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SOME FEUDAL MILLS. 175
(the regicide colonel of 1649), who had been mayor }'^in
1633, proved the last of the long series; neither Liverpool.'
Sir Edward himself, nor his son— for whose sake he is. Townsend
ventured upon crafty counsel that has imperilled his Windmill,
own —nor reputation yet any other descendant of his
T^^^'^ts
ever did become mayor.
19. The horse-mill of the Moores had long been 19- Townsend
a cherished possession of the family. Originally ^^"~
established by John del More before 1361 to take mill,
the place of one of the two watermills, it was situated,
1361-1667.
not near the site of the latter, but near Moore Hall,
at the north end of the town, on the sand-lands, or
''white acres," ^ by the shore; of which the Moore
family owned a considerable tract. A deed of 1361,
that mentions *' a certain road in le quitakrastrete Moore Deeds,
which leads to the mill," identifies its site. White- ^^4-
acres Street became known as Milne Street (now
Old Hall Street), and is mentioned in various early
deeds.t The horse-mill was used for grinding malt
for the Moore tenants, and in this guise of a private
mill John del More seems to have purchased it from
the Duke; as after 1361 it never appears to occur as
a possession of the duchy, and is always found to
be worked by the Mores. Early in the reign of
Henry VHL, William More, finding this malt mill
too far from the centre of the town, seems to have
established another on his central land in Fenwick
* N.D. (^. 1257). Le Witacris. Ibid., 270 (9).
1308. Le q'takirfeld in territorio de Lethirpol. Ibid., 119.
1 33 1. Le Quitaccris. Ibid , 89.
t 1374. Le Milne Street in Lyverpull. Ibid., 233.
15 15. Indenture between David Gryffyth, maire, with his choburges, the Ibid., 341.
comynaltie and William More that the latter shall grant a certain right of way for
the burgesses, which way lies straight up
the Milne Strete and so north into the
fields : in exchange for Mill Hill lane, leading out of Milne Strete ; which More
shall have.
1535. A certain way called le Milnestrete, with the lands of the said Ibid., 354.
William More on both sides.
1539- Whiteacrestrete or Mylstrete. Ibid., 356.
1588. More strete a/tas teithbarne streete [disproving the modern Ibid., 400.
assertion that Whiteacres Street was Tithebarn Street].