custos

A warden.

[…] they were commytted to prison & put out of theyr offyces & the Constable of the Towre made custos of the citye.

Mr. Tharp, the Custos of the parish, and several other gentlement, accompanied the corps.

A monastic superior, who, under the general of his order, has the direction of all the religious houses of the same fraternity in a given district, called a custody of the order.

In older forms of musical notation, an indication, at the end of a line of music, of the first note of the next line.