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26 HISTORY OF CORN MILLING: vol. IV.
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there, one Roger, the corviser [trumpeter ?] of Bristol, who was an
adventurer [or newcomer] in the city of Dubhn, caused to be
DUBLIN. erected a mill below the Castle ; for the site of which mill at that
time, and for having opened a road towards the church of St. Peter
8. The King de la Hulle, for the carrying of grain to the said mill to be ground,
and the City the said Roger and other tenants of the mill used to be responsible
Mill, 1319. for the payment of a pound of pepper per annum rent to our lord
the king. But after that time the justices and treasurers, who saw
the said mill annoying and perilous to the Castle and adjoining
too nearly to the mills of our lord the king, caused the same to
be pulled down and altogether abolished. And the place where
formerly was the site of the mill is now a small park appropriated
to the Castle ; and another place alongside where formerly was the
pool of the mill was the land of Serlot of Ripon, who rendered
every year to our lord the king two sous, which the constable
received. Thus our lord the king is seized of the soil whence the
rent of one pound of pepper used to issue ; and for that reason the
citizens are discharged from liability for arrears, together with those
who still dwell there.
The Sir John Fitz Geoffrey above mentioned was
viceroy in *'
1245, and Sir Geoffrey de Tureville " is
apparently identical with Sir Geoffrey de Geneville,
who held the same office in 1273. The mill is stated
to have been built by Roger of Bristol therefore
before 1245. Roger of Bristol was treasurer of St.
Patrick's Cathedral 1219-23, and prebend of the
church of St. Mary del Dam, near the Castle and
the Castle Mills. The mill he built was not quite
in this locality and was not one of the Castle Mills,
being situated near St. Werburgh's Gate, on the upper
part of the stream which drove the king's mills. Till
its destruction by order of the king, as being too near
the latter mills, the corporation had leased it, probably
in the fee-farme of the city ; and subsequently they
claimed no title to rebuild it.*
Hist, and Mun. * The corporation in 1261 made violent reprisals upon another watermill only
Doc. Ireland, 219. mentioned in the records in connection with this circumstance. A dispute arose in
that year between the corporation and the priory of St. John at Kilmainham with
respect to the fishing-net of the former placed under the bridge of Kilmainham.
The prior and his men having demoHshed this net, the corporation, adopting the
same tactics, " went to a certain mill of the said prior, and, by force of arms, threw
down the same."