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166 HISTORY OF CORN MILLING: VOL. IV,
IV. prove as this honorable courte shall awarde. And praieth to be
KINGS MILLS, dismissed out of the same with their costes and chardges in this
LIVERPOOL,
^gj^^j^ wrongfullie sustained.
15. Townsend
Windmill. The defence set up will be noted to be of the
Action against ^g^^l l^jj^^^ ^he rights of her Majesty's ''sup-
13ur2fesses
1587-
Moore Rental :
'
ments
posed " mills are denied :
j j i.
as they are windmills only,
burgesses in times of calm have ground elsewhere
at watermills, and ordinarily have ground at horse-
mills ; the growing necessities of the town and port
have exceeded the capabilities of the queen's mills,
and it is impolitic to attempt to confine the citizens
to them ; William More **
pretending to have some
assignment from Sir Richard Molyneux of her
Majesty's supposed windmill of Townsend," besides
owning a horse-mill, is endeavouring to put down
all other mills for his own profit. The leaders in
the revolt do not, on their own showing, appear
as purely disinterested parties : John Bird admits
being tenant of a horse-mill belonging to Edward
Norres ;
he verily
while Giles Brooke has a
"
thinketh he : lawfully may
horse-mill, "as
and both being
indeed ready to cater for the whole grinding of the
town '' if they may be farmers of the Queen's
mills "
; for which (since Sir R. Molyneux states these
scarce now yield their own rents) they are willing
to put in sureties for payment of the queen's rent,
and allow as many horse-mills to exist in the town
*' as this honorable court shall think requisite."
However, their elaborate defence formed no reply
to the charge of evading the legal soke of the
queen's mills : the usual order affirming
the astric-
tion to the latter was made, and the illicit establishsuppressed.
About a century later Sir Edward
1847, vol. xii. Moore, in the Rental compiled for his son, refers to
this action, though he states it was taken by Edward,,
not William More (probably Edward having had