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SOME FEUDAL MILLS. 195
Manor of West Derby. Compotus of Henry Norris, bailiff there IV.
for Edward Crosse, deputy seneschal, 23-24 Henry VL
KING'S MILLS,
Receipts. 43s. 4d., farme of twenty acres of meadow, called LIVERPOOL.
Earl's Meadow i2d. for a certain ; way called Milne Gate juxta the 27. West
chapel of West Derby ; also 40s. for the farme of one windmill and
Derby Mill,
one horse-mill, as demised to Richard Penketh for a term of ten
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years which have expired in the year last past. 2-^2.1 H° VI
Repairs made according to custom. Perforating and grooving
one Paris millstone bought for the milL called the windmill of
this manor, in place of another much worn in the twenty-second
year of the present king [1443]; also bedding the said stone: in
all, 5s. Iron purchased for making the point of the iron fusil
[mill-pick] of the said mill, gd. 6co nails called board-nails, bought
by computation to fasten the woodwork of the said mill, at 4d.
per hundred, 2s. Also idleness of the said mill during the time
of this account while under repair in the middle of the season and
totally unable, to grind, according to the certificate of the seneschal
and others affixed to this account six ; weeks at the rental of 30s. per
annum 3s. 6d. [paid to the
miller]. Total for the windmill, iis. 3d.
A certain agreement for a lump sum made by computation with
a carpenter that he should restore and replace with oak timber
the arms of the wheel of the horse-mill appertaining to this manor,
which are broken, and also repair other defects in the woodwork
of the same, 4s. Fashioning one old millstone for the said mill,
grooving and .
it, as agreed, for the sum of 2s. Iron pur-
bedding
chased to make the point of the iron fusil of the said mill divers
times in the term of this compotus, i2d. One saw purchased to
recompense the said mill for another one broken, 4d. Total for the
horse-mill, 7s. 4d.*
After 1475 West Derby Mill was no longer conjoined
with Accers. In 1476 a writ of Edward III. for the
* Man' de Westderby. Compus Henrici Norreys p'pos ib'm p' Edw' Crosse
deput' sen 23-24 H. 6.
De xliij^ de fir. xx acr. iiij^^ p'ti voc Erlesmedowe. De xij*^ de quad'm via voc
milngate juxta Capellam de Derby. Et de xP de ferma unius molend' ventritica
et unius moli equini sic demiss' Rico Penketh ad t'mu decern annoz que p'terunt
in anno ultimo elapso.
Cust' repac'. In p'foratoe et verberatoe unius paris petrar molarium p' molio
vocat ventritico hujus man'ii loco alt"ius paris fere p'usitat
in anno xxij rege
nunc empt' una cum cubacoe eand'm petrar in grosso v^ Et in ferro empto
p' fabricacoe finis fusilli ferrei d'ci moli ix*^. Et in DC clavoz voc bordnaile
p' compute empt' p' opibz ligneis d'ci moli figend' C" ad Et in stacoe
iiij'*, ij*.
d'ci moli p' vj septima infra tempus compi dum erat in rep'ando nullo modo medio
tempe molentis p' certificacm sen" et alioz sup' hunc compm jux" ferme de xxx*
p' annu iij" vj*^. Moli ventr' xj' iij'^
Et in quad'm convencoe p' compute in grosso f 'ca cum uno carpentario ut ipse
cum m'emio quer' restauret et imponet brachia et alias pecias m'emii in rotam moli
equini hujus man'ii p'prius fere defract iiij'. Et in aptatoe unius vet'is petre
molaris p' eod'm molio cum verb'atoe & cubatoe ejusd'm p' convene' in grosso ij\
Et in ferro empto p' fabricatoe finis fusilli ferrei ejusd'm moli div's vicibz p' temp'
compi xVf. Et in una serura empta p' hostio d'ci moli loco alt'ius defracte iiij^.
Moli equini vij' iiij*^.