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12 HISTORY OF CORN MILLING: VOL. IV.
THE CASTLE ^^^ officials of the mills, the city paying for the right
MILLS, the sum of /20 :—
DUBLIN.
quod termino Sancti Hilarii anno regis Edwardi
^ Memorandum
3. TheCityand filii regis Henrici, decimo, maior et communitas civitatis Dublin
the Keepers, fecerunt finem in Scaccario domini regis per viginti libras, ita quod
1280. nullus postea de civitate predicta admitteretur molendinis sub castro,
ad firmam, nee in custodia, nisi gratis voluerint. Et hoc idem
irrotulatur in Scaccario.
Memorandum. In Hilary Term, in the tenth year of the reign of
King Edward, the son of King Henry, the mayor and commonalty
of the city of Dublin have paid in the Exchequer of the lord the king
a fine of ;^2o, in order that in future no person of the said city may be
admitted to the farm or custody of the mills below the Castle, unless
they [the mayor and commonalty] shall freely have been willing.
Let this be enrolled in the Exchequer.
4. Committal of 4. In due course the mills were placed in charge
Keeper, 1306. of a keeper, the duties of whose office have already
Text, III. 126. been explained; but in 1306 this official had the
misfortune to be accused of neglect or fraud and
committed to the Castle :—
Ibid., III. 199.
Memorandum quod compertum est per thesaurarium et barones
quod Willielmus Molendinarius minus bene custodit molendina
domini regis juxta castrum Dublin : et magni defectus inveniuntur
in eisdem molendinis, ob defectum bene custodie quam predictus
debit facere : in contemptum domini regis et damnum gravissimum.
Ideo commissus est castro donee, &c.
Be it known that it is found by the Treasurer and barons [of the
Exchequer] that William the Miller has kept with but little care the
mills of the lord the king juxta the Castle of Dublin; and that a
great defect has been found in the same mills, for the lack of that
good custody which the said William should have rendered ; in contempt
of the lord the king and to his
he is committed to the Castle until
most serious loss. Therefore
The incompleteness of this record imparts to the
fate of the recalcitrant a somewhat uncanny aspect,
in view of the severity of the punishment for un-
faithful millers at
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Ancient Customs
the city mills, recited in the
of Dublin three years later (1309).
However, in the present case, William would doubt-
less but be imprisoned for a period sufficient to impress
upon him and others that the custody of a king's mill
was not a trifling affair to be lightly disregarded.