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SOME FEUDAL MILLS. 21
The claim gives us a brief glimpse of i-
the stirring
times during which the two lessees held the Castle mills,
dunlin.
Mills. The entire English military power in Ireland
was absorbed in encountering Bruce, who, by the ^- Damages
closing of the Gate del Dam and the injury of the
Castle mill actually within the walls, seems to have
been met at very close quarters. Roger Mortimer,
Earl of March, had landed in Dublin in that year
(13 16), having been appointed to succeed Butler, and
in a short time they were both in the field at the
head of 30,000 men. John de Hotham, an ecclesiastic
standing high in the confidence of Edward II., had
taken charge of affairs at the Castle during the absence
of Butler in 131 5-16 ;
and though designated as viceroy
by the millers, he was but a locum tenens for that
absent official, and his name does not occur in the
published lists of those who have held that supreme
office. Walter de Istlip, Treasurer, had left Ireland
in 1 3 1 7 to quell riots in Lancashire ; but returned in
1 3 19, and is then found issuing a writ to the Mayor of
Dublin regarding an old mill in the city, as mentioned
later. Arnold le Poer, who had taken the field with
Butler in 13 16, became famous six years later in his
contest with the Bishop of Ossory, on the occasion
of Lady Kytiler being arraigned before his lordship
for
"
witchcraft. Go to your church with your decretals
and preach there," quoth the indignant Arnold to the
prelate ; but the would-be reformer ere long died in
1316-17.^'
prison.
7. Among the jurymen summoned to try the fore- 7. Oath of
going case at Easter, 1320, were John Siward and ^^^P^^^' ^^^9
Galfred of Wales, these being two of the new sworn
keepers now installed in the Castle Mills in place of
the lessees. These keepers, eight in all, were sworn in
on April 8, 13 19, and four days later were furnished
with a copy of an inventory of the plant of the mills