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184 HISTORY OF CORN MILLING: vol. iv.
KiNG's^iLLS
^^* ^^ ^^^ action at law, 1587, Sir R. Molyneux
five windmills within
LIVERPOOL, pleaded that he was lessee of ''
^^^
247~Rural Majesty s Manor of West Derby, commonly East-
Mills, ham Milne, Townsend Milne, Ackers Milne, Wartre
Text, ante, Milne, and Derby Milne." The first two were liter-
ally Liverpool mills ; the other three were situated
four or five miles from the town ; but the whole
five belonged to one common owner —the king, Duke
of Lancaster. Two of these three rural mills, those of
Accers and Wavertree, were annexed to the town in
1475. In that year the king granted to Henry Crosse,
Close Rolls, gentleman, "the town and lordship of Lytherpole with
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the appurtenances (which included Eastham and
Townsend mills)
at the old rent of ^14 per annum;
''and also one windmill called Akersmyle and another
windmill called Wartre Mylne,"* at a further rental of
20s. each. At the close of that year the king's receiver
included in his receipts :—
The town and lordship of Lytherpole with appurtenances : also
one windmill called Ackersmyle and another windmill called Wartre
Mylne in the county aforesaid, parcel of the : duchy For the town
and lordship ;^i4, and for the mill called Akersmyle 20s., and for
the mill called Wartre Myle 20s.
In this form the two continued to be interpolated in
the leases of Liverpool till the sale by Charles I. The
amount of their rentals in 1475, as compared with those
of Eastham, 28s. 6d., and Townsend, 13s. 4d., in 1450,
proves that they were fair-sized structures, doing a
and their
good trade in a rich wheat-growing district ;
addition to the fee-farme of Liverpool must have been
considered a considerable auofmentation of the milliner
resources of the growing town. Their rentals of 20s.
each remained the same in all the leases ; though in 1528,
when Henry Ackers and Alice Griffiths secured the
Duchy Grants lease, the rent of the town and appurtenances (including
Eastham and Townsend) was raised from ^14 to
in Fee.
* *' Wartre" is still the popular local colloquialism for "Wavertree."