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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. Portrait of the late Richard Bennett Dee bridge and mills, Chester ... Plan of Dublin showing Castle mills Potsdam Palace mill A relic of Shrewsbury Abbey mills Mill and ruin of monastery, Shrewsbury The mill-race. Abbey Foregate, Shrewsbury Dee mills and causeway, Chester Extract from Chester Pentice Transcript re Inquisition Dee mills, from a sketch in Harleian MSS. Causeway crossing the Dee Tomb of the Gamulls ... Dee Bridge mills in the seventeenth century . Townsend, last of the king's mills of Liverpool Map showing " The Old Field," Liverpool Everton beacon ... Plan : Eastham mill-pool and Townsend mill. Plan : Eastham mill-pool, 1807 Site of medieval Eastham, Liverpool Bank Hall, the seat of the Moores Wavertree mill, Liverpool Wavertree mill in ruin, 1896 Map: Liverpool mills, 1768 720 Frontispiece . Title-Page Page 4 6 28 52 53 54 72 85 96 106 121 124 129 131 135 135 137 181 189 192 199
SOME FEUDAL MILLS, CHAPTER I. THE CASTLE MILIvS, DUBUN. *" 1. The early Plantasfenet mills beside i- Dublin . ^1 , 1. 1 . THE . CASTLE Castle were not extensive, but some little interesting mills, history centres round them. The following episodes L_ appear to be all of importance that may be gathered 1- Site, &c., from the available records. In connection with the '^"^ somewhat earlier documents relative to the king's Text, III. 4. mills of Ardee, they illustrate the varied circumstances attendant upon the mills in that period. founding and working of king's The Castle Mills comprised but an ordinary manorial establishment, worked in accord- ance with civil law ; not garrison mills maintained under military rule. The sovereign acted purely as manorial lord in the management of the place ; and Henry III., in compounding for damages alleged by certain monks against him as founder of Castle Mills, evinced a respect for civil law and custom which feudal manorial mill-owners, generally, only too often failed to emulate. When Dublin Castle was founded by John in 1204, the milling of that locality was conducted by the monks of St. Mary's Abbey. This abbey, which is invariably termed St. Mary's **juxta Dublin," stood VOL. IV. A
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SOME FEUDAL MILLS,<br />
CHAPTER I.<br />
THE CASTLE MILIvS, DUBUN.<br />
*"<br />
1. The early Plantasfenet mills beside i-<br />
Dublin<br />
. ^1 , 1. 1 . THE . CASTLE<br />
Castle were not extensive, but some l<strong>it</strong>tle<br />
interesting mills,<br />
history centres round them. The following episodes L_<br />
appear to be all <strong>of</strong> importance that may be gathered 1- S<strong>it</strong>e, &c.,<br />
from the available records. In connection w<strong>it</strong>h the<br />
'^"^<br />
somewhat earlier documents relative to the king's Text, III. 4.<br />
mills <strong>of</strong> Ardee, they illustrate the varied circumstances<br />
attendant upon the<br />
mills in that period.<br />
founding and working <strong>of</strong> king's<br />
The Castle Mills comprised but<br />
an ordinary manorial establishment, worked in accord-<br />
ance w<strong>it</strong>h civil law ; not garrison mills maintained<br />
under mil<strong>it</strong>ary rule. The sovereign acted purely as<br />
manorial lord in the management <strong>of</strong> the place ; and<br />
Henry III., in compounding for damages alleged by<br />
certain monks against him as founder <strong>of</strong> Castle Mills,<br />
evinced a respect for civil law and custom which<br />
feudal manorial mill-owners, generally, only too <strong>of</strong>ten<br />
failed to emulate.<br />
When Dublin Castle was founded by John in<br />
1204, the <strong>milling</strong> <strong>of</strong> that local<strong>it</strong>y was conducted by<br />
the monks <strong>of</strong> St. Mary's Abbey. This abbey, which<br />
is invariably termed St. Mary's **juxta Dublin," stood<br />
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