Multure
Multure, pronounced 'Mooter', was the name for the payment: a fixed proportion of the tenant's grain, paid to the miller by the suckener to grind the corn. The term 'Dry multure' was often used, indicating the multure that a tenant had to pay, whether the grain was to be ground or not. Failure to take grain to the thirled mill was termed 'abstracted multure' and could result in the suckener being fined. The term 'bannock' denoted the payment to a miller's servant amounting to a handful of meal, in addition to that given as knaveship, this being a handful of cereal from each load milled. After the abolition of thirlage the term 'Lick of goodwill' or 'lock' was the term for the miller's payment for grinding the cereal, etc.
Aiton records in 1811 that barley, wheat, pease, beans, and every form of green crop were exempt from multure.
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