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Dear medieval-religionists:
One of my students is trying to dig up what she can about an anchoress who
made a petition to Chancery about 1440-1442. Her name was variously rendered
Iseult/Isolde/Isot, she was the widow of Richard of Heaton, and had become
“an ancrys closeyd at Qwalley in the counte of Lancaster” (i.e. at Whalley,
Lancs.). Her brother was Alexander of Standish. Her petition to Chancery
involved a dispute over the marriage of her oldest son and doesn’t directly
involve her religious life, other than that she argues that she needs the
Chancellor’s help because, as an anchoress, she cannot take her case
properly to the common law. Has anyone come across her in any other context?
Thanks,
Shannon McSheffrey
Department of History, LB-601
Concordia University, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W.
Montreal, Quebec CANADA H3G 1M8
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http://alcor.concordia.ca/~shannon
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