"Custos" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... named in the schedule. (The Lord Chancellor made the appointment, usually relying upon the Lord Lieutenant, or the custos rotulorum, ...
— Chaucer's Official Life • James Root Hulbert
... Swynford, miles, custos castri villae Calisii et Nicholaus de Rysshetoun, utriusque juris professor." They admit that French is the language of treatises; but Latin was used by St. Jerome. They write to the duchess of Burgundy: "Et quamvis treugae generales ...
— A Literary History of the English People - From the Origins to the Renaissance • Jean Jules Jusserand
... 1829 Charles Jenkin was in the same watch with another midshipman, Robert Colin Campbell-Jackson, who introduced him to his family in Jamaica. The father, the Honourable Robert Jackson, Custos Rotulorum of Kingston, came of a Yorkshire family, said to be originally Scottish; and on the mother's side, counted kinship with some of the Forbeses. The mother was Susan Campbell, one of the Campbells of Auchenbreck. Her father, Colin, a merchant in Greenock, is said ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 9 • Robert Louis Stevenson
... spiritus bonorum malorumque custos, et Observator, et quemadmodum nos illum tractamus, ita et ille ...
— The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 - With Translations and Index for the Series • Joseph Addison and Richard Steele |
