[139] Ibid. 178.
[140] Ibid. ii. 98.
[141] Ibid. 356.
[142] Other bequests to recluses occur in the will of Henry II., to the recluses (incluses) of Jerusalem, England, and Normandy.
[143] Sussex Archæol. Coll., i. p. 174.
[144] Blomfield’s “Norfolk,” ii. pp. 347-8. See also the bequests to the Norwich recluses, infra.
[145] Stow’s Chronicle, p. 559.
[146] In the “Ancren Riewle,” p. 129, we read, “Who can with more facility commit sin than the false recluse?”
[147] Owen and Blakeway’s “History of Shrewsbury.”
[148] “Rogerus, &c., delecto in Christo filio Roberto de Worthin, cap. salutem, &c. Precipue devotionis affectum, quem ad serviendum Deo in reclusorio juxta capellam Sancti Joh. Babtiste in civitate Coventriensi constructo, et spretis mundi deliciis et ipsius vagis discurribus contemptis, habere te asseres, propensius intuentes, ac volentes te, consideratione nobilis domine, domine Isabelle Regine Anglie nobis pro te supplicante in hujus laudabili proposito confovere, ut in prefato reclusorio morari possis, et recludi et vitam tuam in eodam ducere in tui laudibus Redemptoris, licentiam tibi quantum in nobis est concedi per presentes, quibus sigillum nostrum duximus apponendum. Dat apud Heywood, 5 Kal. Dec. M.D. A.D. MCCCLXII, et consecrationis nostræ tricessimo sexto.”—Dugdale’s Warwickshire, 2nd Edit., p. 193.