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SOME FEUDAL MILLS. 171
KING S MILLS,
observations on the matter, and even make the case t^.Twir^i^'
. Mil*
agamst him as complete as possible, that it may Liverpool.
be fairly adjudged :— IsTTownsend
Mark well the covenant in your leases for grinding at your Tenants'
mills. Let your penalty be as high as you can agree with the
Leases
tenants. . . . Know every week what tenants you have that grind
away without lawful cause, and make them pay for it according to ^^"^^^' ^^- 20.
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the covenants in their leases. . . . Make your leases according to my
new lease in Moore Street. ... Be careful of the clause to grind
at your mills : it is a great thing to your estate, and mind your
tenants observe it well. This remember, that those who live upon
any part of my lands, ought and are bound by special covenant to
grind at some of my mills. . . . Observe well how you dispose of
your lands in the field, for there is scarce a man in Liverpool that
is not Mr. Crosse's tenant [and bound to grind at his Middle Mill]
but upon consideration of leasing to them but two lands would be
bound to grind at your mill, by which means you might make your
horse-mill of great value. Vide the rule for the horse-mill in every
lease you make; for those which have no houses under you but
will under
only lands in the field, and live in other men's houses,
pretence of that not grind at your mill. So that you must advise
with counsel for a particular clause or proviso in your leases to bind
or force such to grind with you ; or else, as I find by experience,
they will find some way to avoid you and not grind with you.
These, then, were the instructions Moore thought
it necessary to give his son for ensuring custom to
the mill. The clause in the lease v^as not only legal,
but was in ordinary operation throughout the kingdom
; the " penalty " for absence from the mill being
the equivalent of the usual fine and confiscation for Text, III. 236,
. 2^0.
such default or the ; ordinary payment by the tenant for
exemption. Many such leases made by others than
Moore are to be found. In 1676, at about the time
the Rental was written, for example, William, Earl of
Derby, leasing land at Wavertree to one Robert Carter,
stipulated that the latter '' shall always bring all the
corn and grain which by him or his assigns and every
of them shall be spent yearly in or upon the premises,
to be ground upon or at the said earl's mill or mills
within the manor of Wavertree and not elsewhere
without reasonable cause" ;
while ''if the said R. Carter