Isabel Thwaites was an orphan and had been placed under the guardianship of the Abbess of a nunnery at Appleton, near York. |
And when it came to details, he was known to be worse than a fussy abbess running a nunnery. |
Release from the nunnery can sometimes prove to be provisional, and now she has immured herself in another cloister. |
There have of course been assumptions, that had she lived within a nunnery, this could never have happened. |
The Taliban attack in Kabul would have taken place even if she was sitting morosely alone in a nunnery dressed in black and eating nettles. |
Rosamond died in or about 1176 and was buried in the nunnery church of Godstow before the high altar. |