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58 HISTORY OF CORN MILLING: VOL. IV.
DEE^MiiLS ^^-g^^^ted his father's gifts to the abbey, with a notable
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CHESTER. addition :—
2. The Abbey Ego comes Ricardus post obitum patris mei dedi pro saluta
and the Mills, animse mea et suae terrain quse fuit Wulfrici proepositi foris portam
1093.
de North, prius per unam spicam frumenti deinde per unum cultellum
Ormerod super altare Sanctse : Werburgae et molendinum de Bache :
i. 17, 190.'
et tres
mansuras qiiietas et ab omni re liberas, duas in civitateet unam extra
de North. . . .
portam
Item Ricardus comes dedit decimum salmonem de ponte et
locum unius molendini citra pontem et decimum illius molendini
ultra pontem.
I, Earl Richard, after the death of my father, have given, for the
welfare of my soul and of his, the land which was Wulfric's over
against the North Gate, by service of first an ear of corn and afterwards
of a knife or sickle upon the altar of St. Werburgh's also the
;
mill of Bache also three ; messuages free from all dues, two being in
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the city and one outside the North Gate. . . .
Item : the Earl Richard has given the tithes of the salmon fishery
at the bridge and of the place of one mill on this side of the
bridge ;
also the tithes of that mill beyond the bridge.
The main consideration here is that, with extra land
at the North Gate, Richard gave the monks the
watermill of Bache in the same neighbourhood ; and
to that convenient locality there can be no doubt they
speedily transferred the soke of their tenants from the
bridge mill. He also granted, it seems to be stated,
the tithes of the fishery and of the corn mill on the
town side of the bridge, and of the mill on the other
side of the same, this subsequently and probably then
being a fulling mill. A corollary of this rearrangement
of affairs appears incidentally in one of the later pleadseveral
records that in
anno 11 19 Richard, then Earl of Cheshire, granted a
Harl. MSS., ings : ''It doth appear by
2082. 6.
rent of 5^' per an. to the then abbot of Chester for
and in respect of the tithes of the said [bridge] mills,
which rent is now [c. 1650] received by the Dean
and Chapter." But if the abbey had owned the corn
mill in 11 19, it would ordinarily also have owned the
tithe of the same. This grant of the tithe, therefore,
be taken as evidence that the monks had no
may