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SOME FEUDAL MILLS. 73
quantity as might be held on the extended hand ; and, besides, they
take from each poor person who brings one bushel or half a bushel
of corn to the said mill to be ground as much toll as should serve for
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four or six bushels carried there ; 7 Inquisition
And if it happen that any man as doth not grind his corne
afore the feaste aforesaid at the said milnes, and, after the said feast
doth go to the said milnes with his corn there to grind,
said keeper and milners do take of every such man in
the afore-
the same
manner and form as they do take afore the said feaste : that is to
say, the said measure called a schole : In great
extortion of the
common people, which is worth by year by estimation x mks
[^6 13s. 4d.] and more : And the said extortion they and their predecessors
have continued for xl years and more.
HI.
1400.
[The ambiguity or illegibility of the first part of this clause, which has constrained
the Elizabethan transcriber not to attempt its translation, still renders its
meaning slightly obscure.
The schole comprising i| measures is again referred to in the clause with
regard to the bakers ; where its true size is stated to be one span in length and
one in breadth. This illegal schole was li of ^ of a hoop = xV hoop, true measure Text, III. 162.
and razed. By the clause " Too Large a Toll Hoop " the true hoop seems to have
been half a peck on ; which basis the illegal schole was equal to ^^ peck.
The tribulus or toll-dish and the hoop-measure are mentioned in the inventory Ibid., ante, p.
22.
of Dublin Mills in 1319, and appear in various medieval records.
The taking of flour by the handful, illegally practised here, was more anciently Ibid,, III. 148.
a legal method of rough measurement.]
They say also that where bruers in the said city were
or tie ruers.
^qj^j. |-q grind their malt in the milnes aforesaid at
sextene graines as is above said, that is to say, of sexe sacks or
milners of
eight sacks, one tolle hope to pay ; now, the present
every sack containing twoe cranocke. . . . Which tolle hope they
were used to have of the aforesaid bruers to their own use for their
sustenance, so that they should help the said bruers in the said
milnes to bear their corne to the hopper to be ground, and to lift
their sacks upon their horses : Now they will not help as they be
bounden : and the aforesaid keeper and milners do take and of long
time have taken of every six graynes one tollhope in extortion : And
above that tollhope do take half a tollhope and the fourth part of a
tollhope where they ought to take nothing : To the great damage
and extortion of the common people to the value by year of twenty
pounds and more, and the same extortion they and their predecessors
have used of forty years as is aforesaid.
[The matter of assisting to load and unload the brewers' horses, either for a Ibid, III. 133.
fee or without, was precisely one of those customs established by usage, if not set
out in original customs rolls, liable to abuse. It is to such a det.ail as this that
the extra "certain fees and vailes to the milners," set out in the Ancient Customs,
would apply. If such fees were once allowed to lapse, any resumption of them
would inevitably be declared an extortion.]
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They also say that in the time of the said Earl
at°thTmilnes^^ Rannulph it was made an order that every man
going to the said milnes with his corn there to grind
that only he should pay but his toll, without more : Now the aforesaid
keeper and milners do take above the said toll of divers men,