[767] Walsingham, Gesta Abbatum (Rolls Ser.), II, p. 519, and V.C.H. Herts. IV, p. 429. On their misdeeds see Archbishop Morton’s famous letter in 1490. Wilkins, Concilia, III, p. 632.
[768] See Cal. of Papal Letters, VI, pp. 159-160.
[769] Mention of custodes occurs at the following houses, in addition to those mentioned in the text: Studley (1290), Goring (1309), V.C.H. Oxon. II, pp. 78, 104; Markyate (1323), Harrold (late thirteenth century), V.C.H. Beds. I, pp. 359, 388; Flamstead (1337), Rowney (1302, 1328), V.C.H. Herts. IV, pp. 432, 434; Arden (1302, 1324), Marrick (1252), Nunburnholme (1314), Yedingham (1280), Basedale (1304), Hampole (1268, 1280, 1308), Handale (1318), Nunappleton (1306), Swine (1267, 1291, 1298), V.C.H. Yorks. III, pp. 113, 117, 119, 127, 159, 163, 166, 171, 180; all in Lincoln or York. For mention of custodes in other dioceses, see Cookhill (1285), Reg. of Godfrey Giffard (Worc. Hist. Soc.), II, p. 267; St Sepulchre’s Canterbury, Davington, Usk, Whitehall (Ilchester), Minchin Barrow, Easebourne, St Bartholomew’s Newcastle, King’s Mead, Derby, below, pp. [231-5] passim. The frequency with which custodes occur in houses in the diocese of Lincoln and York and their rarity in other dioceses would seem to support the theory of Gilbertine influence. Of the cases quoted from other dioceses all are either custodes appointed as a deliberate policy by Archbishop Peckham, or custodes appointed to meet some special moral or financial crisis, not regular officials. King’s Mead, Derby, seems to be the only nunnery outside the two dioceses of York and Lincoln (with the exception of those in direct dependence on a house of monks) which started its career under the joint government of a custos and a Prioress. V.C.H. Derby, II, p. 43.
[770] Reg. of John le Romeyn (Surtees Soc.), I, pp. xii, xiii, 86, 125, 157, 180.
[771] Linc. Epis. Reg. Memo. Dalderby, ff. 23d, 37, 44, 60d, 79d, 118d, 328d, 366, 373, 378, 382, 388. (These comprise two appointments to Rowney, Godstow and Nuncoton; the dates are between 1301 and 1318.)
[772] Reg. of John le Romeyn, I, pp. 203-4, 209, 211, 217.
[773] Linc. Epis. Reg. Memo. Sutton, ff. 82d-83.
[774] V.C.H. Lincs. II, p. 179. But in 1318 Dalderby appointed the vicar of Little Coates, loc. cit. f. 373. Originally St Leonard’s Grimsby, had been placed under the protection of the canons of Wellow.
[775] Reg. of Archbishop Giffard (Surtees Soc.), p. 54.
[776] V.C.H. Yorks. III, p. 113.