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SOME FEUDAL MILLS. 3
Hec est convencio facta inter abbatem et conventum Sancte T.
Marie juxta Dublin ex una parte et Germanum filium THE CASTLE
Randulphi
Dubylday videlicet quod abbas et conventus habebunt medietatem
rvuBLIN
ipsius molendini et omnium ovencionum inde : proveniencium et
dictus Germanus Dubylday et heredes ejus aliam medietatem et 1. Site &c.
omnes ovenciones inde provenientes habebunt.
1248.
Carta vero regis quam Willielmus habuit de eodem molendino
q^j.^ Doj^^s
tradita est in custodia prefati Germani per quam ipsum molendinum Beatie Marie
cum opus fuerit debet defendi. fol. 65.
Ut autem hec convencio firma sit et stabilis imperpetuum presens
scriptum sigillis utriusque partis roboratur.
Hiis testibus Andrea Brun Turstano de Balinor Olivero de Cestria
et Johanne filio ejus Willielmo Dubulday Roberto fratre ejus et multis
aliis.
This is the agreement made between the abbot and convent of
;St. Mary juxta Dublin of the one part and Germanus, son of Ran-
dulph Doubleday
: viz. that the abbot and convent shall have half
•of his mill and all the baking which proceeds from it
[at the common Text, III. 207.
oven], and the said Germanus and his heirs shall have the other half
.and all the baking which proceeds from that.
The original charter of the king for this mill, which William had,
has been handed down to the custody of the said Germanus, by
which [the title
to] the said mill and its rights may be defended.
Furthermore, that this agreement may be firm and stable in
perpetuity, the present deed is fortified by the seals of both parties.
Witnesses—Andrew Brown, Thurstan de Balinor, Oliver of Chester
^nd John his son, William Doubleday, Robert his brother, and many
•others.
This site is identified by the allusion to the churches
of St. Mary and St. Andrew. It was near here that,
in 1248, Henry III. established his castle mills at
the foot of the eastern slope of the Castle hill, upon
the small river Fodder. These were within the city
walls and near the gate called Gate del Dam, the
closing of which during the war in 1316 gave rise to
a subsequent claim by the millers. They also were
near the church of St. Mary del Dam.* Apparently,
*
Harris believes the name of the church to have been St. ; Mary a
suggestion which has probability, but lacks evidence and ; disregards the existence
la Dame
of the contiguous mill-dam. Warburton, in 1818, adopts Harris's opinion. But this
is no wonder, since in his pretentious History of Dublin, published in two quarto
volumes, he adopts bodily, verbatim et literatim, chapter by chapter, and without
acknowledgment, the whole three hundred pages of Harris's modest little tome on
the antiquities of Dublin. Warburton died before this work was published, or he
would doubtless have afforded some acknowledgment of a fact which his literary
executors scantily admit and do not — "
: explain The only history of the city
hitherto published is that of Harris its ; antiquities were highly valuable, and were
.made ample use of by Mr. Warburton."