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SOME FEUDAL MILLS. 193
still remain on their ancient sites, unchang^ed from ^v.
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1 ^1 KING'S , MILLS,
ancient uses ; the others bemg the mother church at Liverpool.
Walton, and the chapel of St, Nicholas by the riverside. 26. Wavertree
Thus fortuitously does the vast city of modern times Mill
seem to preserve that association of ancient church
and mill which innumerable little Saxon hamlets of
Domesday maintained centuries before the earliest Text, n. loi.
days of Liverpool.
The abandoned mill stood for several years, more
or less a ruin, exposed to the ravages
of the weather
and the devastations of vagrants of the countryside ;
still, fragile structure as it seems, it weathered with
little additional damage a heavy gale in February
1895 that wrecked many an apparently stronger
edifice. Since 1896, when the accompanying view was
taken, and a plea entered for its preservation in The
King s Mills of Ancient Liverpool, the late Marquis
of Salisbury h^ippily caused the fabric to be repaired
and took ample measures to secure its safety for
many years to come. The interest investing the
relic is not that alone of the antiquary ; but of the
people at large, whose corn is soke free and whose
bread is abundant and —thanks cheap to those vast
changes in political economy and industrial progress
that have revolutionised the quondam state of affairs
typified by this obsolete mill.
27. We come now to the fifth of the mills which in 27. West
he held under the Crown— l^erby Mill,
1587 Molyneux pleaded
namely, West Derby windmill. Unlike Accers and
Wavertree, it was never included in the town lease,
but was held separately by Molyneux and others ;
though to all intents and purposes it was a Liverpool
mill, doing a great part of its trade with the town and
port. Like the others, it was an extremely ancient
establishment. It was included in the West Derby
possessions of Edmund Plantagenet in 1297—"two
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