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In Saxon England most families had some kind of small grindstones in their houses.
When the Normans invaded England in 1066 one of their first laws was to prevent people grinding their own cereal crops to make flour at home. This became illegal and people had to pay the local miller to grind the flour for them; the miller had to pay a yearly amount to the king (since the king owned all the mills).
This was a very simple method of controlling the huge English population - in the event of any uprising against the Norman overlords, they would simply close all the mills and the people would starve.
By the 12th century, various types of watermill were everywhere and everyone was used to paying the miller; it had become part of the lifestyle. Cistercian monks invented a system of fullering cloth using enormous wooden hammers driven entirely by watermills, which replaced the earlier method of treading the cloth with human feet. By the end of the 12th century windmills started to be introduced from Europe and these gradually took over from watermills, although some survived into the Victorian era.
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 11y agoAfter 1066 the Normans entirely controlled food production in England by legislating against the home processing of cereal crops (corn) into flour. Everyone had to take their corn to a mill which was licensed by the king; people paid the miller and the miller had to pay the king. Since everyone depended entirely on bread as a staple food, this was an extremely profitable system for the crown coffers.
Mills were initially all water-powered, but with a variety of different systems for channelling the water against the wheel. The most efficient system was the "overshot" mill, where water at a higher level was used to drive the upper part of the mill wheel forwards.
By the late 12th century wind mills began to appear in Europe, copied from Arabic designs. Gradually they became widespread but never completely replaced watermills.
Watermills were also used for powering fulling machines (huge wooden hammers for beating cloth) and a range of other machinery such as hammers for pounding metal sheets for armour.
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∙ 9y agoJust as it does today, in the middle ages a mill was used to grind grain, or to saw wood. They were, however, two very different kinds of mills.
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