^{page 74 note 1} Lichfield Joint Record Office, B/A/1/12, f. 170.

^{page 74 note 2} Harleian MS. 4799, ff. 2–4. The copies in this manuscript are inferior to those in the Bishops’ Register.

^{page 74 note 3} V.C.H. Staffordshire, iii (1970), 197.

^{page 74 note 4} Gould, J., ‘Food, Foresters, Fines and Felons’, Trans. South Staffs. Arch. and Hist. Soc. vii (1967), 21–39Google Scholar.

^{page 75 note 1} Ekwall, E., Dictionary of English Place-Names (1960), p. 367Google Scholar.

^{page 75 note 2} Prior Walter Durdent and Wibert witnessed a Canterbury document in 1146. Saltman, A., Theobald, Archbishop of Canterbury (London, 1956), p. 538Google Scholar. Ibid., p. 273 for the charter (1154–60) granting springs for the Canterbury conduit.

^{page 75 note 3} Pipe Roll 13 Henry II.

^{page 75 note 4} Savage, H. E., ‘Magnum Registrum Album’, Staffordshire Historical Collections (1924), pp. 83 and 87 (documents 180 and 186).Google Scholar

^{page 75 note 5} Lichfield Joint Record Office, map not yet catalogued.

^{page 75 note 6} Savage, op. cit., p. 317 (documents 672 and 673).

^{page 75 note 7} Wharton, H., Anglia Sacra, i (1691), p. 442Google Scholar, quoting the fourteenth-century Lichfield Chronicle.

^{page 76 note 1} Lichfield Joint Record Office B/A/1/12, f. 171 and verso.

^{page 76 note 2} Ibid., f. 171^v; Muniments of Dean and Chapter, no. 2.

^{page 76 note 3} Dugdale, W., Monasticon Anglicanum (London, 1846Google Scholar), vi, part 3, p. 1261.

^{page 77 note 1} Exact date unknown. Most of the information in this and the following paragraphs comes from uncatalogued documents in Lichfield Joint Record Office and from conversation with Mr. C. Bridgeman, the last person to maintain the conduit.

^{page 77 note 2} Lichfield Joint Record Office, Dean and Chapter muniment, 2.

^{page 77 note 3} Lichfield Joint Record Office, uncatalogued report by Arthur Hill Hassall, M.B.

^{page 77 note 4} County Record Office MS. D547/M/1/106–10.

^{page 77 note 5} Dean and Chapter Muniments, N22, Lichfield Joint Record Office.

^{page 77 note 6} Ibid., O5.

^{page 79 note 1} Laithwaite, P., History of Lichfield Conduit Lands Trust (Lichfield, 1947Google Scholar). This is concerned with the town water-supply and not with the supply to the Close.