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SOME FEUDAL MILLS. 181<br />

V T . .<br />

no fewer than twenty-seven windmills (besides one ^^<br />

.ii\ 1 11-1 KING'S MILLS<br />

watermill), then marked in the map <strong>of</strong> Liverpool, Liverpool.<br />

must have imparted to the aspect <strong>of</strong> the place from the 22. Townsend<br />

riverside much <strong>of</strong> the semblance <strong>of</strong> a Dutch Windmill.<br />

landscape.<br />

In 1724 Sir Cleave perforce gave up his im-<br />

Sale, 1724.<br />

possible task. Sir John Moore, the mortgagee,<br />

foreclosed ; and the whole <strong>of</strong> the Moore estates<br />

in Liverpool, Kirkdale, and Bootle, including the<br />

Moore Hall in Liverpool and Bank Hall in Kirkdale,<br />

Bank Hall, the Seat <strong>of</strong> the Moores.<br />

were sold. Sir Cleave left Lancashire for the South<br />

<strong>of</strong> England, and died in 1730; and though three<br />

succeeding<br />

baronets maintained the name <strong>of</strong> the<br />

family, none <strong>of</strong> them retrieved <strong>it</strong>s estates ; the her<strong>it</strong>age<br />

<strong>of</strong> the eventual heiress, the daughter <strong>of</strong> the last<br />

baronet, Sir William, being comparatively<br />

than mere charters, rolls, and deeds bespeaking<br />

l<strong>it</strong>tle more<br />

antiqu<strong>it</strong>y and former wealth— the now <strong>of</strong>t-quoted<br />

*' Moore Deeds." Yet w<strong>it</strong>hin half a century <strong>of</strong> the<br />

sale bv Sir Cleave "these lands, houses, and tene- Hist. Liverpool :<br />

. ,<br />

•<br />

1 r 11<br />

1 J u • • Enfield& Perry<br />

ments increased wonderfully in value, and bring in

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