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thinketh, whiche milne as this deft thinketh hathe had longe con- ^ IV.
tynuance. And the said Giles Brook saithe that he Hkewise hathe
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and occupiethe one
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other horse milne in the said towne as he vereUe
thinketh he lawfuHie maie. 15 Townsend
And the saide defts saie that the said Willm More hathe also Windmill,
wth" the said towne one horse milne of his own, and p'tendinge to Action against
have some assignement from the said Sir Richarde Molynex K*"* of
Burgesses
one of her Mt'^^ supposed saide winde milnes of Leverpool called
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Townesend Mylne, hathe p'cured the said Sir Richard to compleyne
(as theis defts thinke) in this honorable courte, seeking therby
colorably to suppresse and pull down all other horse milnes wth'' the
said town, but beinge (as theis defts thinke) bothe as lawful to be
kept uppon and maintained as the horse milne of the said W"" More
and also as necessary and p'fitable for the saide towne, hopinge
therby to drawe the p'fitt of the moulture of malte of the whole
towne of Leverpoole to his owne horse milne and to gett the whole
p'fitt therof unto his owne hand as theis defts thinke.
In respecte wherof the saide defts humbly besecheth this honorable
courte to have consideracon of the p'misses and to take suche
order both in regarde of the necessitie of the said towne and the
extremities the inhabitantes are some times dryven unto for want of
water milnes, as also for the better servinge of her Mt'^^ officers and
forces at their repaire thither, that the horse milnes nowe in the
ocupacon of these defts being verie necessarie and a gret ease to
the saide towne maie be kept upp and used and that the said defts
;
maie have the alowance of the use therof by thorder of this
honorable courte as before they have used. [Alternative pleas
follow.]
Without—
[they deny] that all inhabitants of Lyverpoole by all the
tyme wherof the memory of man is not to be contrary have used
and of right ought to grind all their corne and malte spent in their
sevrall houses in Lyverpoole at her Mt'^' milnes of Lyverpoole called
Easteham Milne and Townsend Milne to the knowledge of theis
defts : And without— theis defts or either of them doe not usuallie
grinde in their sevrall horse milnes any graine but onlie malt. And
without— that by reason of theis defts horse milnes her Mt'*^ said
twoe windemilnes in Leverpoole are so hindered as her Mt^ farmor
ys not able to paie the rent reserved to her Mat'^ for the same, but
theis defts saie that if the said defts maie be her Mf^^ farmors of the •
said Estham Mylne and Townsend Milne they will put in sufficiente
suerties to aunswere her Mt'^^ Rent for the same in the encrease and
for the necessitie and behoofe of the towne, and not onelie allow the
saide Mr. Crosse his Auncient Winde Milne but the said W More
his horse milne and two other horse milnes with'' the saide towne
and as manie more as this honorable Courte shall think requisit.
And without— [they deny] that theis defts or either of them have
erected or used any horse milne hand milne or querne with" her ,
Mat'^' Manner of West Derby in the said Bill of Complaint named
or ells as before ys declared. And without— regarding any other
matter or thinge in the said Bill, all such matters and thinges theis
defts and either of them will be redie to averr mainteine and