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24 HISTORY OF CORN MILLING: VOL. IV.<br />

THE CASTLE<br />

MILLS,<br />

DUBLIN.<br />

8. At this period another Dublin watermill comes<br />

into the records. The Castle author<strong>it</strong>ies seem just<br />

then to have been attempting to consolidate, in one<br />

anJthe^Tty<br />

Mill, 1319-<br />

^^ ^^^ ^^ ^^^ ^^^'^^ methods, all possible soke rights<br />

<strong>of</strong> the king's mills. As already shown, <strong>it</strong> was in 13 19<br />

that the Exchequer questioned the t<strong>it</strong>le <strong>of</strong> St. Mary's<br />

Abbey to the Colygtheny plot <strong>of</strong> land, held as com-<br />

pensation for injury done by the Castle Mills ; and <strong>it</strong><br />

was in the same year that the same author<strong>it</strong>ies took<br />

steps to ascertain what possible soke rights might<br />

be claimed in respect <strong>of</strong> the mill which now comes<br />

under notice. On July 19 the mayor and corporation<br />

were served w<strong>it</strong>h a wr<strong>it</strong>, signed by Walter de<br />

Istlip, returnable for the next week, demanding<br />

payment <strong>of</strong> the rental <strong>of</strong> a mill near St. Werburgh's<br />

Gate for the past eighty-five years, at the rate <strong>of</strong> one<br />

pound <strong>of</strong> pepper per annum. This mill really had long<br />

been destroyed by the king's orders, a fact <strong>of</strong> which the<br />

author<strong>it</strong>ies were doubtless well aware ;<br />

the claim being<br />

made, therefore, solely to obtain from the corporation<br />

an acknowledgment <strong>of</strong> the t<strong>it</strong>le <strong>of</strong> the king to any<br />

<strong>milling</strong> rights that might appertain to the s<strong>it</strong>e. The<br />

is the wr<strong>it</strong> :—<br />

following<br />

Dublin Wh<strong>it</strong>e Rex maiori et ballivus suis civ<strong>it</strong>atis Dublin salutem. Quia<br />

Bk., fol. 96. constat nobis per inspectionem rotulorum memorandum de Scaccario<br />

nostro Dublin, quod tu ipse, maior, unacum commun<strong>it</strong>ate civ<strong>it</strong>atis<br />

predicte, nobis teneris in quatuor viginti et quinque libris piperis, de<br />

arreragio redd<strong>it</strong>us molendinorum aquaticorum extra portam Sancte<br />

Werburge juxta videlicet civ<strong>it</strong>atem predictam, ab anno regni regis<br />

Henrici avi nostri quintodecimo usque ad annum regni nostri<br />

duodecimum de quibus in nuUo nobis hucusque satisfactum est :<br />

Vobis precipimus, firm<strong>it</strong>er injungentes quod de bonis et catallis<br />

commun<strong>it</strong>atis civ<strong>it</strong>atis predicte, necnon et tui ipsius, predicte maior<br />

infra civ<strong>it</strong>atem predictam, ad quorumcunque manus devenerunt,<br />

predictas quater viginti et quinque libras piperis, sine dilacione,<br />

levare faciatis, <strong>it</strong>a quod totum piper predictum promptum habeatis<br />

ad predictum Scaccarium nostrum nobis solvendis die Lune proxima<br />

post festum Sancte Margarete Virginis, et habeatis ibi tunc hoc breve.<br />

Teste VValtero de Istlep, thesaurario nostro Hibernie, decimo<br />

nono die Julii anno regni nostri duodecimo

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