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186 HISTORY OF CORN MILLING: VOL. IV.
IV. Customary Repairs : Carriage of one oak from West Derby Wood
-'^^^^I^^^^^S' to the windmill called Accursmylne, two leagues, 8d. ; purchase,
for the same, of a square [iron socket for insertion of the four arms]
25. Accers
Mill.
Close Rolls,
23-24 Hy. VI.
and fittings for a shaft at the said mill, upon which to place the lattice-
work for the sails, 3s. 46. ; wages of one man half a day, repairing
with pales and posts certain breakages in the fencing, is. id.
Receipts : 24s. for the farme of the windmill called Acoursmylne,
as demised to William Mercere by Sir Richard Molyneux, seneschal
there ; to be held by the said William from the Feast of St. Michael^
in the eighteenth year of the present king, for the term of nine years
then ensuing ; this year completing the sixth. The said William to
sustain and repair the said mill in all things during the aforesaid
term at his own proper costs and charges ; [the lord] to find him
structural timbers, but not the cutting or carriage of the same, and
millstones, with their carriage, to the said mill. The said William
has had in the first year of the said term payment of 20s. for repair
of the said mill, undertaken outside the agreement for the said
term, and excluded from this account on the testimony of the said
Richard Molyneux upon the account; the previous term of John
Wright, former farmer of the said mill, not being then formally
completed by him, nor his sureties, Henry Wilkinson and others,
brought forward. And the said William is to deliver up the said
mill in sufficient repair at the end of the said term.*
After 1475, when the lease of the mill was added to
that of Liverpool, the rent was fixed, as it remained,
at 20s. In 1546, when Sir William Molyneux and his
son Richard obtained the lease of the town, they also
obtained possession of the rural mills ; and in 1557 the
compotus of Sir Richard Molyneux, then bailiff of
West Derby, thus accounts for the rent of Accers :—
Sheriff's Receipts : 20s. for the farm of the windmill called Acresmill, as
Accounts, demised by indenture under the seal of the Duchy of Lancaster,
4-5 P. & M.
given November 25, in the thirty-seventh year of King Henry VIII.,
*
In carr. unius quercus de bosco ib'm usq' molin ventriticum voc Accursmylne
p' ij leucas viij*^ : et in empcoe ejusdem ead'm causa squarr' apt' p' uno shafte
inde habend ad id'm molin in qua pecten vela : imponuntur iij' et in
iiij** stipendu
unius hoes p' dies di cum palis post et railez rep'antis certas rupturas palicii xiij*^,
De xxiiij' de ferma moli ventritici voc Acoursmylne sic dimis' Willmo Mercere
p' Ric'm Molyneux milite sen' ib'm. Habend Willmo a festo Sci Michis anno xviij
regis nunc usq' ad finem tmu ix annoz extunc p'x sequenciu et plenarie complend'
hoc anno vj*". Et id'm Willm's sustent' et rep'abit d'cm molin in om'ibz durante
t'mino p'dicto sumpt' suis p'prius et expn : quod [d/ajt/;] ei invenit grossum meremiu.
absq' p'stracoe et cariagio, et molares cum cariagio eoz'dm usq' d'cm molin. Et
p'dcus Willm's h'abit in primo anno t'mi p'dci de xx' p' rep'acoe d'ci moli exceptis
p'exceptis durante t'mio p'dco excludendo p' testioii p'dci Rici Molyneux sup'
comp'm non obstante t'mio loh'is Wright nup' firmar' d'ci moli nondum complet eo
qd id'm loh'es non p'fecerit suam p'positu Henricus Wilkynson et alioz. Et id'm
Willm's dimittet d'cm molin sufficient rep'atum in fine t'mi sui p'dci.