History of Corn Milling, Vol. 4 (Classic Reprint) PDF Download

Author: Richard Bennett
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ISBN: 9781330821541
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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Excerpt from History of Corn Milling, Vol. 4 The short histories of mills comprising this concluding volume are intended to illustrate the actual operation of the various laws and customs already recited in detail. They recount how, in accordance with those laws and customs, milling soke in each district was locally created by the superior lord; how it was maintained, by his heirs or assigns, with considerable trouble to themselves and much anxiety to the public; and how, finally, with the march of the times the force of popular hostility gradually overcame and extinguished it. This was the general fate of milling soke throughout the country, though in some few instances, as related in a previous volume, the ancient privileges had been preserved even down to the present century, and were only abolished at last by public purchase. It will be remembered that, as no general statute law had created soke, so no law at one stroke abolished it throughout the kingdom. Thus each district was thrown entirely upon its own resources to obtain relief from what, once a valuable boon, had become an intolerable yoke on the people and an impolitic hindrance to industrial and commercial progress. Histories of corn mills constitute a somewhat novel branch of archaeology. But since the issue of the first volume of this work, various local antiquaries have shown that it is an interesting and fruitful one; an excellent illustration of what may be done in this direction being afforded by a history of certain ancient mills at Glasgow, written by their owner, a practical miller, Mr. James White, F.S.A. (Scotland). About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.