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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