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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 August 2024
It is not often recognised that members of Orders devoted to such activities as that of preaching were sometimes allowed to shut themselves up in anchorholds and to give themselves entirely to contemplation and to the work of their hands. But this was in fact the case in the later middle ages; and we find a pleasant example of it at the Dominican Priory of Newcastle-on-Tyne at the beginning of the fifteenth century in the person of Brother John Lacy.
1 The Manuscript is now in the possession of St John's College, Oxford (MS. 94), and it is to the librarian that we are indebted for permission to reproduce the picture of the recluse taken from the MS.
2 In the catalogue of a library belonging to Henry Savile of Banks, Yorks, there is listed a book compiled by John Lacy, ‘anchorite of the Order of Preachers at Newcastle’ (British Museum Adds. 35213 no. 60). And it occurs again in other lists (British Museum MS. Harl. 1879 no. 170).
3 Lord Scroop in 1415 left 13s. 4d. to the Recluse at Newcastle Priory (Foedera IX p. 272). The Mayor, Roger Thornton, who died in 1429, left something also to the ‘anker of Newcastle’. And cf. Durham Seals Nos. 648 and 649, and Welford, History of Newcastle.
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