think reasonable, and for the time to come he will noe longer let that mill stand or be of use for grinding than he shall have the good will of the parson of Wigan for the time being; and all the while it shall stand he promiseth to pay to the parson and his successors the just tenth of the toll and profits thereof, or to stand to the payment of what some he shall require as reasonable thereto; and to perform all the [said] promises he binds himself and his heirs and executors in a £100 current English money.
Memorand. that it is further agreed that whiles the said horse mill doth stand and is of use by sufferance and approbation of the parson of Wigan, the said Hugh Forth or his assignes shall pay yearly for the profits thereof to the parson the some of three shillings four pence at Christmas and Midsummer.
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Having thus settled with the then tenant of Mr. Gerard's mill for its suppression, he subsequently proceeded against a new tenant whom Mr. Gerard had since put in, and on 1st February of the following year, 1619-20, the following agreement was made with the landlord concerning it:
"Whereas there hath in parson Fleetwood's tyme been erected a new corn water mill in the mannor of Wigan by Miles Gerard of Ince, gent, deceased, whereupon sute was begun in the Dutchy by the said parson complayning that it is done in prejudice of him as lord of that mannor of Wigan, and of his sute com mills in Wigan Town; and whereas since that tyme the jurors of my Court Baron of Wigan have questioned the said mill now in the occupation of Thomas Gerard son of the said Miles, and find that it is but lately erected in the memory of man, and sett upon Lorington brook, which was a boundary between the mannors of
- ↑ Wigan Leger, fol. 26.
