[416] 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_. [417] Damiani Opera, ed. Cajetani. Paris, 1743, fol. i. p. 105, lib. vi. epist. 23. [418] Dell’ Origine di alcune Arti Principali Appresso i Veneziani. Ven. 1758, 4to, p. 71. [419] Dialog. i. 2. [420] Histor. Francorum, lib. ix. 38, p. 462. [421] See Pomponius Sabinus, _ut supra_. [422] Lib. ix. c. 9; x. c. 1, 13. [423] Natur. Quæst. lib. v. c. 18. [424] Chrysost. in Psalm. cxxxiv. p. 362. [425] “At the same period (718) one named Halek the son of Uladi the weak, built close to the city an ingenious mill which was driven by water. It was visited by many Bohemians, in whom it excited much wonder, and who taking it as a model, built others of the like kind here and there on the rivers; for before that time all the Bohemian mills were wind-mills, erected on mountains.”--Wenceslai Hagecii Chronic. Bohem. translated into German by John Sandel. Nuremberg, 1697, fol. p. 13. [426] See De la Mare, Traité de la Police, &c. _ut supra_.--Déscription du Duché de Bourgogne. Dijon, 1775, 8vo, i. p. 163.--Dictionnaire des Origines, par d’Origny, v. p. 184. The last work has an attracting title, but it is the worst of its kind, written without correctness or judgement, and without giving authorities. [427] There are no wind-mills at Ispahan nor in any part of Persia. The mills are all driven by water, by the hand, or by cattle. Voyages de Chardin. Rouen, 1723, 8vo, viii. p. 221.--The Arabs have no wind-mills; these are used in the East only in places where no streams are to be found; and in most parts the people make use of hand-mills. Those which I saw on Mount Lebanon and Mount Carmel had a great resemblance to those which are found in many parts of Italy. They are exceedingly simple and cost very little. The mill-stone and the wheel are fastened to the same axis. The wheel, if it can be so called, consists of eight hollow boards shaped like a shovel, placed across the axis. When the water falls with violence upon these boards it turns them round and puts in motion the mill-stone over which the corn is poured.--Darvieux, Reisen, Part iii. Copenh. 1754, 8vo. I did not see either water- or wind-mills in all Arabia. I however found an oil-press at Tehama, which was driven by oxen; and thence suppose that the Arabs have corn-mills of the like kind.--Niebuhr, p. 217. [428] Mabillon, Annales Ord. Benedicti. Paris, 1713, fol. p. 474. [429] Dugdale, Mon. i. p. 816.--The letter of donation, which appears also to be of the twelfth century, may be found in the same collection, ii. p. 459. In it occurs the expression _molendinum ventriticum_. In a charter also in vol. iii. p. 107, we read of _molendinum ventorium_. See Dugdale’s Monasticon, ed. nov. vol. v. p. 431-442.