The fourth family head, Masayoshi NITTA was deprived of an office of gokenin because of a charge that he became a priest without prior consent of the bakufu during his stay in Kyoto as the Kyoto obanyaku (a job to guard Kyoto).
4代の新田政義は、京都大番役での上京中に幕府に無断で出家した罪で御家人役を剥奪される。