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SOME FEUDAL MILLS. 203
Gallows Mills. , KING'S MILLS,
Three mills bearing this designation stood in London Road,
near the east corner of Stafford Street. 28. Appendix :
Reference has already been made to the first, built in 17 15, and Their
the execution of the Jacobites there in 17 16. At this date the Immediate
ancient Moss Lake stream was still running beside this mill on its way Successors,
to Downe Street; and Norris' watermill (of 1587) was still driven by -p^j^j. j.
it. The original Gallows Mill and its site were purchased by the p. i-,^,
corporation for public improvements in 1788, at a cost of ^700
(Joseph Gerard being the miller at the time), and was advertised for
sale by auction the : year following "The materials of the Gallows
Mill on the Prescot Road: to be taken down and removed at the
expense of the purchaser," the selUng price being ^71. Beside it,
at the corner of Stafford Street, stood a tavern, which remained
an object of some curiosity on the coach road till as late as
about 1865.
The second of the three was built in 17 19 by Alderman Thomas
Tyrer, who had already petitioned the
build a mill in Tithebarne Street, The
corporation for leave to
London Road lease was
granted for the erection of the mill by Tyrer for three lives and
twenty-one years at 2s. 6d. per annum. By 1757 it had passed to
Samuel Jones, and 1774 to William Farrington.
The third, though also built by Tyrer (in 1749), became known
as Dobson's Mill, having been purchased (in 1755) by John Dobson,
a miller and merchant, of whose bankruptcy and subsequent proceedings,
extending over many years, an interesting account might
be written.* In 1800 a petition of William Rowe to alter the lives
in the lease " cannot be granted until the mill be taken down in
order to widen the road " ; but in 1812 Edward Blackstock, gentleman
(half on his own behalf and half as executor for Edward Newsham),
is granted a similar request " subject to taking down in a limited time
the said mill, as well as the pubhc-house called ' The Barleymow,'
for the widening of the said road." This inn, in an advertisement for
its sale in May, i8oo, is stated to have frontages on Prescot Road,
Pembroke Place, and towards Shaw's Brow ; and stood therefore
along the angle of the roads in Monument Place. About 1780 this
lonely spot on the high road was infested by footpads and highwaymen,
the capture of three of them by " "
the patrol being
triumphantly recorded in 1783.
* "
1778. May 8. To be sold by auction by order of the assignees of Mr.
John Dobson, at the Golden Lyon, Dale Street, all that parcel of ground and the
windmill, two houses, and other buildings thereon erecteJ, and the small garden
situate on the north side of the highway or road leading from Liverpool to Low
Hill : bounded on the south side by a stone delph and the said highway, road, or
lane: containing by estimation 2 roods 12 perches.
All the above premises
are held by lease under the Corporation of Liverpool for three lives and twenty-one
years, under a yearly ground rent of los., and were lately let to Mr. Isaac Smith
at the yearly rent of ;^8o. They are now in good repair, and very well adapted
for a miller on account of their contiguity to the turnpike road."
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