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SOME FEUDAL MILLS. 169
burgesses and the corporation as the holder of iv.
^ J ivT-n u J t_- 1 / KING'S MILLS,
lownsend Mill, he passed an embittered, soured, Liverpool.
and comparatively short life ; during which hard cir- 17. Townsend
cumstances pressed upon him severely and (as he Windmill,
says on one. occasion in connection with his mills) i6ro-i678^'
'' made me sit down with this great wrong."
In the hope that his son (fated, however, to die
before him) might, on inheriting the estate, gain
better results from it than he had done, Moore
minutely and laboriously compiled a Rental or Survey,
Moore Rental:
in which, among many other matters, he referred ^i^'^^^;^^!^-'
largely to the administration of the mills upon which
he set so great store. It commences with a prayer
written in 1667; the year when, in the midst of his
trouble, the corporation made a distraint at Townsend
Mill. On this unhappy occasion '*
John Hoole, Port Mote,
milner, did upon the i6th day of October imprison "^* ^54both
the late bailiffs in Mr. Moore's milne when they
were making a distress there " ;
and Moore had to pay
a fine of forty shillings in which his faithful wag of a
servant was promptly mulcted by Port Mote. In 1668
the rent of Townsend Mill and the horse-mill being
debited by the corporation to John Moore, Esq., shows Ibid., ili. 871.
us that they were now mortgaged ; the mortgagee
being a London relative of the family.
18. Under circumstances of so untoward a char- 18. Townsend
Windmill,
acter Moore hopelessly abandoned the task of attempt-
ing to enforce the soke of Townsend in the usual Leases.
way by actions at law ; and, in truth, with his
disastrous experience, well might he — pray -as in one
of his letters to ''my onely deare," his wife, June
1670—"God blease alle men from suites." Instead,
then, of
resorting to suits, he adopted the expedient
of
securing the custom of at least the tenants on his
own private estate ; inserting in leases of lands and
tenements a clause that the holder should grind at