[674] Mazzinghi, Salt Arch. Soc. Trans., viii., 6; Eyton, Domesday Studies, p. 20.
[675] Monasticon, vi., 223: “Ecclesiam S. Nicholai in castello de Stafford.”
[676] Ordericus, vii., 12. See also vii., 13, p. 220 (ed. Prévost).
[677] Mazzinghi, Salt Arch. Soc. Trans., viii., 22.
[678] In a charter to Stone Abbey, Salt Collections, vol. ii. That the castle he speaks of was the one outside the town is proved by his references to land “extra burgum.”
[679] The Pipe Roll contains several entries relating to this gaol at Stafford. It is clear from several of the documents given by Mr Mazzinghi that the king’s gaol of Stafford and the king’s gaol of the castle of Stafford are equivalent expressions.
[680] Pipe Rolls, 2 John.
[681] Close Rolls, i., 69.
[682] Constitutional History, i., 272.
[683] Cited in Salt Arch. Soc. Trans., vi., pt. i., 258.