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188 HISTORY OF CORN MILLING: vol. iv.
IV.
KING'S MILLS
LIVERPOOL.
25. Accers
Mill.
Liverpool
Port Mote,
ii. ii6.
26. Wavertree
Mill.
the latter was living at the death of his father in
1575; when, at the inquisition— *' We find William
More, as he the day of this enquiry is called William
More of The Accers near West Derbie, to be the
right heir of the late John More of the Bank Hall."
On the tithe map of the Croxteth estate in 1837
the mound upon which the mill stood is marked in
a field numbered 2195 and named *' Millfield." This
was on lands held by the yeoman family of the
Boltons, whose house, an interesting structure dating
from the early part of the fifteenth century, stood
hard by, and was only taken down as recently as
about six years ago.* Accers Mill was probably leased
by the Boltons from Molyneux till 1589 ; as in that
year the latter is found, on the one hand, leasing
Accers Mill to John Cole, and, on the other, leasing
Eastham Mill to John Bolton ; the Eastham lease
being held by the Bolton family
tenement at Accers was owned m 1837 by one John
till 1606. The Bolton
Tarbuck; and here was born very early in the century
Margaret Mason, a late aged resident in the neighbourhood,
who remembered as a girl the ruins of the mill
existing on the mound in "Millfield." In 1881 the
mound was levelled by the tenant of the farm, who discovered
among the debris broken millstones and timber.
26. The other of the rural mills in Crosse's lease of
1475, was that of Wavertree. Beyond
its constant
recurrence in the town leases till the sale of 1629 little
record seems to remain of it.f Clearly it was a profit-
*
Mr. R. D. Radcliffe, F.S.A., purchased the excellent oak timbering of
Bolton's tenement, and erected therefrom the handsome memorial Lych Gate
which now enriches Knotty Ash Church, Liverpool. A curious recessed oak
canopy, which extended across a dais at one end of the hall, Mr. Radcliffe also
purchased and presented to the Free Public Museum, Liverpool.
f Possibly some information might be gleaned from the early Court Rolls and
other records of the manor of West Derby preserved by the lord of that manor,
the Marquis of Salisbury, at Hatfield. The late Marquis recently kindly gave
permission for a search to be made, but unfortunately no opportunity for doing
so occurred.