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196 HISTORY OF CORN MILLING VOL. IV.
IV.
KING'S repair
MILLS,
LIVERPOOL.
of Liverpool Castle also directs certain repairs
at West Derby Mill :—
27. West
Derby Mill.
Duchy Orders,
Edw. IV. loo.
Duchy Leases,
II. XXX. 177.
Item : Y^ wyndmyll at Derby next to ye horsmyll is well repaired
in all things except bordynge and shyngling, which is ordeyned to
bee doon. The Hows of the said horsmyll is soe feble y* it can not
stande, wherefore it is orddeyned to bee taken down and a new Hows
to bee made, whereunto is assigned the Tymbre of ye old stable
at Lyvpole without ye castell, and such other old Tymbre w^in the
castell as may bee spared, and the residue to be had at Symondeswode,
and carried.
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In 1546, when Sir William Molyneux obtained
leases of Accers and Wavertree Mills, he obtained
also the lease of the windmill and horse-mill at
West Derby, together with twenty acres of field in
the Erlesmedowe, and pasture of the herbage of the
castle fosse, for twenty-one years, paying therefor 79s.
sterling : viz. for the mills, 26s. 8d. ; for the twenty
acres, 43s. 4d. ; and the fosse, 9s. ; he to keep the
mills in repair, and to have permission to move the
said horse-mill to any other desired site in the manor.
The rent of the two mills, which in 1444 had been
40s., will be noted to have decreased to 26s. 8d. The
Earl's Meadow was the twenty-acre meadow of
Edmund Plantagenet, Earl of Lancaster, in 1297.
It stretched down the slope from the windmill towards
the village; and through the middle of it ran "the
certain road called Milne Gate" (because it led to the
mill gate), for using which, in 1297 and again in 1444,
the tenants are seen paying twelvepence per annum.
This road is still called Mill Lane. In 1557 Sir
Richard Molyneux, as royal bailiff, accounts for the
rental of the windmill and horse-mill. In 1568
William the Miller paid Molyneux ^4 for the year's
rent of the mill ; but later it and the Earl's Meadow
were let together at ^10 per annum. Queen
Elizabeth renewed the lease in 1586, and the mills
were held by the Molyneux family till, in 1609, they