Marian Pilgrimage - Our Lady in the Wood at Epworth

The Pilgrimage now travels to the Carthusian house of Our Lady in the Wood in the Isle of Axholme in north west Lincolnshire.   

The Isle of Axholme in 1626 before Vermuyden’s drainage scheme

The site of the priory is marked. south east of Epworth

Image:North Lincolnshire Museum

 

The site of the priory today

 Image: Facebook - Mike Garrett

Details of recent archaeological surveys of the site, now represented by today Low Melwood Farm can be accessed at Isle of Axholme Community Group - All Things Allowed

My post from last year with its links to previous ones, notably that from 2020, can be seen at Marian pilgrimage - Our Lady in the Wood at Epworth

In last year’s note I drew attention to the death at the priory of Edmund of Langley, first Duke of York, in 1402. I realise I failed to point out that the Duke held the manor and chase of Hatfield, which lay just to the west in Yorkshire. He could therefore have been on a local pilgrimage at the time, or maybe that sensing his death was imminent he asked to be transferred there so as to die surrounded by the prayers of the Carthusians.

I see that my 2020 post about the foundation or the house and its endowment has lost the image I included of Thomas Mowbray. It is, I think, the only contemporary likeness of him that survives, and I am reposting it below. 

King Richard II appoints Thomas Mowbray as Earl Marshal in 1385-6. He is holding the distinctive baton of his new office.

From a manuscript of circa 1390

Image: Wikipedia 

May Our Lady in the Wood intercede for us and our intentions 

Jesu mercy, Mary pray