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172 HISTORY OF CORN MILLING: vol. iv.
KiNG's^MiLLS ^^ ^^^ assigns, occupiers of the premises or any part
LIVERPOOL.' thereof, shall fail or refuse to bring all the corn and
18. Townsend grain, which by them shall be spent in or upon the
Windmill, said premises, to be ground upon or at the said earl's
Tenants'
Leases.
mill or mills," then the lease shall be void. And,
a century after Moore's time, the Hon. C. L. Mor-
daunt, of Halsall, in the same county, in leasing several
closes of land in Down Holland to William Balshaw,
of Alcar, stipulated, as usual, that Balshaw and his heirs
"shall grind or cause to be ground all his and .their
corn and grain that shall be yearly used and spent on
the said premises for his and their own family's use ;
and all other the oaten groats and meal that shall be
yearly grown upon the said premises, and be by him
or them ground into flower or meal, shall be ground at
the mill or mills of the said Charles Lewis Mordaunt,
his heirs and assigns, in Halsall, and not elsewhere ;
and in default or neglect of every such grinding as
aforesaid shall and will forfeit and pay unto the said
C. L. Mordaunt, his heirs and assigns, the sum of Five
Shillings of lawful money, to be levied by distress and
sale as for rent for arrear, without suit at law ; if wind
and water serve." But to revert to Moore ; when
his son, Sir Cleave, succeeded to the Liverpool
estate, his leases were modelled on the same plan ;
and with the framing of them was closely associated
one of the foremost conveyancing lawyers of his age,
. Isaac Green, of Liverpool (whose daughter inherited
a large fortune in local landed estate and mills, which
eventually passed in marriage to the Marquis of
Salisbury). In 1698 Sir Cleave, in conjunction with
his relative Sir John Moore, of London, mortgagee,
granted a lease on land in the new-made Cable Street
to Robert Bibby, with the usual stipulation :—
The said R. Bibby, for himself, his executors, administrators, and
assigns, doth covenant that he, his executors, administrators, and