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SOME FEUDAL MILLS. 185
^14 6s. 8d. Ackers never worked the mills ; but after ,^'^-
leasing 'the town and town mills to the corporation, Liverpool.'
let Accers and Wavertree for all his term at 46s. 8d. ; 24. Rural
of which 40s. was payable to himself, and 6s. 8d. to the Mills.
royal bailiff of West Derby. The rental of the town,
as sold by Charles L in 1629, was £14. 6s. 8d.; and
therefore the sale did not include these two mills,
which were reserved and sold separately.
25. Though not added to the town leases till 1475 25. Accers
Accers Mill is mentioned as early as 1342. In that ^^^^•
year, at an inquisition respecting the forest of West
Derby, the verderers reported that two oaks had been
cut down in the park of Croxteth for the repair of the
Mill del Accers, " but for the most part they were old
and dry " ; also that one sapling oak had been cut
down in the outer wood to make a mill-shaft for
Accers ; while in the time of William of Penrith,
seneschal of the forest, three oaks had been cut down
for the repair of Accers Mill.* Unfortunately the
identity of the mill in this connection has been obscured
by the trivial clerical error of the transcriber, Okill, Okill MSS.,
misreading its designation as " Atters," owing to
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the
well-known similarity of the letters c and t in ancient
manuscript ; Baines and other local writers subse- Hist. Liverpool,
quently adopting the inaccuracy.
At this early period of its history Accers Mill
was leased with the neighbouring rural mill of West
Derby. In 1349 the bailiff of that manor responds
for two windmills, and the same appear there again in
1430; while in 1446 the compotus of Henry Norris,
royal steward for West Derby Manor, definitely
includes receipt of rental and payment of expenses
at Accers :—
i 5 » 5 •
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Quod duo querc prostrat' fuerant in parco de Croxstath hoc anno p' repara- Inq. Forest,
done, molend del Accres sed erant p' majore p'te sicce & vet'es. Et quod unu 16-17 Edw, IIL 8.
sapplynge querc prostrat fuit hoc anno in forinseco bosco quedam milnshaft faciend'
apud le Accersmilne, et tres querc' p' reparacoe molend' del Accers.