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SOME FEUDAL MILLS. 5
same manner that the earliest chapel of Liverpool,
built on the edge of the Mersey, and designated mills,
St. Mary del Key, was ^^'
distinguished from the mother
church of St. Mary, Walton. The mill-dam at
Dublin was there before 1 1 79, when a deed attested
i-
1- S^^^' &c.,
by Goodmund, priest of Sainte Marie del Dam, shows Hist. Dublin,
it to be then in existence beside the church. About ?*\^^^*'
'^^^'
the year 1195 Prince John granted Doubleday the
site for his mill on the ancient mill-stream ; not long
afterwards the monks of the abbey acquired the mill ;
and ultimately, in 1248, Henry IIL established his
Castle Mills on the same race, which then and down
to modern times was the best spot within the walls
of Dublin for working a watermill.
The corporation of Dublin are early found in
possession
of the new mills as leaseholders under the
Crown ; a rental of Dublin city for about the year
the memorandum that '*
the City Hist, and Mun.
1290 containing
used to render for the farm of the mills juxta
Castle 13 marks [^8 13s. 4d.] per annum; but
the
^^^'
the
said mills are now in the hand of the lord the
king." There is no actual record of this lease extant,
apparently ; but if it were in existence in the time of
John la Warre, whose name as bailiff occurs in the same
rental, it would be about the year 1245. Ere long, in
any case, the leasing-out system was discontinued in
favour of direct working on behalf of the Crown.
^^ ^^ '
2. Very soon after the building of the Castle Mills 2. Compensa-
a difficulty arose ; the monks of St. Mary s Abbey Mlry's%254.
complaining that their district had been invaded, so
that they were losing trade to the value of 10 marks
per annum, and setting forth their grievance in a
petition to the king. Henry, not unmindful of the
civil law of soke rights, ordered an enquiry to be
held in Dublin ; and it being then proved that
matters were as the monks alleged, they were granted