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SOME FEUDAL MILLS. 53
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10. Thus after the lapse 111,- of three and a quarter^
centuries,
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largely spent by the abbey in
endeavouring abbey
II.
^ SHREWSBURY
to utilise its intangible charter rights over the town,
we find its power reduced again to the limits of the ^^- Reliquiae,
original provisional grant by Earl Roger — the milling
of its little rural estate of Abbey Foregate. This it
The Mill-race, Abbey Foregate, Shrewsbury.
seems to have more or less retained till the Dissolution ;
when, the mesne manor of Abbey Foregate being
acquired in 1558 by new owners, the three mills, dating
from Domesday, were kept going till even their
fragmentary soke over the countryside expired. Their
ruins were to be seen, within the last score years, not
far from the abbey church ; one of them closely ad-
joining the infirmary of the monastery,
and the others
farther up the still existing race on the south side of
the oft-mentioned road, Abbey Foregate.