answeres of John Birde and Giles Brooke
defts to the Bill of Complaint of S' Richarde Molinex K"'
complt.
The said Defts saie and either of them for himself saithe That
the said bill of Complainte exhibited againste theis defts into this
honorable Courte is very uncerten and insufficient in the Lawe to
be Answered, for dyvers and sundrie manifest causes and faltes
therein appearinge (as theis defts by ther Counselle Lerned are
Informd). And the matters therin conteined are sett forthe,
continued and devysed as theis defts verelie thinke by one Willm
More of Banckhall nere Leverpoole in the said countie of Lancaster
esquier in the name of the said S' Richard Molinex and upon his
p'per costes and chardges ; psecuted either upon some private
malice conveyed by the saide Willm More againste theis defts or
•otherwise for his owne lucre and gaine, w%ut respect either of her
Mat""^ benefit or service, or the good estate of the whole inhabitants
of the saide town of Leverpoole, beinge an Alderman of the said
towne :
Neverthelesse the benefitt and advantage of exception to
the Incertentie and Insufficience therof to theis defts and either of
them at all tymes hereafter saved and reserved—
For answere and plaine declaracon of the trueth to the saide
surmysed matters the saide defts and either of them saie that they
and either of them are inhabitinge and dwellinge in the saide towne
of Leverpoole in the saide countie of Lancaster, wch towne of
Leverpoole is an Auncient Burroughe and porte or haven Towne
nere adioyninge to the sea coaste, into wch towne aswell divers
honorable p'sonages and other her Mat'^^ officers have used divers
times to repaire and resorte for the affaires of her highness
s'vices both out and into Ireland. And that her Mat'" forces and
soldiers for those pts appointed and ells where upon her highness
business have sundrie times usualy taken shipping and landed