Possible Clues:

• Perhaps it's cold outside before getting in shelter
• Shut up in one way before being put in the earth
• Being cut off from the world lose direct involvement
• Insulated
• Like many a monastery, so derelict after Reformation
• Reclusive elector's ID defective
• Sheltered from outside society
• Sheltered girl appearing in court before duke
• Like some nuns
• Closed with rite in unusual order, like monks in monastery