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18 HISTORY OF CORN MILLING: vol. iv.
Ipotuerunt
quam quadraginta solidis, pro eo quod idem molendinum
MILI^^^ in illo anno per decern et octo septimanas confractum fuit et
DUBLIN. prostratum jacuit antequam reparatum fuit.
Unde summa pecunie, juxta veredictum inquisicionis predicte,
6. Damages prefatis custodibus molendinorum in hac parte allocate, se extendit
during War, ad tresdecim libras decem et sex solidos quatuor denarios, unde
13 1 6-1 7. ipsi custodes exoneracionem consecuti sunt in arreragiis suis pre
dictis : sicut plenius continetur in compoto eorundem custodum
in magnis, videlicet, rotulis de hoc anno decimotercio.
Shuttleworth,
Accounts, Ch.
Soc, xliii. 558.
Hist, and Mun.
Doc. Ireland,
•
Et sic sunt adhuc super eosdem custodes quatuor libre viginti
denarii, unde ipsi postea solverunt quatuor libras, sicut patet per
quandem talliam de Scaccario hie que eis inde allocantur in compote
suo predicto. Et sic ipsi adhuc inde debent viginti denarios.
Memorandum. Walter de Keppok and Randolph de Loung,
late keepers of the mills of the lord the king juxta the Castle of
Dublin, should have rendered to the Exchequer here their account
for the time they had the said mills : upon which account they
have remained in arrears amounting to ;^t7 i8s., as fully appears
from an inspection of their account.
Subsequently the said Walter and Randolph appeared
before the
Treasurer and barons here, and by a certain petition presented to
this Exchequer made serious complaint that on the said account
they are unduly charged with toll as follows :—On 18 crannocs* of
wheat flour for Edmund Butler, formerly Justiciary of Ireland ; on
60 crannocs 5 pecks of wheat flour for John de Hotham, formerly
Viceroy in Ireland ; on 60 crannocs of wheat flour for Roger de
Mortimer, also late Viceroy in Ireland; and on 10 crannocs of
wheat flour and malt for Master William de Istlip, Treasurer of
Ireland. This grain was ground at various times at the mills while
Walter and Randolph were custodians there ; but, as they say, they
took no toll from it, nor have they had any ; and thus, little by little,
they have been unjustly charged in the account of the lord the king
for the above toll, which should amount to 10 crannocs or more.
They also complained that the men of Arnold le Poer took from
the same keepers a certain horse of the value of 14s. which served
the said mills ; and in the same way the men of Roger Mortimer
aforesaid subsequently took from them a certain other horse bought
* The case throws some light upon the capacity of the crannoc. In the verdict
of the jury 2 pecks are reckoned as a fourth of a crannoc, which therefore was
equal to 8 pecks or 2 bushels.
" '
The word crannoc '
is not to be found in Promptormm Parvulortan (1449),
Halliwell's Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Brockett's Glossary, &c. ;
and we have been unable to ascertain the quantity represented by the term,"
"The Irish crannoc was a basket of twigs lined with the skin of a beast, and
had no certain dimensions, but was understood to contain the produce of seven
score sheaves of corn, which, however, must have varied greatly. Perhaps it
generally amounted to about the quantity of the barrel of Bristol brought into use
in Ireland when the English settled there : hence occurs the frequent use of the
term 'crannoc' for 'barrel.'"