1. R. Palmer, The Folklore of Leicestershire and Rutland (Wymondham, 1985), 30–1
2. B. Trubshaw, Holy Wells and Springs of Leicestershire and Rutland (Leicestershire and Rutland Earth Mysteries series, pt. 2, Loughborough, 1990), 21–2
3. J. Rattue, ‘An inventory of ancient, holy and healing wells in Leicestershire’, Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society 67 (1993), 59–69, quotation at 65. J. Goodare has identified and assembled some of the evidence discussed below in ‘Wyclif in Lutterworth: myths and monuments’, Leicestershire Historian 3 (1983–4), 25–35.
4. See A. Fox, Oral and Literate Culture in England 1500–1700 (Oxford, 2000), ch. 4, esp. 214–27, quotation at 215
5. D. Woolf, The Social Circulation of the Past: English Historical Culture 1500–1730 (Oxford, 2003), ch. 9, esp. 310–15.