124 COURT ROLLS OF THE MANOR OF HOLMESFIELD. 



The following do not occur in the previous list : — Edwd. 

 Bomford, Ellen Harries, John Chapman, Eliz. . Fox, Rich, and 

 Christr. Dam, Allen Wright, Nich. Barnesley, Ric. Taylour, 

 Rob. Smysle, Edmd. Ronson, Will. Warde, Clemence Bradshaw, 

 Will. Key, Hugh Jowett, Rob. Skargell, Geo. Rexam, Jas. Morte, 

 Hen. Sheartclyffe, Ant. Hill, Cotton Hartley. 



Igofmeefiefb Court, (jpag xxvii.. 1613. 



^ James Mower has died since last court. 



1^ Sir Henry Ffanshawe is dead since last court. A heriot is 

 due. 



The jury present Adam Hawkesworth for not grinding his 

 corne growing within the lordship at the lord's mill ; — -and 

 Anthony Bright and Will. Woodhouse for the like. 



There was usually a mill attached to every manor, as well 

 for the convenience of the lord as of his dependents. The 

 tenants were obliged to assist in its reparation, and to keep the 

 water course and dam free from obstruction and mud. (The 

 tenants of the Abbot of Ramsey cleansed the pond at Shillington 

 Mill, Beds., on the Thursday in Whit-week every year.) They 

 were bound to grind their corn at the lord's mill, paying a multure. 

 Alexander de Whitworth held the manor of Woodham in capite 

 of the Prior of Durham, and among other duties he was to grind 

 his corn at the Mill of Ackley to the Twentieth dish, and all 

 his tenants were to grind there to the thirteenth dish. This is 

 obviously the amount of toll in the way of grist these tenants 

 were expected to contribute ; one dish for every sack — i.e., 

 thirteen sacks. It was the custom for millers to take their 

 toll for grinding by a vessel called a toll dish, so that 

 one dish would be taken out of each sack brought to be ground. 

 Of the size of the toll dish and its relation to the sack, there 

 seems no reliable evidence ; but the dishonesty of millers in 

 the olden time was proverbial. Almost every ancient court 

 roll records presentments of millers for taking " excessive " toll. 

 Fuller relates a quaint anecdote of the miller of Matlock who 

 happened to be in church while the Latin Gospel for Good 



