“The origins of the second mill to be built at Clints are obscure but evidence that one had been built comes from a sale made in 1614. John Layburne, one of the legatees under the will of John Bradley, sold his land at Orgate to Robert Willance, who had taken over the lease after his father’s death in 1602. Included in the sale was “one smelt mill” which for convenience will be called Willance’s mill.”
Quote from Mining and Smelting in the Marske Aread, Swaledale by Leslie Owen Tyson.