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SOME FEUDAL MILLS. 45
de communi II.
parte burgensium et eorum heredum. Ita quod
consensu utriusque partis sustententur vel amoveantur et alii loco SHREWSBURY
ipsorum sustituantur.
Si vera omnia molendina predicta unacum molendinis predic-
MILLS
torum abbatis et conventus in suburbio constructis ad multuram 6. Monastic
dicte ville non sufficiant et plura molendina de communi concensu Soke broken
levare voluerunt, tunc tam de sumptibus quam emolumentis eorundem 1 267.
molendinarum per omnia fiat inter partes, sicut de aliis molendinis
communibus ut predictum est.
Nullus vero de homnibus Salop impediet aliquem quominus ad
communia molendina predicta et ad molendinum predictorum
abbatis et conventus in suburbio et alibi pro voluntate sua propria
libere possit ire et ad ea molere.
In cujus rei, &c., Domino Walter de Merton ; Magistro Godefrid
Gyffard, tunc cancellario Domini regis ; Magistro John de Chyshull,
Domino Robert Walerand, John de la Lynde, Robt. Anguyllon, et
aliis magnatibus tunc apud Salop existentibus.
Whereas between the religious men the abbot and convent of
St. Peter of Salop on the one part, and the commonalty of the
burgesses of Salop on the other, motion is made in the court of the
lord the king regarding certain mills erected by the said burgesses
both within and without the said town contrary to the charters and
liberties of the said abbot and convent by divers kings and magnates
of England conceded to them, as fully shown by their charters ; and
whereas the burgesses have erected three horse-mills and one windmill
within the walls of the town and three watermills in the suburb
of the same :
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The said abbot and burgesses have agreed that the three mills
the suburb shall be pulled down and shall perpetually remain
prostrate. And that the four mills within the walls shall remain in
perpetuity either in the places where they now are or in any other
suitable places in the town, and by the common consent of the said
parties shall be raised, maintained, or transferred at their joint
expense. The said four mills shall be faithfully viewed, with regard
to the condition in which they now are, by twelve honest and legally
qualified men, not suspected of bias toward either party. If the
mills remain where they are, the abbot and convent shall refund to
the town one-half of their assessed value ; if they are removed by
the common consent of both parties, they shall be rebuilt and maintained
at their common cost. All expenses and receipts of the said
four mills shall be equally divided without contention between the
parties ; and the mills, with the millers and other servants therein,
shall be arranged and maintained by the common consent and at the
common cost of the parties.
Furthermore, it is provided and conceded by common counsel
and consent of the abbot and burgesses that on the river Severn
round about the town of Shrewsbury shall be erected and sustained
at the expense of both parties two watermills with their dams at
such places as may seem to both parties most convenient ; and all
the expenses and receipts of those mills, as of the other four already
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