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178 HISTORY OF CORN MILLING: vol. iv.
IV. in former days had driven Eastham Mill. It still
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KING'S MILLS, ,
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LIVERPOOL, drove a very small watermill that stood haii a mile
20. Townsend
Encroachments,
1667.
farther up than Eastham, (Norris' Mill, beside the
Windmill. Gallows Windmill) ; but it practically had become
useless as a mill-stream till Lord Molyneux, owner
of Moss Lake Fields, by it diverting in another
direction, contrived to make it drive two new water-
Rental, 69.
21. Townsend
Windmill.
Profits of
Multure.
Rental, 68.
mills in Toxteth Park. Moore, complaining
of the
political disadvantages that had prevented him protesting
against this, urged that the stream should be
turned back again from Toxteth Park, and so cause
the closing of the mills there :—
Remember one other thing of great concernment. Within the
memory of man the Lord Mullinex hath erected two watermills in
Toxteth Park [outside the boundaries of Liverpool]. . . . Whereupon
considering it was just at the king's restoration, and that all
these red-letter men were so high, and the chancellor of the Duchy
was near akin to him [Molyneux], and likewise the lord treasurer of
England was his brother-in-law [&c.] ; all which considered made
me sit down with this great wrong. If the water be taken off the
Moss Lake it will be better for your windmill [Townsend] by ;£"io
per annum, for that it will make the Park Mills want water, their
greatest supply being from that lake.
21. Of Townsend, the core of the entire milling
estate—" the windmill you hold in fee-farme of the
king "— he enjoined :—
The Windmill. This you hold in fee-farme of the king at the rent
of 30s. a year, which, considering that your ancestors built it, and
are forced to keep a carrier, the which is a man and a horse charges
more than ordinary ; which together with the daily repairs and
casualties is as much near as the mill is worth or more, had you
not so many tenants of your own which are great bread bakers and
are bound to grind with you at some of your mills.
There must Remember there can never any more mills be erected
be no mills within the manor of Liverpool but what are now in being;
but this in for this reason, yours is the king's mill, and you pay him a
Liverpool,
great rent and are at the charges of at least jQi2 per
annum upon the maintenance of a man and a horse for carrying,
and at least ;^5 per annum for repairs, and ;£^ per annum board
wages for a miller: which in all [with 30s. rent] amounts to £2^] los.
per annum that must go in ready money out of purse yearly :
besides, if a casualty by a stress of wind come—which often falls
out— the mill may be damnified 10, 20, 30, 40 or more of pounds.