History of corn milling .. - Centrostudirpinia.it
History of corn milling .. - Centrostudirpinia.it History of corn milling .. - Centrostudirpinia.it
64 HISTORY OF CORN MILLING VOL. IV. DEE^MiLLS, ^" inquest was accordingly held, and the jury found CHESTER, in Richard's favour on all the counts, av^arding him 3. Claims by as total damages a sum of ^154, for which the king hT^?^l^ was legally responsible, and which in due course was 1278-1289. no doubt paid :— Inquisitio facta eodem anno : quando juratores dixerunt quod postquam Dns. Rex. molendina sua et piscariam pontis Cestrige Magro Ricardo Ingeniatori ad firmam 12 annorum tradidissit : primo anno ejusdem firme, tante inundationes aquarum frequenter supervenientium extiterunt, dum idem Ricardus stetit in servitio Dni. Regis apud Karnarvan, quod crates piscarie subtus pontem atachiari non potuerunt : et quod gurgites piscarie predicte et granaria cum parietibus molendinorum extirpati et asportata fuerunt : unde idem Harl. MSS., Ricardus dampnum et jacturam 40 librarum sustinuit. Item quod 2083. 512. per tres annos sequentes dum idem Ricardus, per vices, in servitio Dni. Regis stetit in Wallia, per super-habundantes inundationes aquarum, gurgites et crates predicte, una cum calceto ibidem, dissipata et asportata fuerunt : unde idem Ricardus, quoad piscarium predictam, dampnum et jacturam ad valentiam 60 librarum incurrit. Item, quod per tempus quo idem Ricardus stetit in servitio Dni. Regis apud Trosselan, calcetum predictum per hujusmodi inundationes, dirutum et asportatum extitit ; per quod molendina predicta fere per unum quarterium anni molare non : potuerunt unde per hoc et tales inundationes frequenter per totum tempus predictum supervenientes molendina predicta sepius absque molitione steterunt : per quod ipse Ricardus, quoad multuram per tempus predictum dampnum et jacturam ad valentiam 54 librarum optinuit. An inquisition was held the same year, when the jurors found :— After the lord the king had granted his mill and fishery at Chester Bridge to Master Richard the Engineer to farm for twelve years, during the first year, when Richard was in the service of the king at Carnarvon, floods so frequently rose above the ordinary that it was impossible to fix the fish-weirs under the bridge, and the sluices of the fishery, the granary, with the walls of the mills, were extirpated and carried away, by which the said Richard incurred in losses and breakages ;£4o. Also in three succeeding years, when Richard was several times in Wales in the service of the lord the king, various inundations scattered and carried away the sluices and weirs aforesaid, as well as the walking (or fulling) mill there; by which the said Richard incurred, as regards the fishery, damages amounting to ;^6o. Also, when Richard was at Trosselan on the service of the king, the aforesaid fulling mill was broken down and carried away by similar floods, so that the said mill could not be worked for a quarter of a year ; by which and such-like common inundations during the said term the said mill often remained wholly without earnings ; for which the said Richard has claimed on account of multure and breakages damages to the extent of j£s4-
SOME FEUDAL MILLS. 66 Richard Ingeniator was mayor of Chester in 1304, DEE^JJirLs but he seems to appear no more in connection with Chester.' the mills. Ormerod tabulates Robert de Glasham 3. claims by ''farmer of the mills and bridge of Chester," 1321 ; Lessee, and Bartholomew de Northworkyn ''farmer of the ^^ ^^ .^* mills and fishery of the Dee for three years," 1347;!. 225. and Pennant states that Edward the Black Prince granted the mills for life to Howell of Favyall, as a reward for bravery at the battle of Poitiers. 4. At Chester the year 1356 (29 Ed. IIL) was an 4. Customs ^"^ Court, important one ; the king then confirming by royal writ, as the recognised legal customs of Dee Mills, those usages which had already prevailed there time out of mind ; usages to which in the numerous law- suits of the lessees of these mills in the seventeenth century their pleas as to custom invariably go back, as to a solid foundation rock of indisputable evidence. There were and are divers ancient customs belonging to the Harl. MSS., said mills in Scio Cestriae temp. Edward III. intituled :— 2081. 168. Consuetudines Molendinos de Dee vsitat a tempore cuius contrarium memoria non existat : viz.— Quod omnes manentes in civitate Cestriae debent molare blada sua in molend. de Dee et debent dno xvj grafi pro tolnet : saving that there are some particular persons excepted who are noiated in the Records. Gustos diio molend sive fermarius sive alius solebat tenere Cur. sua de oibus transgr factis in eisdm molend. sive in piscar adjunc : et nuUus attach, in molend pdcis ex quacunq. causa. Si aliquis cariavit blada sua ad molend aliqua alia molend. prima vice dca blada erunt forisfacta, et firmarius dicto molend. habit blada : pdca et si quis bis cariavit firmarius habit blada : pdca et dno Comes tertia vice quod sic cariavit cm equis sup quod blada sunt cariat forisfacta. Nullus de civitate pdca habit molas manuales in piudice dco molend. With particular customs for fees and vailes to the milners. In the Exchequer Court, Chester :— Customs of the mills of Dee from the time whereof memory to the contrary exists not, viz. :— Every one dwelling in the city of Chester should grind their corn at the mills of Dee, and pay the lord the sixteenth vessel for toll ; except certain persons named in the records [namely, the tenants of the abbey of St. Wybergh]. VOL. IV. E
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SOME FEUDAL MILLS. 66<br />
Richard Ingeniator was mayor <strong>of</strong> Chester in 1304, DEE^JJirLs<br />
but he seems to appear no more in connection w<strong>it</strong>h Chester.'<br />
the mills. Ormerod tabulates Robert de Glasham 3. claims by<br />
''farmer <strong>of</strong> the mills and bridge <strong>of</strong> Chester," 1321 ; Lessee,<br />
and Bartholomew de Northworkyn ''farmer <strong>of</strong> the ^^ ^^ .^*<br />
mills and fishery <strong>of</strong> the Dee for three years," 1347;!. 225.<br />
and Pennant states that Edward the Black Prince<br />
granted the mills for life to Howell <strong>of</strong> Favyall, as<br />
a reward for bravery at the battle <strong>of</strong> Po<strong>it</strong>iers.<br />
4. At Chester the year 1356 (29 Ed. IIL) was an 4. Customs<br />
^"^ Court,<br />
important one ; the king then confirming by royal<br />
wr<strong>it</strong>, as the recognised legal customs <strong>of</strong> Dee Mills,<br />
those usages which had already prevailed there time<br />
out <strong>of</strong> mind ; usages<br />
to which in the numerous law-<br />
su<strong>it</strong>s <strong>of</strong> the lessees <strong>of</strong> these mills in the seventeenth<br />
century their pleas as to custom invariably go back, as<br />
to a solid foundation rock <strong>of</strong> indisputable evidence.<br />
There were and are divers ancient customs belonging to the Harl. MSS.,<br />
said mills in Scio Cestriae temp. Edward III. int<strong>it</strong>uled :— 2081. 168.<br />
Consuetudines Molendinos de Dee vs<strong>it</strong>at a tempore cuius contrarium<br />
memoria non existat : viz.—<br />
Quod omnes manentes in civ<strong>it</strong>ate Cestriae debent molare blada<br />
sua in molend. de Dee et debent dno xvj grafi pro tolnet : saving<br />
that there are some particular persons excepted who are noiated in<br />
the Records.<br />
Gustos diio molend sive fermarius sive alius solebat tenere Cur.<br />
sua de oibus transgr factis in eisdm molend. sive in piscar adjunc : et<br />
nuUus attach, in molend pdcis ex quacunq. causa.<br />
Si aliquis cariav<strong>it</strong> blada sua ad molend aliqua alia molend. prima<br />
vice dca blada erunt forisfacta, et firmarius dicto molend. hab<strong>it</strong> blada<br />
: pdca et si quis bis cariav<strong>it</strong> firmarius hab<strong>it</strong> blada : pdca et dno<br />
Comes tertia vice quod sic cariav<strong>it</strong> cm equis sup quod blada sunt<br />
cariat forisfacta.<br />
Nullus de civ<strong>it</strong>ate pdca hab<strong>it</strong> molas manuales in piudice dco<br />
molend.<br />
W<strong>it</strong>h particular customs for fees and vailes to the milners.<br />
In the Exchequer Court, Chester :—<br />
Customs <strong>of</strong> the mills <strong>of</strong> Dee from the time where<strong>of</strong> memory to<br />
the contrary exists not, viz. :—<br />
Every one dwelling in the c<strong>it</strong>y <strong>of</strong> Chester should grind their <strong>corn</strong><br />
at the mills <strong>of</strong> Dee, and pay the lord the sixteenth vessel for toll ;<br />
except certain persons named in the records [namely, the tenants <strong>of</strong><br />
the abbey <strong>of</strong> St. Wybergh].<br />
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