. A Short account of the ancient and modern state of the city and close of Lichfield. ch 15, 1816, he thus speaks of them. They are all except the quartz pebbles, moreor less altered; but chalcedonies in the form ofconcentric agates, and of coralloidal agates ex-hibit the most remarkable changes. In the for-mer the chalcedonic zones are in many casesconverted into a white earth, while the nucleusof quartz remains untouched; and in the latter,the tubipoi es being of quartz, remain, while theinterstitial chalcedony has been in some casestotally, and others partially removed. In the same collecti
. A Short account of the ancient and modern state of the city and close of Lichfield. ch 15, 1816, he thus speaks of them. They are all except the quartz pebbles, moreor less altered; but chalcedonies in the form ofconcentric agates, and of coralloidal agates ex-hibit the most remarkable changes. In the for-mer the chalcedonic zones are in many casesconverted into a white earth, while the nucleusof quartz remains untouched; and in the latter,the tubipoi es being of quartz, remain, while theinterstitial chalcedony has been in some casestotally, and others partially removed. In the same collection are specimens of thephosphate of iron found in the mud of Minsterand Stowe pools. 108 WATER- Lichfield is supplied with excellent water fromsprings rising about a mile south-west of the city,at Aldershaw, whence it is conducted to the re-servoirs in pipes of cast iron. There wereanciently four or five stone conduits, placed atthe angles of the principal streets, from whichit was distributed through the city. The onlyone which remains, is the crucifix conduit atthe Friary WATER. 109 Henry Champanar, son of Michael de Lych-fielde, bell-founder, granted in pure and per-petualjrank-almoigne, for the use and solace ofthe fryers-minors, in Lychfielde, his fountains inFowlewell, or Bonniwell, near Aldershaw, toerect an head of stone, and there to shut in thewater, and to bring the pipes through his soyle,&c, &c, so that the fryers aforesaid, grant novessel of their water to any without speciallycence. On the dissolution of the monastery, HenryVIII. granted the water course to RichardCrumbilholine on Knights service. In the thirty-sixth of Henry VIII., HectorBeane and his brethren of the guild, gave bydeed of feoffment, houses and lands in Lichfieldand the county of Stafford, for the purpose ofsupplying the city with water, and the overplusto the commonwealth of the city at the discretionof eight feoffees, and six substantial inhabitants. The lands and houses are in Wyrley,
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