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SOME FEUDAL MILLS. 181<br />
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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