[757] V.C.H. Lincs. II, pp. 148, 150, 154 (note 1).
[758] V.C.H. Northants. II, p. 121.
[759] V.C.H. Yorks. III, pp. 178-9, and Reg. of Archbishop Giffard (Surtees Soc.), pp. 147-8. The canons at these houses must be distinguished from the canons who held prebendal stalls in the Abbeys of Romsey, St Mary’s, Winchester, Wherwell, Wilton and Shaftesbury; these were often bad pluralists and could have been of little use to the abbeys, as chaplains or as custodes. See V.C.H. Hants. II, pp. 122-3 and p. [144] above, note 1.
[760] Loc. cit. Compare the complaint of the nuns of Brodholme in 1321-2. “A nostre Seyngnur le Roy e a son Counsaill monstrent le Prioresse el Covente de Brodholme, qe lour Gardayns de la dit meson par lour defaute sount lour Rentes abatez, e lour meson a poy ennente e le dit Gardayns ne vollent nulle entent mettre ne despender pur les ayder kaunt eles sount empleydie, mes come eles meymes defendent a graunt meschef. Pur qoi eles prient pur l’amour de Dieu, trescher Seygnour, pur l’alme vostre Pier, e ouir de charite, qe Vous vollez graunter vostre Charter qe l’avantdit Prioresse el covent pouissent avoir lour rentes e lour enproumens, de ordiner a lour voluntes, e al profist de la dit meson, si pleiser Vous soit, Kare autrement ne poivent eles viver.” The reply was “Injusta est peticio, ideo non potest fieri.” Rot. Parl. I, pp. 393-4. Brodholme was one of the only two convents of Premonstratensian nuns in England; the guardians were probably the canons of the Premonstratensian Abbey of Newhouse; for an ordinance (1354, confirmed 1409) regulating the relations between the two houses, see Cal. of Papal Letters, VI, pp. 159-60.
[761] V.C.H. Lincs. II, p. 148 (from Pat. 2 Edw. II, pt ii, m. 22d.).
[762] Linc. Epis. Reg. Memo. Dalderby, f. 330. Roger de Dauentry, canon of Catesby, had been made master in 1297. Reg. Memo. Sutton. f. 175.
[763] Reg. Epis. Johannis Peckham, III, pp. 850-1.
[764] V.C.H. Northants. II, p. 98.
[765] V.C.H. Derby. II, p. 43.
[766] Loc. cit. see also Linc. Epis. Reg. Institution Roll (Northampton) of Sutton for the presentation of William de Stok, monk of Peterborough as Prior of St Michael’s Stamford, by the Abbot, and the Bishop’s ratification.