Downloading Mail From Hotmail Using Outlook

I am newbie to Outlook.  Yesterday I was about to download email from
one of my Hotmail  accounts but not from the other but it said it was
a paid service.   I think it's like $50 a year to do this.  How can
this be that I was able to do it with another Hotmail account but not
another?

All I want to do is clear out my messages from one of my Hotmail
acounts and close it down. I don't want to pay $50 to save my email.
Does anyone know anything about this?

Thanks

Matt