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6 HISTORY OF CORN MILLING: vol. iv
THE CASTLE ^" Compensation a plot of land with an annual rental
MILLS, equal to their loss on milline:.* The title of the monks
DUBLIN.
2. Compensa-
11 .1 1 , X
to the plot was questioned some years later (13 19)
^.j^^
i^y Exchequer but the monks ; again appealed
Mary's, 1254. to the king; and the rolls being searched, the
original writ of found in the
was made in
Henry III., as quoted below, was
Exchequer. On this occasion a record
the Dublin Exchequer, comprising the
various facts, and giving a succinct and interesting
account of the royal deference to ordinary manorial
milling law.
Mem. Rolls Edwardus &c. thesaurario et camerariis suis de Scaccario
of Ireland, Dublin salutem :—
13 Ed. II. Ex parte dilecti nobis in Christo abbatis Beate Marie juxta
Dublin nobis est ostensum quod cum ipse per quoddam breve, dudurn
avi nostri terre
per consilium domini Henrici quondam regis Anglie
predicte factum et sigillo ejusdem avi nostri quo tunc utebatur in
eadem terra, sub testimonio Johannis Filii Galfridi tunc justiciari
ipsius avi nostri terre ejusdem consignatum tenuit ipse, quam et
predecessores sui, abbates ejusdem domus semper hactenus a tempore
confeccionis brevis predicti pacifice tenuerunt unam carucatam et
quatuordecim acras terre cum pertinenciis in Novo Castro in comitatu
Dublin, in recompensacionem dampni quod quidam predecessor
Potsdam Palace Mill.
* Apropos to the foregoing is
the modern story of Frederick the
Great, when building his palace at
Potsdam, respecting the objection a
local miller entertained to having
his windmill pulled down. The
miller, whose forefathers had held
the place, refusing to sell, it was
ultimately allowed to remain; and
it may still be seen in a restored
condition and among ornate sur-
roundings in close proximity to the
palace. A pendant to this story is
one told us regarding Dr. Hughes,
late Bishop of Bangor, who was
advised, on taking possession of the
episcopal residence, to have removed
an old watermill which was considered
to impede the view of the
landscape. "No, let it be," said
the
"
bishop I am the son of a
;
miller, and the place reminds me of
old times."