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190 HISTORY OF CORN MILLING: vol. iv.
T^TXT^t\%TTTo ctblc coiicern. Sir William Molyneux leased it in i
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LIVERPOOL, and it was held by Sir Richard in 1557, and in 1587 it
26. Wavertree was one of the five entered in the pleadings. Though
Mill. its Crown rental was but 20s. per annum, Molyneux's
tenant in 1598, James Forster, paid him 46s. 8d., the
Text, ante,
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highest rental of any of the rural mills ; while in 1648
Earl Derby's tenant, William Keikwith, paid the still
higher rent of ^5 per annum. It had passed into the
in 1676,
possession of the Earl of Derby in 1629 ; and
as already related, he bound his Wavertree tenants by
the terms of their leases to grind there. Later the
estates and mill were acquired by Isaac Green, of
Liverpool, solicitor, (the legal adviser of Sir Cleave
Moore, of Townsend,)by whose daughter they passed
in marriage to Bamber Gascoyne, M.P. for Liverpool.
In his time was passed the Act of 1768 for dividing
the
and enclosing the common lands of Wavertree ;
portion allotted to him including that upon which the
If any person,
^^^ shall erect or build any house or building or shall
plant any tree or trees within the distance of two
8 Geo. III., mill stood. By clause 23 of this Act, ''
sec. 23.
hundred yards from a certain windmill situate on the
common hereby intended to be enclosed ; or shall
suffer any tree or trees, planted without the distance
aforesaid, to grow to such a height as to prevent the
going of the said windmill, the same shall be and is
hereby declared a nuisance, and shall and may be
removed or prevented by the same Bamber Gascoyne
or the owner or occupier of the said windmill."
Various general Acts of this period referring to wind-
mills will be found to contain similar provisions for the
preservation
of this then valuable form of mill.
Legislation such as this in former days would
have relieved many a windmill owner from the
Text, 1 1. 272,321. necessity of moving his mill from one site to another ;
and in the present case the Act may perhaps be