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A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins, Volume 1 (of 2)

Note 416 — CORN-MILLS.

William Johnston translation

See Carpentieri Gloss. Nov. ad Scriptores medii, ævi, (Supp. ad Ducang.) Paris, 1766, fol. vol. i. p. 266. In a chronicle written in the year 1290, a floating-mill is called molendinum navale, also navencum; and in another chronicle of 1301, molendinum pendens.

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