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182 HISTORY OF CORN MILLING: vol. iv.
,rTXT^,i\vTT T o niore per
KING'SMILLS,
LIVERPOOL, they cost
annum at the present time f 177^1 than
r • •
i i in j 11 i
[at the last
salej ; 22. Townsend
and it is well knowrt
^^^^ sales have been made of parts of them at sums
Windmill,
equal to five times over the first fee-simple." Bank
ae, 1724.
]-i^\\^ ^[^\y j|-s nioat and towered gateway; its opentimbered
roofed hall bedecked with busts and shields ;.
its courtyard wall, ** whereon was a grand arrangement
of all the armorial acquisitions of the family on shields
elevated like a battlement, and the date 1282"; as
well as most of the Kirkdale and Bootle estates in
its neighbourhood, were purchased by the Earl of
Derby.*
Lord Derby in 1724 further purchased '' All that
messuage and tenement in Oldhall Street in Liverpool
commonly called the Old Hall, also that Windmill
situated and being at the lower end of Dale Street in
"
Liverpool commonly called Townsend Mill ; f which
latter, with a score free-trade mills around it, no longer
retained any pretence to its ancient exclusive rights,
and humbly ground on lease for hire. Its aspect in
Frontispiece to 1 772 is taken from an engraving in Enfield and
ap er.
p^j-j-y's Liverpool ; the site being on the west side of
the Wellington Column at the top of the brow, near
the Art Gallery.
23. Townsend 23. In 1 777 the corporation purchased from Lord
Windmill.
Molyneux the reversion of their thousand years' lease
Destruction, •
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i-
01 the town and ; subsequently one or their earliest
1780.
Port Mote, xii. acts was to instruct the town clerk ''to write to
49, 137, 185- the stewards at Knowsley about the purchase of
Lord Derby's interest in the Townsend Mill; and also
Mr. Rigby, the present lessee, concerning his interest
* In 1773 "this venerable dwelling-house hath lately been demoHshed, and
will probably be soon forgotten." Its site is covered by Bank Hall railway
station and sidings, in the street of the same name.
t Conveyance consulted by consent of the Earl of Derby at Knowsley. Here
is also preserved a large oil painting of the time of Sir Cleave Moore, showing,
an extensive panorama of the Moore estates, from the timber post-mill of Spellow
to the mills of Bootle Marsh on the Shore.