History of corn milling .. - Centrostudirpinia.it

SOME FEUDAL MILLS. 167
the actual working of the milling estate during the ^,^,^,JX- ^^ ^ ^
^ , ,?T.ii. \ KINGS MILLS,
life of his father, William) :— Liverpool.
In my grandfather Edward Moore's time there was two or three 15. Townsend
proud fellows set up mills, but he preferred a bill in the Duchy Windmill,
showing how our windmill [Townsend] is the King's mill, and the Action against
the tenants within Liverpool ought to grind there, because he paid Burgesses,
a great rent. And after two hearings it was decreed that those new 1587.
erected mills should be pulled down and fined besides ; which was Rental, 51, 68.
accordingly put in execution, and the mills were pulled down.
My grandfather, as he was tenant of your King's mill [Townsend],
preferred his bill in the Duchy against both of whom erected
horse mills in the town : after a great suit there was a decree made
that as he was the King's farmer within the King's manor there
ought to be no private mills, and those who erected them were fined
and both the mills pulled down.*
16. William More died in 1602, leaving
his mill- 16. Townsend
ing and other estates to his son Edward (sheriff of^^^j^^^"^|||-j.Q_
Lancashire in 1620 and mayor of Liverpool in i626).t duced, 1635.
The lease of Townsend had then eleven and a half Moore Deeds,
years to run, at the end of which time it seems to "^" ^ ^'
have been renewed by Molyneux for another term.
This Edward Moore, within a few years, was suc-
ceeded by his son John (Mayor of Liverpool, 1633),
who developed into the Parliamentarian Colonel
Moore, Governor of Liverpool during the siege, 1644 ;
when Eastham Mill was destroyed and Townsend Mill,
in which the Moores were so closely interested, was
preserved. It was during his holding that, in 1636, Port Mote,
one of the burgesses was presented at Port Mote for"'' ^^^'
*
In 1590 John Byrde was mayor, and in March 1591 presided over an
Assembly which fined Giles Brooke for purchasing a cargo of grain intended to
be purchased by the mayor on behalf of the town as a "town's bargain." The
next year Giles Brooke himself was mayor. In 161 1, while an alderman, he
was presented as finable at the Assembly " for suffering a millstone to he so long
at his door in High Street to the annoyance of his neighbours."
t 1616. Whereas upon complaint made by Edward Moore, esq., that one Ibid., ii. 808.
John Williamson, miller to the said Mr. Moore, had stolen a certain quantity of
malt from his master ; Upon the reading and perusing of the examinations taken
liefore the mayor and before the said Mr. Edward Moore, it appears that Lucy
the wife of Henry Parcoline, Margaret the wife of Robert Whiteside, and Dorothy
the wife of John Deane, have received and receipted malt which was stolen by the
said miller ; It is agreed upon by the said mayor and Assembly here that the said
three women shall sit in the stocks at the High Cross upon a market day by
Mr. Mayor's appointment, and that they shall put in sureties for their good
and Whiteside and
behaviour, and not be permitted to brew or sell ale hereafter ;
his wife shall avoid the town between this and the Annunciation next.