[1222] Mon. Franc. I, 6, 7, 9, 10. Bale’s statement that R. of Devon and W. Eton ‘seipsos castrabant’ is probably without any foundation, so far as the former is concerned; see William of Esseby.
[1223] Mon. Franc. I, 15. In the Phillipps MS. of Eccleston he is called ‘Ada de Exonia’ (fol. 72 b).
[1224] Ibid. 15-16.
[1225] ‘Toto famosus orbe,’ probably when Eccleston wrote, i.e. after Adam’s death.
[1226] ‘In die conversionis Sancti Pauli;’ Mon. Franc. I, 15.
[1227] ‘Fuit autem tunc socius Magistri Adae de Marisco et ad robas suas;’ ibid.
[1228] Ibid. 16.
[1229] Letter II (pp 17-21): Grostete was then Archdeacon of Leicester, an office which he resigned in 1231.
[1230] Mon. Franc. I, 16.
[1231] Ibid. 15.