d in Christ
to abstain from repeating immoral stories. Some of the canons who had
made themselves notorious for quarrelling and caballing were to be
debarred from promotion, and were commended to the Prior and Subprior
for punishment.

In 1309 Simon Constable, a refractory canon of Bridlington, was sent to
Guisborough to undergo a course of penance, change of residence being
always considered to give an excellent opportunity for thorough reform.
However, in this case no good seems to have resulted, for about five
years later he was sent back to Bridlington with a worse character than
before, and, besides much prayer and humiliation, he was to receive a
_disciplina_ every Friday at the hands of the Prior. This made no
improvement in his conduct, for in 1321 his behaviour brought him
another penance and still greater severity. A few years after this the
Archbishop seems to have reproached the community for the conduct of
this unruly brother, which was scarcely fair. The last vision of Simon
Constable shows him to be as impenitent as ever, and the Archbishop
makes the awful threat that, if he does not reform at once, he will be
put in a more confined place than he has ever been in before! Can this
suggest that the wicked canon was to be bricked up alive?

These internal troubles were not, however, generally known to the
outside world, but the unfaltering searchlight of the records falls upon
such great folk as Peter de Mauley, fifth Baron Mulgrave, whose castle
at Mulgrave, near Whitby, is mentioned elsewhere; Lucy de Thweng, wife
of Sir William le Latimer; Sir Nicholas de Meynyl; and Katherine, wife
of Sir John Dentorp, whose conduct merely reflected the morals of
medieval times. It was, indeed, no uncommon event for the congregation
to hear some high-born culprit confessing his sins as he walked barefoot
and scantily clothed in the procession in York Minster. An exceedingly
beautiful crucifix of copper, richly gilded, was discovered during the
early part of last century, when some men were digging amongst the
foundations of an old building in Commondale. There seems little doubt
that this was a cell or chapel belonging to the monastery, for the
crucifix bears the date 1119, the year of the founding of Guisborough
Priory. Another metal crucifix, probably belonging to the thirteenth
century, was discovered at Ingleby Arncliffe. It was beautifully inlaid
with brilliant white, green, red, and blue enamels, and the figure of