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SOME FEUDAL MILLS. 179
Remember the greatest improvement I can advise you. Put IV.
^[oo to his in your windmill that now William Gardiner hath. Two KING'S MILLS,
mills together would bring you ;£"2o in the LIVERPOOL,
;^ioo for the building
another mill. Cause another windmill to be erected, for you will 21 Townsend
need but one carrier and one horse to them both, and a miller and Windmill
a boy of a cheap wage about i6 years old. In doing so, and making Profits of
the water run the right way [so
as to shut down the Toxteth Park
Multure,
mills], you may easily make your two windmills worth ;£^8o per
annum or more. For my grandfather hath formerly set this mill
for ;^2 7 per annum : but now the carrying and the Park mills takes
off so much that, all charges borne and the mill kept in as good
repair as I gave it to them, I have now during the lease but ;£^io
.yearly and two bushels of wheat at Christmas for it. But if there
^ere two mills, considering the great store of tenants you have in
the town and that one carrier would serve them both, it truly is
not to be thought what advantage they would bring you, especially
•observing the rules to your customers which I have set down in
the directions
Castle Street.
wheat yearly.
for your
Old rent
horse-mill; therefore vide horse-mill
of this mill ;£"io and two measures
in
of
22. The whole of Moore's quaint reflections, all 22. Townsend
his sage advice for building permanently up a
valuable milling trade in the town, w^ere but wasted
Windmill.
Sale, 1724.
labour ; for his eldest son died before he was able
to utilise them, and a younger son, who succeeded,
failed in the heavy task. With the one exception,
provoked no doubt by the laxity and difficulty of the
times, they are creditable alike to his sagacity and his
sense of justice at a very critical period of soke
history. Now that this period has happily closed, if
we complacently look around us to-day and smile at
his solemn injunction — '' Remember there can never
be any more mills in Liverpool than are now in
being "— let us congratulate ourselves that, though
there are more mills, there is no more soke, no more
compulsory astriction of tenants, no more suppression
of free competition, and no more filching away of
the rights of owners of mills.
But the troubled race of Sir Edward Moore was
well-nigh run. In 1677 the corporation obtained from
Lord Molyneux a one-thousand-years' lease of the fee-