[787] V.C.H. Derby, II, pp. 43-4 (from Ancient Petitions, No. 11730); cf. Cal. Pat. Rolls, 1327-30, p. 139. See above, p. [180].
[788] Linc. Visit. II, p. 7.
[789] Alnwick’s Visit. MS. f. 39d.
[790] Linc. Visit. II, p. 117.
[791] See e.g. V.C.H. Yorks. III, pp. 113, 117, 119.
[792] Yorks. Arch. Journal, XVI, p. 362.
[793] It will be noticed that all the references to custodes given on p. 230, note 8, belong to the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries; appointments at a later date are generally made to meet some regular crisis. There are no references to the Prior of St Michael’s Stamford in the later account rolls of that house, though one or two rolls belonging to the beginning of the century mention him. One of the few references to the regular appointment of a master in a Cistercian house after the first quarter of the fourteenth century is at Legbourne, where “later Lincoln regulations record the appointment of several masters from 1294-1343 and in 1366 the same official is apparently called an yconomus of Legbourne” (V.C.H. Lincs. II, p. 154, note 1). The will of Adam, vicar of Hallington, “custos sive magister domus monialium de Legbourne,” dated 1345, has been preserved. Gibbons, Early Lincoln Wills, p. 17. The yconomus of Gokewell in 1440 is a very late instance. (Compare Bokyngham’s advice to the Abbess of Elstow in 1387, above, p. [228].) Much the same function as that of the custos, was, however, probably performed by the steward (senescallus), an official often mentioned during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
[794] See account in L. Eckenstein, Woman under Monasticism, ch. IV.
[795] L. Eckenstein, Woman under Monasticism, ch. IV, pp. 160 ff.
[796] Ib. pp. 238 ff.