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# Robin Hood - The Facts and the Fiction

The Facts and the Fiction

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- [# Home Page](https://robinhoodlegend.com/) - Hundreds of pages covering the legend of Robin Hood. Includes extensive Research into the facts behind this famous outlaw.
- [Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/reliq-anci-eng-poe/)
- [Guye of Gisborne](https://robinhoodlegend.com/gu-o-gis-2/)
- [Robin Hood and the Monk](https://robinhoodlegend.com/robi-ho-an-th-mon/) - The ballad Robin Hood and the Monk is thought to be the oldest surviving tale of Robin Hood. It is preserved in Cambridge University Library (MS. Ff. 5. 48, fols. 128v-135v), and a fragment also survives in the Bagford Ballads which were in the British Museum, but are now in the British Library (see, The
- [Robin Hood and the Potter](https://robinhoodlegend.com/rob-ho-an-th-pot/) - Like the other early ballads, the 324 line Robin Hood and the Potter (the title supplied by Joseph Ritson, the first to publish it in 1795) cannot be given a precise date for its composition (see also, The Early Ballads, Robin Hood and the Potter (Joseph Ritson), and The Rhymes of Robin Hood 10). It
- [Robin Hood's Death](https://robinhoodlegend.com/rob-ho-dea/) - This ballad survives in the British Library (Additional MS. 27, 879, fols. 9-10) and was first printed by Hales and Furnivall, in their Bishop Percy’s Folio Manuscript, where it is given the title Robin Hoode his death by the unknown seventeenth-century scribe (see also, Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne). As Dobson and Taylor tell
- [Feudal Land Tenure](https://robinhoodlegend.com/feu-lan-ten/) - A system by which land was held by tenants from lords. As developed in medieval England and France, the king was lord paramount with numerous levels of lesser lords down to the occupying tenant. Tenures were divided into free and unfree. Of the free tenures, the first was tenure in chivalry, principally grand sergeanty and knight service. The former obliged the tenant to perform some honourable and
- [The Percy Chartulary](https://robinhoodlegend.com/th-per-chart-857/)
- [The Gest of Robin Hood](https://robinhoodlegend.com/the-ges-o-rob-ho/) - Countless words have been written about the Gest, Lytell Geste, or Merry Geste of Robin Hood. It is widely accepted that it is a compilation of earlier tales, put together by a person (or persons) unknown. Like the other early ballads, the Gest it is in essence, an entertainment, but who did they entertain? J.
- [Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne](https://robinhoodlegend.com/robi-ho-a-gu-o-gis/) - This ballad introduces another character into the Robin Hood legend: Guy of Gisborne (see, The Early Ballads). It survives in the British Library (additional MS. 27, 879, fos. 129r-130v) and was correctly edited by Hales and Furnivall, in their Bishop Percy’s Folio Manuscript, where it is given the title, Guye of Gisborne, by the unknown seventeenth-century
- [Introduction](https://robinhoodlegend.com/intro2/) - The legend of Robin Hood has been in circulation for more than six hundred years. It has become the subject of decades of serious research that has produced countless books, papers, and articles. New information has been brought to light, but the question of Robin’s existence continues to frustrate scholars and historians. The earliest surviving
- [The Early Ballads Versus Reality](https://robinhoodlegend.com/the-earl-ball-vers-real/) - The Gest of Robin Hood Robin Hood and the Monk Robin Hood and the Potter Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne Robin Hood's Death BACK TO THE REAL ROBIN HOOD
- [The Real Robin Hood (revised, June, 2023)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/real-robin-hood/) - Introduction The Early Ballads Versus Reality The Search for the Real Robin Hood Conclusions
- [Robin Hood's Bow](https://robinhoodlegend.com/robin-hoods-bow/) - Posted by Robert Fortunaso, 21/11/2024. There is a bow on display at Renishaw Hall, Derbyshire, along with a document of authenticity which states that the bow belonged to Robin Hood. The document reads: ‘Robin Hood’s bow was given to Mr. Bartlet by the family at Kirklees Hall in Yorkshire which formerly was a Nunnery, a Posted by Robert Fortunaso, 21/11/2024. There is a bow on display at Renishaw Hall, Derbyshire, along with a document of authenticity which states that the bow belonged to Robin Hood. The document reads: ‘Robin Hood’s bow was given to Mr. Bartlet by the family at Kirklees Hall in Yorkshire which formerly was a Nunnery, a Posted by Robert Fortunaso, 21/11/2024. There is a bow on display at Renishaw Hall, Derbyshire, along with a document of authenticity which states that the bow belonged to Robin Hood. The document reads: ‘Robin Hood’s bow was given to Mr. Bartlet by the family at Kirklees Hall in Yorkshire which formerly was a Nunnery, a
- [Little John's Bow Found](https://robinhoodlegend.com/lit-jo-bo-fo/) - Posted by Robert Fortunaso, 26/7/2023 Revised, 13/12/23 Little John's Bow Update, 18/2/25 Little John’s supposed bow has been returned to Cannon Hall, a donation by James Fraser in 2022. James is a descendant of the Spencer-Stanhope family who owned the Hall until the 1950’s. The bow has now been conserved and was on display
- [Little John's Bow Update](https://robinhoodlegend.com/litt-joh-bo-upda/) - Posted by Robert Fortunaso, 18/2/2025 Thanks to Barnsley Museums I have kindly been informed that Little John's bow will be on permanent display at the Cannon Hall Museum, when the hall reopens in April. Thanks also to the curator for giving permission to display the images below. The bow with case. Col Naylor
- [Other Tales](https://robinhoodlegend.com/other-tales/) - There are other medieval tales that contain some or many of the elements that are prominent in the early ballads of Robin Hood. The greenwood, outlawry, yeomanry, pitted battle, beheading, the merry men, skill in archery, pursuit by the sheriff, the meeting/reconciliation with the king, even the outlaw's death by bleeding is not unique, as
- [Rauf Coilyear](https://robinhoodlegend.com/ra-coil/) - BACK TO OTHER TALES
- [King Edward IV and the Tanner of Tamworth](https://robinhoodlegend.com/ki-ed-iv-a-th-tan-o-tam/) - BACK TO OTHER TALES
- [King Edward and the Shepherd](https://robinhoodlegend.com/ki-ed-a-th-sheph/) - BACK TO OTHER TALES
- [King Edward and the Hermit](https://robinhoodlegend.com/kin-edwa-a-th-her/) - BACK TO OTHER TALES
- [John the Reeve](https://robinhoodlegend.com/joh-d-ree/) - BACK TO OTHER TALES
- [The King and the Miller](https://robinhoodlegend.com/th-kin-a-th-mil/) - BACK TO OTHER TALES
- [The King and the Barker](https://robinhoodlegend.com/th-kin-nd-t-bark/) - BACK TO OTHER TALES
- [Eustace the Monk - A Chronological Summary of the Romance](https://robinhoodlegend.com/eus-th-mo-a-chro-sum-rom/) - Posted by Robert Fortunaso on 6/11/24 1. The opening lines of the Romance tell us that Eustace the Monk goes to the Benedictine monastery of Saint-Samer in the Boulonnais region, where he becomes a black monk. He journeys to Toledo to learn necromancy and becomes proficient in sorcery. We are told that he spent the winter and
- [Eustace the Monk - A New Translation of the Romance](https://robinhoodlegend.com/eus-th-mo-ne-tr-rom/) - Posted by Robert Fortunaso on 6/11/2024 Eustace the Monk (1170?-1217) was an outlaw, a sea captain and a pirate, and in his earlier days, a Benedictine monk. Some of his adventures are similar to those found in a Gest of Robin Hood and Robin Hood and the Potter. He was born in the Boulonnais region of northern France,
- [The Real Robin Hood 2](https://robinhoodlegend.com/real-robin-hood-2/) - . Thomas of Muskham's Outlaw Revised, 5th August 2024 I have found that E. M. Poynton mentions William fitz Ralph as the founder of Dale Abbey. He was the sheriff of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, from Easter 1170 to Michaelmas 1177. William was the father of Matilda de Salicosa Mara, who is named by Thomas
- [William fitz Ralph](https://robinhoodlegend.com/will-fit-ral/)
- [Robin Hood's Bay Letter](https://robinhoodlegend.com/robin-hoods-bay-letter/) - Revised, 21/3/24 The discovery of ‘robin oeds bay’ in this letter from Male in Flanders has caused controversy as it possibly contains the first mention of Robin Hood. It is written in French and dated the first of March, but the year is not revealed. It was sent to Edward II or Edward III by
- [The Place-Names of the North Riding of Yorkshire](https://robinhoodlegend.com/th-pla-nam-nor-rid-yor/)
- [The Itinerary of John Leland](https://robinhoodlegend.com/itiner-ohn-lel/)
- [Cartularium Abbathiae de Whiteby](https://robinhoodlegend.com/cartul-abbath-d-whit/)
- [Cartularium Abbathiae de Whiteby 2](https://robinhoodlegend.com/cartul-abbae-de-whit-2/)
- [The History of Whitby and of Whitby Abbey](https://robinhoodlegend.com/th-his-whit-whitb-abb/)
- [Robin Hoods Fishing](https://robinhoodlegend.com/robi-ho-fis/)
- [The History of the Worthies of England](https://robinhoodlegend.com/th-hi-th-wor-o-eng/)
- [England’s Gazetteer; or, An Accurate Description of all the Cities, Towns, and Villages of the Kingdom](https://robinhoodlegend.com/eng-gaz-accur-des-cit-to-vill/)
- [Robin Hood: a collection of poems, songs, and ballads relative to that celebrated English outlaw 1](https://robinhoodlegend.com/rob-ho-coll-poe-son-ball-rel-eng/)
- [Robin Hood: a collection of poems, songs, and ballads relative to that celebrated English outlaw 2](https://robinhoodlegend.com/robi-ho-coll-p-so-bal-rel-to-out/)
- [Robert Hod Isle of Ely](https://robinhoodlegend.com/robert-hod-cambridge/) - The Dictum of Kenilworth (issued 31 October, 1266) established the terms of the rebel supporters of Simon de Montfort for ending their resistance against Henry III. It was offered to the rebels at Kenilworth Castle, where they were holding out. One main point was their right to buy back, or pay a fine, for their confiscated
- [Little John's Grave Stones](https://robinhoodlegend.com/littl-joh-gra-sto/) - POSTED 3/12/23 1. Little John’s tombstone was mentioned by Roger Dodsworth in 1619: ‘Robert Lockseley, born in Bradfeild parish in Halumshire, wounded his stepfather to death att plough, fledd into the woodes, and was releived by his mother till he was discovered. Then he came to Clifton super Calder, and came acquainted with little John,
- [Little John and Hathersage](https://robinhoodlegend.com/lit-jo-an-hather/) - Posted 27/11/23 Little John is universally known as Robin Hood’s faithful companion and right-hand man. According to tradition, he was born in the village of Hathersage, Derbyshire, but this is not mentioned in the Robin Hood legend. In A Gest of Robyn Hode, Little John (in the guise of 'Reynolde Grenelefe') tells the sheriff of Nottingham
- [Northern Lancashire and Bowland](https://robinhoodlegend.com/northern-lancashire-bowland/) - In fytte one of the Gest, Robin's men waylay the knight in Barnsdale. His troubles originate with his son (stanza 53): He slewe a knyght of Lancaster And a squyer bolde In fytte two the knight returns home to 'Verysdale', which Holt has identified as Wyresdale to the west of the Forest of Bowland.(1) In
- [Robin Hood's Well](https://robinhoodlegend.com/robin-hoods-well/) - Robin Hood's Well was first recorded by local antiquary Roger Dodsworth as 'Robbinhood-well' in 1622, but the above well-house in the form of a rustic dome was designed by Sir John Vanbrugh for the Earl of Carlisle in the early eighteenth century. It stands in a lay-by on the south bound side of the A1,
- [The Stone of Robert Hode 2](https://robinhoodlegend.com/monkbretton-priory-2/) - After his coronation, Henry VII left Doncaster with a great attendance of noblemen and gentlemen, and was met by the earl of Northumberland and a right great and noble company on Barnsdale, 'a litill beyonde Robyn Haddez-ston'.(South Yorkshire, Vol II, p. 487) Hunter came to the conclusion that this was a reference to Robin Hood's
- [The Stone of Robert Hode](https://robinhoodlegend.com/monkbretton-priory/) - The Chartulary of Monkbretton Priory (extract) Wrangbrook (315) Grant by John Jubbe of Wrangbrook and Richard Jubbe of Upton to John Pullene of Wrangbrook of a tenement in Wrangbrook built on as it lies between the cottage of the nuns of Hampole on the west and the land of Peter de la Hay on the
- [Bishop's Tree](https://robinhoodlegend.com/robin-hood-bishop-hereford/) - 'In Skelbrooke Park stood an immense tree which has now disappeared, though the ground on which it stood is still called 'Bishop's Tree Root.' Tradition says that the Bishop of Hereford with a numerous train of attendants, when travelling to York came upon some seeming peasants who were roasting venison on the King's highway. In
- [The Chapel at Skelbrooke 2](https://robinhoodlegend.com/chapel-skelbrooke-2/) - The entrance to the church, with the well worn coat of arms above the doorway, which is of the Butler family of Skelbrooke or Monk Bretton Priory. A close-up reveals an angel holding a shield, the coat of arms that has the three covered cups, (barely visible) moved from the western front to the present position
- [The Chapel at Skelbrooke](https://robinhoodlegend.com/chapel-skelbrooke/) - The chapel at Skelbrooke has an uncertain history. According to the Yorkshire Archaeological Journal it was built sometime between 1180 and 1220, dedicated to St Michael, and in the patronage of St Mary Magdalen of Monk Bretton, suggesting this was the chapel of Mary Magdalen made by Robin which is mentioned in the closing versus
- [Wentbridge](https://robinhoodlegend.com/wentbridge/) - Wentbridge in the valley of the Went, developed as a staging post complete with inns and a hospital. In 1339 the fellows of Merton College, Oxford, stayed there on their way north to attend to their Northumbrian manors. By the early seventeenth century there were at least four inns, one of which acquired an evil
- [The Sayles 2](https://robinhoodlegend.com/saylis-2/) - The view near the bridge over the river Went that carried all the A1 traffic prior to the construction of the viaduct in the 1960s, which carries the trunk road. The viaduct can be seen in the background to the east, and Sayles Plantation lies beyond the southern end, to the right (obscured by trees). .
- [The Sayles](https://robinhoodlegend.com/saylis/) - Joseph Hunter is credited with identifying 'the Saylis' as recorded in the Gest, with Sayles, a small and obscure tenancy of the late medieval manor of Pontefract, which contributed towards the feudal aid granted to Edward III in 1346-7 for the knighting of his eldest son, the Black Prince, when Richard son of Adam de Sayles
- [Barnsdale](https://robinhoodlegend.com/barnsdale/) - Barnsdale owes most of its prominence to the Robin Hood legend. It is a rather obscure and small area, that never appears to have had fixed boundaries,
- [Barnsdale and Sherwood 2](https://robinhoodlegend.com/barnsdale-sherwood-2/)
- [Barnsdale 3](https://robinhoodlegend.com/barnsdale-3/)
- [Little John's Gravestone](https://robinhoodlegend.com/lit-jo-grav/) - POSTED 3/12/23 There is a stone in the porch of Hathersage Church (St. Michael and All Angels), which is thought to be part of Little John’s original gravestone. J. Charles Cox (Notes on the Churches of Derbyshire, volume two, published in 1877) informs us that: ‘One fragment, which was found under the flooring of the
- [Who was Little John](https://robinhoodlegend.com/who-litt-joh/) - Little John is first mentioned by the chronicler Andrew of Wyntoun in about 1420, some forty years after the first mention of Robin Hood
- [Let These Stones Live, Martin F. H. Hulbert](https://robinhoodlegend.com/le-stones-li-mar-hul/)
- [Notes on the Churches of Derbyshire, J. Charles Cox](https://robinhoodlegend.com/no-churc-derb-char-co/)
- [The Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, J. W. Walker](https://robinhoodlegend.com/th-yor-arch-jo-wal/)
- [Peak Scenery or the Derbyshire Tourist, E. Rhodes](https://robinhoodlegend.com/pe-sce-derb-tou-rho/)
- [The Peak and the Plain, Spencer T. Hall](https://robinhoodlegend.com/pe-an-th-pla-spe-hal/)
- [The Truth About Robin Hood, P. Valentine Harris](https://robinhoodlegend.com/tru-ab-rob-ho-val-har/)
- [An Historical Essay on the Dress of the Ancient and Modern Irish, Joseph C. Walker](https://robinhoodlegend.com/hist-ess-dre-anc-mod-ir-joc-wa/)
- [The Reliquary Quarterly Archaeological Journal and Review, William Bemrose junior](https://robinhoodlegend.com/rel-quar-arc-jou-rev-bem-ju/)
- [Hallamshire, Joseph Hunter](https://robinhoodlegend.com/halla-jo-hun/)
- [Robin Hood (1853 edition), Joseph Ritson](https://robinhoodlegend.com/rob-ho-jos-rits/)
- [The True History of Robin Hood, J. W. Walker](https://robinhoodlegend.com/tru-hist-robi-ho-wal/)
- [Yorkshire Church Notes 2, Roger Dodsworth](https://robinhoodlegend.com/yor-churc-not-2-ro-dod/)
- [Annals of a Yorkshire House, A. M. W. Stirling](https://robinhoodlegend.com/an-york-hou-stir/)
- [Annals of a Yorkshire House 2, A. M. W. Stirling](https://robinhoodlegend.com/anna-yor-ho-2-stir/)
- [Anecdotes of Archery, E. Hargrove](https://robinhoodlegend.com/anec-arc-har/)
- [The Chronicle of Ireland, Meredith Hanmer](https://robinhoodlegend.com/chron-irel-mer-han/)
- [Yorkshire Church Notes, Roger Dodsworth](https://robinhoodlegend.com/yor-chu-not-roge-dod/)
- [A View of the Present State of Derbyshire, James Pilkington](https://robinhoodlegend.com/vie-pre-sta-der-jam-pil/)
- [Catalogue of the Ashmole Manuscripts](https://robinhoodlegend.com/cata-ashmo-manu/)
- [The Search for the Real Robin Hood](https://robinhoodlegend.com/th-searc-f-th-rel-rob-ho/) - The reverend Joseph Hunter was the first to examine historic records in an attempt to find the real Robin Hood. His theories were continued and expanded upon by J. B. Walker, P. V. Harris, and J. Bellamy (see, The Many Robin Hoods 7). A more recent attempt to identify Robin has been made by David
- [The British Army: Its Origin, Progress, and Equipment](https://robinhoodlegend.com/th-br-ar-it-ori-pro-an-equ/)
- [Robin Hood’s Grave 6](https://robinhoodlegend.com/robin-hoods-grave-6/) - Joseph Hunter mentions the Stainton (or Staynton) family of Woolley in his South Yorkshire of 1831. He tells us of an indenture witnessing that Hugh de Tutehill had married Joan, formerly the wife of John de Staynton, and had in his possession the four daughters and heirs of the said John, the elder of them being
- [Hallamshire, Joseph Hunter](https://robinhoodlegend.com/hall-jos-hun/)
- [Percy Chartulary](https://robinhoodlegend.com/percy-cartulary/) - Surtees Society Vol 117 Percy Cartulary p27 1230-40? XLIV. Sciant...ego Johannes filius Roberti de Whitewell...concessi...Ricardo Kalle...unum toftum in villa de Whitewell quod jacet inter toftum quod Bartholomeus Romanus tenuit et terram quam Robertus Camerarius tenuit, et duas acras terre in campsis ejusdem ville, videlicet, unam acram terre que jacet inter terram quam Robertus Hode tenuit
- [The Percy Chartulary 4](https://robinhoodlegend.com/the-pe-chart-4/)
- [The Percy Chartulary 3](https://robinhoodlegend.com/th-per-cha-3/)
- [The Percy Chartulary 2](https://robinhoodlegend.com/th-per-cha-2/)
- [Annesley Castle](https://robinhoodlegend.com/annesley-castle/) - Annesley Castle, also recorded in historical documents as Anelegh, is a scheduled monument situated nine miles north of Nottingham, in the district of Ashfield. It was a motte and bailey castle, which meant that it was constructed using the oldest methods of fortification, the earthwork, and in all save a few rare instances was without any stone
- [Martin F. H. Hulbert, Let These Stones Live](https://robinhoodlegend.com/mar-hul-th-sto-li/)
- [Robin Hood’s Grave](https://robinhoodlegend.com/robin-hoods-grave/) - The traditional site of Robin Hood’s grave at Kirklees estate in Yorkshire, has been the subject of controversy since the sixteenth century. There are doubts about it's authenticity, and over the centuries there have been conflicting accounts regarding the contents of the gravesite. There are two stones associated with it: the slab with the cross,
- [Conclusions](https://robinhoodlegend.com/conclu/) - It is possible that there was a man named Robert/Robin Hood that inspired the legend, but he cannot be identified. One thing is certain, the legend evolved, but how it began is a mystery. The earliest surviving ballads are thought to be no earlier than the fifteenth century, and they may not reveal the original
- [Updates](https://robinhoodlegend.com/updates/) - 1. There is a recent discovery of a Robin Hood quotation. It is item no. 1(m) in Cambridge University Library MS Ii.6.26. The first sentence is located on the bottom of folio 66r, while the second one is on folio 66v. The title of the item is 'A dialogue as hit were of a wyse man
- [Robert of Linton](https://robinhoodlegend.com/robert-of-linton/) - Curia Regis Rolls 1225-1226 p297 Curia Regis Roll 86 m 2 Trinity Term, 8 Henry III (1224) 1483 Ebor - Robertus de Percy optulit se iiij. die versus Henricum de Percy Hugonem de Lillay Ricardum de Littlington' Robertum de Plumton' Matheum de Bram, Nigellum Picernam, Reinbaldum de Montibus Baldewinum de Stoche Robertum de Beringrant
- [Curia Regis Rolls 68](https://robinhoodlegend.com/curia-regis-rolls-68/) - Curia Regis Rolls 68 Vol VI 1210-1212 (m2) Michaelmas 12 John p56 Ebor - Walterus Aleman Ricardus de Tange Evrardus de Karlton Radulfus de Bramhop Walterus de Stockeld Ricardus de Brertun Patricius de Berewich Ricardus de Radeclive Ricardus Dagun Hugo filius Ipoliti Willelmus de Stodley, juratores inter Robertum filium Walteri petentem
- [Robert Hod of Linton](https://robinhoodlegend.com/robert-hod-chirograph/)
- [Dean and Chapter](https://robinhoodlegend.com/dean-chapter/) - Curia Regis Roll 79 1221 Ebor'-Willelmus de Percy optulit se quarto die versus magistrum Rogerum de Insula decanum Ebor' de placito quare tenuit placitum in curia Christianitatis de laico feodo ipsius Willelmi in Linton' et in Siclinghal' contra etc, et versus magistrum hospitalis Sancti Leonardi de Eboraco de placito quare secutus fuit placitum etc; et
- [Guide 2](https://robinhoodlegend.com/guide-2/) - Robert Hode c. 1240s Percy Cartulary, Yorkshire, mention of land held Robert Hudi c. 1240's Percy Cartulary, Yorkshire, mention of land held Robert Hod (of Linton) 1241/42 Pipe Rolls, Yorkshire, debt in Archis Cirographorum Robert Hode 1243 Somerset Plea Rolls, flees, Somerset, outlawed after a murder is committed at Perton Robert
- [Robin Hood, the Definitive Guide, by Robert Lynley](https://robinhoodlegend.com/guide/) - Robert de Huda 1191 -1197 Pipe Rolls (7 consecutive entries) case of Morte de Ancestor Robert de Hodelme 1199 Curia Regis, had deserted Henry ll Robert Hudde 1200 Blythe Cartulary- swearing fealty Robert Hod 1206 Lincoln Assize Roll-disagreement between whose vassal he was Robert Hod c.1220-1230 Yorkshire Deeds, witness to land deed at Follifoot near
- [Ivo of Wetherby](https://robinhoodlegend.com/ivo-wetherby/) - Rolls of the Justices in Eyre for Yorkshire 1218-1219 Seldon Society vol 56 p284 Adhuc de Clarehou (At York) Ivo of Wetherby (Ivo de Werreby) appealed Robert of Linton (Robertum de Linton) of the peace of the lord king and wounding and the robbery of 10 marks. Ivo has not come and
- [The Rhymes of Robin Hood 9](https://robinhoodlegend.com/rhymes-robin-hood-9/) - Printed Sources for the Tales of Robin Hood c.1510 'A lyttel geste, of Robyn Hode and his meyne, and of the proude sheryfe of Notyngham'. Printed by Wynkyn de Worde (London). A unique copy survives at the Library of the University of Cambridge, Sel. 5. 18. The best editions of this text are those by Ritson, Gutch, Child
- [The Sloane Manuscript 'Life' of Robin Hood](https://robinhoodlegend.com/slo-m-li-of-in-ho/) - The British Library contains many items that were collected by Hans Sloane which were formerly in the British Museum; among them is the earliest known prose ‘life’ of Robin Hood (Sloane MS 780 ff. 46-48 b Robin Hood Memoir of: 17th cent.) It appears in a manuscript along with others, which make up of a
- [The Rhymes of Robin Hood 5 (Joseph Ritson)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/rhymes-robin-hood-5/) - CONTENTS. PART THE FIRST. I. A Lytell Geste of Robyn Hode .................................................................. 1 II. Robin Hood and the Potter ..................................................................... 60 III. Robin Hood and the Beggar .................................................................... 71 IV. Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne * .......................................................... 83 V. A True Tale of Robin Hood .................................................................... 91 PART THE SECOND. I. Robin Hoods birth, breeding, &c. .............................................................. 107 II. Robin Hoods Progress to
- [The Rhymes of Robin Hood 3 (Percy Folio)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/rhymes-robin-hood-3/) - CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME ROBIN HOOD, A BEGGAR, AND THE THREE SQUIRES.......................................13 ROBIN HOOD AND THE BUTCHER ................................................................ 19 ROBINE HOOD AND FRYER TUCKE ............................................................... 26 ROBIN HOOD AND THE PINDAR OF WAKEFIELD ............................................ 32 ROBIN HOODE AND QUENE KATHERINE ...................................................... 37 LITTLE JOHN, THE BEGGAR, AND THE THREE PALMERS ................................. 47 ROBIN HOODE HIS DEATH ........................................................................... 50 CONTENTS
- [The Early Ballads](https://robinhoodlegend.com/early-ballads/) - Robin Hood and the Monk This ballad was found in a manuscript collection written about 1450, it is believed to be the oldest surviving written ballad of Robin Hood. It begins with Robin and Little John in the greenwood, they argue then go their separate ways; Robin goes to Saint Mary's Church in Nottingham, Little
- [Thomas of Muskham's Outlaw (posted 13/1/2023)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/thom-musk-out/) - Francis Peck (1692-1743), Robin Whood Turned Hermit. This ballad has survived in a single manuscript in a collection of ballads dated 1735, made by the Stamford priest and antiquary, Francis Peck (British Library, Add MS 28638). It is unique and was never included in the anthologies of Percy, Ritson, Gutch or Child. It cannot be described as
- [The Early Ballads 3](https://robinhoodlegend.com/early-ballads-3/) - A Lytell Geste of Robyn Hode The Gest begins with Robin being introduced as a yeoman who is proud and courteous. He is leaning against a tree in Bernesdale, and he tells Little John, William Scarlok, and Much the Miller's son, to find him a guest for dinner, his instructions are: And walke up to
- [Video Games of Robin Hood](https://robinhoodlegend.com/video-games/) - Here is a list of video games of Robin Hood.
- [Barnsdale and Sherwood](https://robinhoodlegend.com/barnsdale-and-sherwood/) - Robin Hood has been associated with two different regions from an early date; Barnsdale in South Yorkshire, and Sherwood in Nottinghamshire.
- [Adam Bell, Clim of the Clough, and William of Cloudesly](https://robinhoodlegend.com/adam-bell-clim-clough-william-cloudesly/) - Adam Bell, Clim of the Clough, & William of Cloudesly are other famous 'Yemen of the north country', the three Inglewood outlaws are legendary like Robin Hood
- [Contact Form](https://robinhoodlegend.com/questions-comments/) - If you have any questions about Robin Hood please contact me. . Robert Fortunaso
- [Two Charters Issued to Kirklees Priory](https://robinhoodlegend.com/char-issu-kirk-prior/)
- [Ten Robin Hood Facts](https://robinhoodlegend.com/ten-robin-hood-facts/) - 1. No-one has been able to prove that Robin Hood existed. 2. The earliest certain mention of England's greatest outlaw hero is found in the B text of William Langland's Piers Plowman, dated to about 1377; there is a similar mention in the C text, dated to about 1393. 〉 3. Nearly all that is known
- [Robin Hood Links](https://robinhoodlegend.com/robin-hood-links/) - The World Wide Robin Hood Society. This website is a group effort and offers good overall information and promotion of Nottingham. Legends - The Robin Hood Pages. A good general work on the legend. Robin Hood - Bold Outlaw of Barnsdale and Sherwood. Allen Wright's site is well researched and offers a good range of topics. The Robin Hood
- [Fulk Fitz Warin](https://robinhoodlegend.com/ful-fit-war-in/) - The Anglo-Norman romance Fouke le Fitz Waryn (or Fulk fitz Warin in the anglicized form) has been described as a ‘weird mixture of accurate information, plausible stories that lack conformation, and magnificent flights of pure imagination’. The word fitz was used to distinguish a son from his father, literally meaning ‘son of’. There can be
- [Joannis Lelandi Antiquarii de Rebus Britannicis Collectanea](https://robinhoodlegend.com/joa-leil-ant-de-re-brit-coll/)
- [The Legend 3](https://robinhoodlegend.com/the-legend-3/) - Medieval life would not have been easy, rubbish and human waste were simply thrown out of windows onto the streets, and there were frequent outbreaks of typhoid and yellow fever. The workers earned little, and they had to pay rent to their landlords and taxes to the crown. It is easy to understand how tales of
- [Robin in Music and Literature](https://robinhoodlegend.com/robin-music-literature/) - From the sixteenth century onwards, 'Robin' appears in song. Whether it be Gentle Robin, Jolly Robin,(1) Bonny Sweet Robin, or Robin Hood, the reference can be to the famous outlaw, or a favourite bird or flower, or someone else. There may be some influence from the May Games,(2) perhaps a faint echo of the earlier Robin and
- [Robin Goodfellow](https://robinhoodlegend.com/robi-godfello/) - Robin Goodfellow is also known as Puck, or a Hobgoblin. In folklore, a Hobgoblin refers to tiny mischevious creatures that look like humans. They reside in human dwellings but are active only when humans are sleeping, doing menial work around the household and not expecting anything else other than food for their work. Hobgoblin, a
- [Puck](https://robinhoodlegend.com/puc143/) - In Medieval English folklore, Puck is an evil fairy or demon, probably derived from Pouke, which in Old and Middle English would seem to mean a devil, demon, or evil spirit. It is an ancient word, found both in Germanic and in Celtic languages. The Irish pooka, or púca, and the Welsh pwcca are similar household spirits. Puki,
- [Brownie](https://robinhoodlegend.com/brow1372/) - A brownie is a Scottish and British folkloric figure, now the standard term for a helpful household fairy. When first recorded in the early 16th century, brownie was a dialect word limited to Lowland Scotland and the English border counties. Beliefs and tales about brownies are similar everywhere. They work at night doing housework and
- [Love Restored, Ben Jonson](https://robinhoodlegend.com/lo-rest-be-jon/)
- [Gammer Gurton's Pleasant Stories of Patient Grissel, The Princess Rosetta, & Robin Goodfellow, and Ballads of The Beggar's Daughter, The Babes in the Wood, and Fair Rosamond](https://robinhoodlegend.com/gam-gurt-pleas-stor-pat-griss-ros/)
- [The Mad Merry Pranks of Robin Goodfellow](https://robinhoodlegend.com/mad-mer-pran-robi-good/)
- [The Merry Pranks of Robin Good-Fellow: Very Pleasant and Witty](https://robinhoodlegend.com/merr-pran-rob-fello-pleas-wit/)
- [Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry](https://robinhoodlegend.com/reliqu-ancie-engli-poe/)
- [The Second Part of Robin-Goodfellow](https://robinhoodlegend.com/sec-par-robi-good/)
- [Robin Good-Fellow, His Mad Prankes and Merry Jests](https://robinhoodlegend.com/rob-go-fell-ma-prank-an-mer-jest/)
- [The Household Book of Queen Isabella of England](https://robinhoodlegend.com/househo-bo-qu-isa-eng/)
- [John Petit, 1315](https://robinhoodlegend.com/jo-pet-1315/)
- [John 'the Littel,' 1318](https://robinhoodlegend.com/jo-th-litt-1318/)
- [John Littel Johan, 1323](https://robinhoodlegend.com/jo-lit-joh-1323/)
- [John le Little, 1323](https://robinhoodlegend.com/joh-l-lit-1323/)
- [John Petit, 1313](https://robinhoodlegend.com/jo-pe-1313/)
- [John le Petit, 1319](https://robinhoodlegend.com/jon-l-pe-1319/)
- [John Petit Mariner, 1325](https://robinhoodlegend.com/jo-pet-mari-1325/)
- [John le Petit, 1318](https://robinhoodlegend.com/jo-l-peti-1318/)
- [J. W. Walker, The Yorkshire Archaeological Journal](https://robinhoodlegend.com/j-w-wa-york-arch-jour/)
- [Percy Valentine Harris, The Truth about Robin Hood](https://robinhoodlegend.com/per-valen-harr-truth-rob-ho/)
- [Court Rolls of the Manor of Wakefield](https://robinhoodlegend.com/co-rol-ma-no-wak/)
- [John Petit, 1315](https://robinhoodlegend.com/joh-pet-15769/)
- [John Petit of Westminster, 1315](https://robinhoodlegend.com/joh-peti-westmin/)
- [John le Petit, 1316](https://robinhoodlegend.com/joh-le-peti-131646/)
- [John Petit, 1316](https://robinhoodlegend.com/joh-pet-13168476/)
- [John Petit, 1317](https://robinhoodlegend.com/j-pet-1317793/)
- [John Petit, 1266](https://robinhoodlegend.com/jon-pe-1266/)
- [Personal Photos, Kirklees, October, 2008](https://robinhoodlegend.com/person-photo-kirk-oct-2008/) - 1. The Gatehouse, a largely Tudor building adjacent to the Priory site. According to tradition, the dying Robin shoots an arrow from the window to mark his burial place. See also, Robin Hoods death and burial. 2. The interior of the Gatehouse. 3.
- [Robin Hood’s Grave 10](https://robinhoodlegend.com/robin-hoods-grave-10/) - This is a reproduction of a plate that appears in the second volume of William Stukeley's Itinerarium Curiosum 1776 (Plate 99). The plate is taken from a drawing that is possibly a stylised copy of Dr. Johnston's original by Stukeley. The proportions and perspective are not entirely accurate; according to S.J.Chadwick the gatehouse at area B
- [Castle Green](https://robinhoodlegend.com/castle-green/) - The Robin Hood statue by James Woodford, presented to the city in 1949, one of several artworks in the area known as Castle Green, to the left of Nottingham Castle gatehouse. Note the missing bottom half of the bow. Statue of Friar Tuck, Little John, and Will Stutely, also by James Woodford. 'Robin Hood shooting his
- [Robin Hood and Queen Katherine (Francis James Child)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/robin-hood-queen-katherine/) - * I have reproduced only version C, as version A and B appear in the Percy Folio and Ritson's Robin Hood respectively.
- [Robin Hood and the Bishop of Hereford (Francis James Child)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/robin-hood-bishop-hereford-2/) - * I have only reproduced version B, as version A appears in Ritson's Robin Hood.
- [Robin Hood Rescuing Three Squires (Francis James Child)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/robin-hood-rescuing-squires/) - * I have only reproduced version C, as A and B appear in the Percy Folio and Ritson's Robin Hood respectively.
- [Robin Hood and the Pedlars (Francis James Child)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/robin-hood-pedlars/)
- [The Bold Pedlar and Robin Hood (Francis James Child)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/bold-pedlar-robin-hood/)
- [Robin Hood and the Scotchman (Francis James Child)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/robin-hood-scotchman/)
- [The Rhymes of Robin Hood 8 (Francis James Child)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/rhymes-robin-hood-8/) - BALLAD PAGE 130. Robin Hood and the Scotchman . . . . . . 150 132. The Bold Pedlar and Robin Hood. . . . . . 154 137. Robin Hood and the Pedlars . . . . . . . 170 140. Robin Hood rescuing Three Squires . . . . . . 177 144. Robin Hood and
- [Robyne Hode and the Munke (Robert Jamieson)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/robyne-hode-munke/)
- [Glossary (Joseph Ritson)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/glossary/)
- [Robin Hoods death and burial (Joseph Ritson)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/robin-hoods-death-burial/)
- [Robin Hood and the valiant Knight (Joseph Ritson)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/robin-hood-valiant-knight/)
- [Robin Hood and the Golden Arrow (Joseph Ritson)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/robin-hood-golden-arrow/)
- [The King's disguise and friendship with Robin Hood (Joseph Ritson)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/kings-disguise-friendship-robin-hood/)
- [Robin Hood and maid Marian (Joseph Ritson)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/robin-hood-maid-marian/)
- [Robin Hood rescuing the Widows three Sons (Joseph Ritson)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/robin-hood-rescuing-widows-sons/)
- [Robin Hood and the Bishop of Hereford (Joseph Ritson)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/robin-hood-bishop-hereford-3/)
- [Robin Hood and Little John (Joseph Ritson)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/robin-hood-little-john/)
- [Robin Hood and the Ranger (Joseph Ritson)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/robin-hood-ranger/)
- [Little John and the four Beggars (Joseph Ritson)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/john-beggars/)
- [Robin Hood and the Beggar (2) (Joseph Ritson)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/robin-hood-beggar-2/)
- [Robin Hoods Delight (Joseph Ritson)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/robin-hoods-delight/)
- [The noble Fisherman or Robin Hoods preferment (Joseph Ritson)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/noble-fisherman-robin-hoods-preferment/)
- [Robin Hood rescuing Will Stutly (Joseph Ritson)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/robin-hood-rescuing-stutly/)
- [Robin Hoods Golden Prize (Joseph Ritson)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/robin-hoods-golden-prize/)
- [Robin Hoods Chase (Joseph Ritson)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/robin-hoods-chase/)
- [Robin Hood and Queen Katherine (Joseph Ritson)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/robin-hood-queen-katherine-2/)
- [Robin Hood and the Stranger (Joseph Ritson)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/robin-hood-stranger/)
- [Robin Hood and the Curtall Fryer (Joseph Ritson)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/robin-hood-curtall-fryer/)
- [Robin Hood and the Shepherd (Joseph Ritson)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/robin-hood-shepherd/)
- [Robin Hood and Allen a Dale (Joseph Ritson)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/robin-hood-allen-dale/)
- [Robin Hood and the Tinker (Joseph Ritson)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/robin-hood-tinker/)
- [Robin Hood and the Tanner (Joseph Ritson)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/robin-hood-tanner/)
- [Robin Hood and the Butcher (Joseph Ritson)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/robin-hood-butcher-3/)
- [Robin Hood and the Bishop (Joseph Ritson)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/robin-hood-bishop/)
- [The Jolly Pinder of Wakefield, with Robin Hood, Scarlet, and John (Joseph Ritson)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/jolly-pinder-wakefield-robin/)
- [Robin Hoods Progress to Nottingham (Joseph Ritson)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/robin-hoods-progress-nottingham/)
- [Robin Hoods birth, breeding, valour, and marriage (Joseph Ritson)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/robin-hoods-birth-breeding-valour-marriage/)
- [A True Tale of Robin Hood (Joseph Ritson)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/true-tale-robin-hood/)
- [Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne (Joseph Ritson)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/robin-hood-guy-gisborne/)
- [Robin Hood and the Beggar (Joseph Ritson)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/robin-hood-beggar/)
- [Robin Hood and the Potter (Joseph Ritson)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/robin-hood-potter/)
- [A Lytell Geste of Robyn Hode (Joseph Ritson)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/lytell-geste-robyn-hode/)
- [Guye of Gisborne (Percy Folio)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/guye-of-gisborne/)
- [Robin Hood his death (Percy Folio)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/robin-hood-his-death/)
- [Little John, the Beggar, and the Three Palmers (Percy Folio)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/little-john-beggar-three-palmers/)
- [Robin Hood & Quene Katherine (Percy Folio)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/robin-hood-quene-katherine/)
- [Robin Hood and the Pindar of Wakefield (Percy Folio)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/robin-hood-pindar-wakefield/)
- [Robin Hood & FFryer Tucke (Percy Folio)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/robin-hood-ffryer-tucke/)
- [Robin Hood and the Butcher (Percy Folio)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/robin-hood-butcher/)
- [Robin Hood, a Beggar, & the Three Squires (Percy Folio)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/robin-hood-beggar-three-squires/)
- [Robin Hood Movies](https://robinhoodlegend.com/robin-hood-movies/) - 1908 Robin Hood and his Merry Men. This silent English short film was directed by Percy Stow (1876-1919) for the Clarendon Film Company, which he co-founded, in 1904 with H.V. Lawley, and it marks the first appearance of Robin Hood on the screen. The company had studios at 16 Lime Road, Croydon and produced largly comic films which were distributed by Gaumont.
- [Robin Hood Timeline - A Journey Through History](https://robinhoodlegend.com/robin-hood-time-journey-history/) - 1. c.1377 The lazy priest Sloth is ignorant of his Paternoster, but knows ‘rymes of Robyn Hood,’ the earliest certain mention of England’s greatest outlaw hero, in William Langland’s Piers Plowman. Its full title is — The Vision of William concerning Piers the Plowman, together with Vita de Do-wel, Do-bet, et Do-best, secundum Wit et Resoun; usually given in Latin as Visio Willelmi de Petro Plowman,
- [Londons ordinary: or, Every man in his humour. To a pleasant new tune.](https://robinhoodlegend.com/lo-or-o-ev-ma-hu-t-a-pl-n-tu/) - THrough the Royal Exchange as I walked, where Gal•ants in Sattin did shine: At midst of the day they pa•ted away at several places to dine. The Gentry went to the King's Head, the Nobles unto the Crown: The Knights unto the golden Fleece, and the Plowman to the Clown. The Clergy will dine at the
- [Robin Hood newly reviv'd. To a delightful new tune](https://robinhoodlegend.com/rob-ho-ne-re-t-a-del-ne-tu/) - COme listen a while you Gentlemen all, with a hey down down a down down, That are in this Bower within, for a story of gallant bold Robin Hood I purpose now to begin. What time of the day, qd. Robin Hood then, with a hey down, &c. Quoth little John, 'tis in the prime, why then we will to
- [Robin Hood, Will. Scadlock and Little John or, A narrative of their victory obtained against the Prince of Aragon](https://robinhoodlegend.com/ro-h-w-sc-t-vi-ob-t-pr-o-ar/) - NOw Robin Hood, Will. Scadlock and Little John, are walking over the plain, With a good fat buck which Will Scadlock with his strong bow had slain. Iog on, jog on, cries Robin Hood, the day it runs full fast, For though my Nephew me a breakfast gave, I have not yet broke my fast. Then to yonder lodge,
- [A general and true history of the lives and actions of the most famous highwaymen, murderers, street-robbers, &c.](https://robinhoodlegend.com/a-gel-an-tr-his/)
- [The Pinder of Wakefield Jest-Book](https://robinhoodlegend.com/th-pin-o-wa-je-bo/) - THE PINDER OF WAKEFIELD: Being the merry History of George a Greene the lusty Pinder of the North. Briefly shewing his manhood and his braue merriments amongst his boone Companions. A Pill fit to purge melancholy in this drooping age. Read, then judge. With the great Battel fought betwixt him and Robin Hood,
- [Thomas Deloney’s Thomas of Reading and The Pinder of Wakefield](https://robinhoodlegend.com/th-de-t-o-re-a-t-pi-o-wa/)
- [The Complete History of the Lives of Highwaymen, Footpads, etc.](https://robinhoodlegend.com/th-co-hi-o-th-li-o-hi-fo-e/)
- [The Complete History of the Lives of Highwaymen, Footpads, etc. 2](https://robinhoodlegend.com/t-com-his-o-t-li-o-hi-fo-e-2/)
- [The Whole Life and Merry Exploits of Bold Robin Hood](https://robinhoodlegend.com/th-wh-lf-mer-ex-o-bo-ro/)
- [Garland of the noble birth and gallant achievements of that remarkable outlaw 1662](https://robinhoodlegend.com/gar-o-th-nob-out/)
- [A True Tale of Robin Hood](https://robinhoodlegend.com/a-tr-ta-ro-ho/)
- [Robin Hood and the Duke of Lancaster](https://robinhoodlegend.com/rob-ho-du-lan/)
- [Robin Hoods Garland; or Delightful Songs 1663 (Excerpt)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/ro-ho-gar-or-de-so-16/)
- [Robin Hood's Garland 1689 (Excerpt)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/rob-hos-gar-168/)
- [Bold Robin Hood](https://robinhoodlegend.com/g-bo-rob-ho/)
- [A New Musical Entertainment. As it is perform'd at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane](https://robinhoodlegend.com/a-n-mul-ent-per-at-dru/) - Page [unnumbered] ROBIN HOOD. A NEW Musical Entertainment. As it is Perform'd at the THEATRE-ROYAL in Drury-Lane. The Musick compos'd by the SOCIETY of the Temple of Apollo. LONDON Printed; And Sold at the THEATRE, and by M. Cooper in Pater-noster-row. 1751. [Price Six Pence.] Page [unnumbered] Dramatis Personae. MEN. Robin Hood, Mr. Beard.
- [ROBIN HOOD; OR, SHERWOOD FOREST: A COMIC OPERA](https://robinhoodlegend.com/rob-ho-sher-for-co-op/) - ROBIN HOOD. (Price One Shilling and Sixpence.) ROBIN HOOD; OR, SHERWOOD FOREST: A COMIC OPERA. AS IT IS PERFORMED AT THE THEATRE-ROYAL, IN COVENT-GARDEN. BY LEONARD MAC NALLY, ESQ. LONDON: Printed by J. ALMON, at No. 183, Fleet-Street. M DCC LXXXIV. To Mr. WM. SHIELD, Composer to the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden. SIR, GIL BLAS
- [Robin Hood or Sherwood Forest, A comic opera, as performed with universal applause, at the Theatre-Royal, Covent Garden (Excerpt)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/ro-h-sh-fo-co-op-as-per-wit/)
- [MARIAN: A COMIC OPERA, IN TWO ACTS. PERFORMED AT THE THEATRE-ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN](https://robinhoodlegend.com/ma-co-op-in-per-th-ro/) - MARIAN: A COMIC OPERA, IN TWO ACTS. PERFORMED AT THE THEATRE-ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. By Mrs. BROOKES. LONDON: Printed by A. Strahan, Printers-Street; FOR T. N. LONGMAN AND O. REES, PATERNOSTER-ROW. 1800. [Price One Shilling.] DRAMATIS PERSONAE. Sir Henry Truman Mr. INCLEDON. Oliver (Father to Marian) Mr. THOMPSON. Edward (her Lover) Mr. JOHNSTONE. Robin Mr.
- [Merry Sherwood, or Harlequin Forrester](https://robinhoodlegend.com/me-sh-har-for/)
- [Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, Thomas Percy, 1765](https://robinhoodlegend.com/rel-an-en-po-t-pe/)
- [Old Ballads, Historical and Narrative](https://robinhoodlegend.com/ol-ba-his-and-nar/)
- [A Collection of Early Prose Romances](https://robinhoodlegend.com/coll-pr-ro/)
- [A Collection of National English Airs 2](https://robinhoodlegend.com/coll-nat-eng-ai-2/)
- [A Collection of National English Airs 1](https://robinhoodlegend.com/col-nat-en-a-1/)
- [Popular Music of the Olden Time](https://robinhoodlegend.com/pr-mc-ol-ti/)
- [Old English Popular Music](https://robinhoodlegend.com/o-en-po-m/)
- [Ancient Poems, Ballads, and Songs of the Peasantry of England](https://robinhoodlegend.com/an-po-ba-so-of-pe-en/)
- [The Life of Robin Hood by Joseph Ritson (excerpt)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/li-rob-ho-e/)
- [A Lytell geste of Robin Hode, with other ancient and modern ballads and songs](https://robinhoodlegend.com/ly-ge-r-ho-mo-so/)
- [Robin Hood and the Old Man](https://robinhoodlegend.com/r-h-th-m/)
- [The Birth of Robin Hood](https://robinhoodlegend.com/t-bi-ro-ho/)
- [Rokeby](https://robinhoodlegend.com/rok58/)
- [Ivanhoe (first edition)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/iv-fi-edi/)
- [Tabarts Collection of Popular Stories for the Nursery (1st edition)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/tab-col-st-n-ion/)
- [Robin Hood's Garland c. 1770 (excerpt)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/robi-hds-gar-17/)
- [The Adventures of Robert Earl of Huntington, Vulgarly Called Robin Hood (excerpt)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/adv-robe-ea-hu-vu-ro-h/)
- [The Famous English Archer; or Robert, Earl of Huntington, Commonly Called Robin Hood (excerpt)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/fa-en-ar-r-rl-hu-ca-ho/)
- [Anecdotes of Archery](https://robinhoodlegend.com/ans-arcy1/)
- [Robin Hood: a fragment, 1847](https://robinhoodlegend.com/rh-frag-47/)
- [Harold, or, The Castle of Morford, Bodleian MS Misc. Eng. e. 21 (Summary Catalogue 31777)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/har-ca-mo-bo-su-ca/)
- [Robin Hood: A Tale of the Olden Time (excerpt)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/ho-ta-ol-ti/)
- [Robin Hood: to a Friend](https://robinhoodlegend.com/od-a-fri/)
- [The Garden of Florence; and Other Poems](https://robinhoodlegend.com/gard-flo-and-er-po/)
- [A Supplication, Robert Barnes](https://robinhoodlegend.com/suppl-r-bar2/)
- [English and Scottish Ballads](https://robinhoodlegend.com/eng-an-sco-bal/)
- [Stories in Verse](https://robinhoodlegend.com/st-iver243/)
- [The Ballad Book](https://robinhoodlegend.com/balbo3902/)
- [The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, Volume III](https://robinhoodlegend.com/en-sch-p-ba-voiii/)
- [The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, Volume II](https://robinhoodlegend.com/th-engl-scot-ba-vol-ii/)
- [Old English Ballads](https://robinhoodlegend.com/ol-en-bas905/)
- [A Collection of Ballads](https://robinhoodlegend.com/col-o-ba946/)
- [English and Scottish Popular Ballads](https://robinhoodlegend.com/engl-scot-po-bal48/)
- [The Oxford Book of Ballads](https://robinhoodlegend.com/ox-bo-o-bal/)
- [Popular Ballads of the Olden Time](https://robinhoodlegend.com/p-bas-ol-ti/)
- [The Ballad Book](https://robinhoodlegend.com/th-bal-bo846/)
- [The Viking Book of Folk Ballads of the English-Speaking World](https://robinhoodlegend.com/vik-bo-fo-bas-en-wo/)
- [The Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads](https://robinhoodlegend.com/trad-tu-ch-bal/)
- [The Faber Book of Ballads](https://robinhoodlegend.com/fab-b-bal/)
- [Robin Hood and His Merry Men](https://robinhoodlegend.com/ho-hi-mer-me/) - Robin Hood and His Merry Men: A Play in Two Acts Elizabeth F. Matheson, London, Oxford University Press, 1914 CHARACTERS King Edward. Sir Richard at the Lee. The High Justice of England. The Abbot of St. Mary’s.
- [Robin Hood and the Pedlar by John Drinkwater](https://robinhoodlegend.com/rob-ho-ped-jo-dri/)
- [The Foresters: Robin Hood and Maid Marian](https://robinhoodlegend.com/for-ro-ho-ma-mar/) - The Foresters: Robin Hood and Maid Marian Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1892 DRAMATIS PERSONÆ. Robin Hood, Earl of Huntingdon. King Richard, Coeur de Lion. Prince John. Followers of Robin Hood: Little John, Will Scarlet, Friar Tuck, Much, A Justiciary. Sheriff of Nottingham. Abbot of St. Mary's Walter Lea, son of Sir Richard Lea. Maid Marian, daughter of
- [Robin Hood: A Play in Five Acts (excerpt)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/robi-ho-pl-fi-ac/)
- [Robin Hood: A Farcical Romantic Pastoral (excerpt)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/ro-ho-far-rom-pas/)
- [Peacock, Scott, and Robin Hood](https://robinhoodlegend.com/pea-sc-a-ro-ho/)
- [The Great Hero of the Ancient Minstrelsy of England, 'Robin Hood'](https://robinhoodlegend.com/he-o-an-min-eng-ro-ho/)
- [Dictionary of National Biography, Robin Hood](https://robinhoodlegend.com/dict-nat-bio-r-h/)
- [Robin Whood Turned Hermit, Francis Peck](https://robinhoodlegend.com/rob-wh-tu-her-fra-pe/) - To Depe-Dale come, most wisely Robin Whood, Surveys each Nook and Corner of the Wood At length he finds a lonely rocky cell, And in Devotion there resolves to dwell. There he grows wise and for his Patron taks The Thief repentant, and him thus bespaks Happy Robin Whood! Happy Robin Whood! O thou,
- [Houses of Premonstratensian canons: The abbey of Dale, William Page](https://robinhoodlegend.com/premon-can-dale-wil-pa/) - Houses of Premonstratensian canons: The abbey of Dale. Pages 69-75. A History of the County of Derby: Volume 2. Originally published by Victoria County History, William Page, London, 1907. 8. THE ABBEY OF DALE The abbey of Dale, or as it was often termed Stanley Park (De Parco Stanley), was a religious establishment
- [Desiderata Curiosa, Francis Peck](https://robinhoodlegend.com/desi-curi-franc-pe/)
- [The Hermitages of Depedale, or, Notes on the Chronicle of Thomas de Musca](https://robinhoodlegend.com/herm-o-depe-chro-tho-mus/)
- [The History of the Foundation of Dale Abbey, Avrom Saltman](https://robinhoodlegend.com/his-foun-da-ab-av-sal/)
- [Robin Hood: Medieval and Post-Medieval, Helen Phillips/Richard Firth Green](https://robinhoodlegend.com/rob-ho-med-po-med-he-phil-r-gre/)
- [Robin Hood: A Collection of Poems, Songs, and Ballads](https://robinhoodlegend.com/roh-col-poe-so-bal/)
- [The Gest of Robin Hood, W. H. Clawson (excerpt)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/ges-robi-ho-claw/)
- [Robin Hood: A Collection of Poems, Songs, and Ballads](https://robinhoodlegend.com/rob-ho-col-po-so-bal/)
- [The Archer's Chronicle and Greenwood Companion](https://robinhoodlegend.com/arc-ch-gre-comp/)
- [Palaeographia Britannica](https://robinhoodlegend.com/pala-britan/)
- [The Death of Robin Hood, Bernard Barton, 1828](https://robinhoodlegend.com/de-rob-ho-ber-bar-1828/) - His pulse was faint, his eye was dim, And pale his brow of pride; He heeded not the monkish hymn They chanted by his side. He knew his parting hour was come; And fancy wandered now To freedom's rude and lawless home, Beneath the forest bough. A faithful follower, standing by, Asked where he
- [Robin Hood's Good-Night, Nora Chesson, 1906](https://robinhoodlegend.com/hoo-go-nig-chess-1906/) - Good-night, good-night, Heart's Dearest. The Hunter holds the sky; There wakes no soul in Sherwood save Little John and I. 'Twixt thee and me the grasses grow thick and soft and green, And falls a drift of hawthorn above thee for a screen. 'Twixt thee and me, Heart's Dearest, the grass is green. Shall
- [The Bow, Eliza Cook, 1870](https://robinhoodlegend.com/bow-eliz-co-1870/) - A cheer for Robin Hood And Nottingham's famed wood; When the greensward was the merry men's resort: When the tough and springy yew, Was the bravest tree that grew, And the Bow held foremost place in English sport. Right glorious, I ween, Was the olden, forest scene; When bugles rang and sturdy yeomen met:
- [Of Robin Hood's Death and Burial, Sebastian Evans](https://robinhoodlegend.com/o-rob-ho-dea-bur-seb-eva/)
- [Little John and the Red Friar: A Lay of Sherwood, Bon Gaultier](https://robinhoodlegend.com/li-jo-re-fr-la-sher-gau/) - FYTTE THE FIRST The deer may leap within the glade; The fawns may follow free-- For Robin is dead, and his bones are laid Beneath the greenwood tree. And broken are his merry, merry men, That goodly companie: There's some have ta'en the northern road With Jem of Netherbee. The best and bravest of
- [Robin Hood: The Forresters Manuscript, table of contents](https://robinhoodlegend.com/rob-h-for-manu-table-cont/) - 1. Robin Hood and the Forresters 1 2. Robin Hood and the Bride 3. Robin Hood and the Old Wife 4. Robin Hoods Fishing 5. Robin Hood and the Sheriffe 6. Robin Hood and the Sheapard 7. Robin Hood and the Bishopp 8. Robin Hood and the Butcher 9. Robin Hood and Queen Catherin
- [How Robin Hood and His Outlaws Lived in the Woods, Leigh Hunt](https://robinhoodlegend.com/ho-rob-hi-out-liv-wo/) - Robin and his merry men Lived just like the birds; They had almost as many tracks as thoughts, And whistles and songs as words. Up they were with the earliest sign Of the sun's up-looking eye; But not an archer breakfasted Till he twinkled from the sky. All the morning they were wont To
- [Robin Hood, A Child, Leigh Hunt](https://robinhoodlegend.com/ro-ho-chi-lei-hun/) - It was the pleasant season yet, When the stones at cottage doors Dry quickly, while the roads are wet, After the silver showers. The green leaves they looked greener still, And the thrush, renewing his tune, Shook a loud note from his gladsome bill Into the bright blue noon. Robin Hood's mother looked out,
- [Robin Hood, An Outlaw, Leigh Hunt](https://robinhoodlegend.com/hood-out-le-hu/) - Robin Hood is an outlaw bold Under the greenwood tree; Bird, nor stag, nor morning air Is more at large than he. They sent against him twenty men, Who joined him laughing-eyed; They sent against him thirty more, And they remained beside. All the stoutest of the train, That grew in Gamelyn wood, Whether
- [Robin Hood's Flight, Leigh Hunt](https://robinhoodlegend.com/rob-ho-fli-le-hu/) - Robin Hood's mother, these twelve years now, Has been gone from her earthly home; And Robin has paid, he scarce knew how, A sum for a noble tomb. The church-yard lies on a woody hill, But open to sun and air: It seems as if the heaven still Were looking and smiling there. Often
- [An Hour of Robin Hood, William James Linton](https://robinhoodlegend.com/hou-o-rob-ho-wil-ja-lin/) - O for an hour with Robin Hood, deep, deep in the forest green, With fern and budding bramble waving o'er me as a screen, In mid noon shade, Where the hot-breath'd Trade Came never the boughs between. O for an hour of Robin Hood, and the brave health of the free, Out of the
- [The Matin-Song of Friar Tuck, Alfred Noyes](https://robinhoodlegend.com/mat-son-fri-tuc-al-noy/) - I. If souls could sing to heaven's high King As blackbirds pipe on earth, How those delicious courts would ring With gusts of lovely mirth! What white-robed throng could lift a song So mellow with righteous glee As this brown bird that all day long Delights my hawthorn tree. Hark! That's the thrush With
- [A Song of Sherwood, Alfred Noyes](https://robinhoodlegend.com/son-sher-wo-alf-noy/) - Sherwood in the twilight, is Robin Hood awake? Grey and ghostly shadows are gliding through the brake, Shadows of the dappled deer, dreaming of the morn, Dreaming of a shadowy man that winds a shadowy horn. Robin Hood is here again: all his merry thieves Hear a ghostly bugle-note shivering through the leaves, Calling
- [Robin Hood: ballads and songs relating to that celebrated outlaw; with anecdotes of his life, from Ritson and others](https://robinhoodlegend.com/ho-bal-son-celeb-out-wi-lif/)
- [Rymes of ... Randolf, Erl of Chestre, J. W. Ashton](https://robinhoodlegend.com/ry-ran-er-che-ash/)
- [A Lost Manuscript of the ‘Rymes of […] Randolf Erl of Chestre’, John Spence](https://robinhoodlegend.com/los-manu-rym-ran-che-spe/)
- [Encyclopaedia Britannica/Robin Hood](https://robinhoodlegend.com/encyc-britan-rob-ho/)
- [The Origins of Robin Hood, David Greenwood (extract)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/the-or-rob-ho-da-gre-ex/)
- [Rothwell in the 900 years after Domesday, Albert Brown (extract)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/rot-900-ye-dome-al-bro/)
- [The Celebrated History of the Famous Robin Hood, Captain Of the Merry Outlaws of Sherwood Forest](https://robinhoodlegend.com/cele-his-fam-ro-ho-cap-sher-fore/)
- [The Life and Death of Robin Hood, The Renowned Out-law, Who lived and died A. D. 1198; being the ninth year of the reign of King Richard I. commonly called Coeur de Lion.](https://robinhoodlegend.com/life-death-rob-ho-ren-la-liv-di/)
- [The Life and Death of Robin Hood, The Renowned Out-law. And the famous exploits performed by him and Little John](https://robinhoodlegend.com/lif-dea-rob-ho-ren-ou-la-lit-jo/)
- [The Celebrated History of the Renowned Robin Hood, The merry outlaw of Sherwood Forest. To which is added, the Professor of Signs](https://robinhoodlegend.com/hist-of-rob-ho-the-me-she-ad/)
- [The Life and Adventures of Robin Hood](https://robinhoodlegend.com/lif-adven-ho/)
- [Robin Hood Chapbooks Printed in Scotland: National Library of Scotland](https://robinhoodlegend.com/rob-ho-chap-scot/) - The Celebrated History of the Famous Robin Hood, Captain Of the Merry Outlaws of Sherwood Forest. The Life and Death of Robin Hood, The Renowned Out-law, Who lived and died A. D. 1198; being the ninth year of the reign of King Richard I. commonly called Coeur de Lion. The Life and Death of Robin
- [The Jolly Pinder of Wakefield (Broadside)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/th-joll-pin-wake/)
- [Robin Hood’s Progress to Nottingham (Broadside)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/rob-hoo-pro-nott/)
- [Robin Hood and the Beggar (Broadside)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/rob-ho-th-beg-bro/)
- [Little John and the Four Beggers (Broadside)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/litt-jo-fou-beg-bro/)
- [Robin Hood newly reviv’d (Broadside)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/hoo-new-revi-bro/)
- [Robin Hood’s Golden Prize (Broadside)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/rob-hoo-gol-pri-br/)
- [Robin Hood and the Butcher (Broadside)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/hoo-an-but-bro/)
- [A New Song to drive away cold Winter (Broadside)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/ne-son-dri-col-win-bro/)
- [Robin Hood and Allin of Dale (Broadside)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/hoo-an-alli-o-dal/)
- [Robin Hood’s Chase (Broadside)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/robi-cha-br/)
- [The Noble Fisherman (Broadside)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/nob-fis-side/)
- [Renowned Robin Hood (Broadside)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/renow-hoo-broad/)
- [Robin Hood, Will Scarlet, and Little John (Broadside)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/rob-hoo-wil-scar-litt-jo-bro/)
- [Robin Hood Broadside Ballads](https://robinhoodlegend.com/hoo-broa-ball/) - The Jolly Pinder of Wakefield (between 1658 and 1664). Robin Hood’s Progress to Nottingham (between 1663 and 1674). Robin Hood and the Beggar (Thomas Robins, between 1663 and 1674). Little John and the Four Beggers (1670). Robin Hood newly reviv’d (1673). Robin Hood’s Golden Prize (Laurence Price, between 1674 and 1679). Robin Hood and the
- [The History of Bold Robin Hood](https://robinhoodlegend.com/th-hist-o-bo-rob-ho/)
- [Famous Exploits of Robin Hood](https://robinhoodlegend.com/fam-exp-o-ro-ho/)
- [Robin Hood; being a complete history of all the notable and merry exploits performed by him and his men on many occasions](https://robinhoodlegend.com/ho-bei-comp-his/)
- [A True Tale of Robin Hood; The History of Robin Hood](https://robinhoodlegend.com/tru-ta-o-ro-h-2/)
- [A True Tale of Robin Hood; setting forth the life and death of that renowned out-law Robert, earl of Huntington, vulgarly called Robin Hood. Who lived and died A. D. 1198](https://robinhoodlegend.com/tru-tal-o-rob-ho-3/)
- [A True Tale of Robin Hood; Robin Hood's Challenge](https://robinhoodlegend.com/tr-tal-oro-ho-1/)
- [Life and adventures of that valiant outlaw Robin Hood, captain of the robbers of Sherwood Forest](https://robinhoodlegend.com/lif-an-adven-val-cap-rob/)
- [A True Tale of Robin Hood: Aldermary Church Yard](https://robinhoodlegend.com/tru-tal-ho-ald-chu/)
- [Robin Hood Chapbooks](https://robinhoodlegend.com/sele-rob-ho-chap/) - A True Tale of Robin Hood. London, 1750? A True Tale of Robin Hood; Robin Hood’s Challenge. Stirling, 1807. The Celebrated History of the Famous Robin Hood, Captain Of the Merry Outlaws of Sherwood Forest. Falkirk, 1810-1825? A True Tale of Robin Hood; The History of Robin Hood. Stirling, 1813-1820? Famous Exploits of Robin
- [Chambers's Encyclopedia, New Revised Edition, 1973](https://robinhoodlegend.com/cham-encycl0371/)
- [Chambers's Journal, 1928](https://robinhoodlegend.com/chams-jou2880/)
- [Notes and Queries, No. 165, 1852](https://robinhoodlegend.com/not-ques-16852/)
- [Notes and Queries, 1903](https://robinhoodlegend.com/not-quer-03/)
- [Robin Hood's Courtship with Jack Cade's Daughter](https://robinhoodlegend.com/rob-court-ja-cad-dau/)
- [Robin Hood and the Peddlers](https://robinhoodlegend.com/rob-an-th-ped/)
- [Robin Hood’s Grave 7](https://robinhoodlegend.com/robin-hoods-grave-7/) - This drawing has been attributed to Dr. Nathaniel Johnston, however it is a copy of one that is among William Stukeley's archives at the Bodleian Library, which is possibly a copy of Johnston's original. The Bodleian drawing differs slightly from the one shown here. The drawing on the left is 'The figure of the
- [Loidis and Elmete (1816)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/loi-an-elm-18/)
- [The Rhymes of Robin Hood](https://robinhoodlegend.com/rhymes-robin-hood/) - To give the reader a better understanding of how the story of Robin Hood has evolved, I have reproduced all the ballads that form what is generally known as the traditional English cycle. With the exceptions of the Gest of Robyn Hode, Robin Hood and the Monk, Robin Hood and the Potter and the versions in
- [Television](https://robinhoodlegend.com/television/) - 1953 Robin Hood. The British Broadcasting Corporation produced the first appearance of Robin Hood on television, with Patrick Troughton as Robin Hood, Kenneth MacKintosh as Little John, and David Kossoff as the sheriff of Nottingham. The series only lasted one season. 1955-1960 The Adventures of Robin Hood. A long-running British series featuring Robin of Locksley-Robin Hood
- [Operas, Musicals, and Pantomime 2](https://robinhoodlegend.com/operas-musicals-pantomime-2/) - The novel Maid Marian (see Fictional Books) by Thomas Love Peacock was converted into the comic opera Maid Marian: or, The Huntress of Arlingford. It was performed at Covent Garden for Christmas entertainment at the end of 1822. This opera proved 'all the rage' in the 1820s and was translated into German and French as well as being produced
- [The Many Robin Hoods](https://robinhoodlegend.com/the-many-robin-hoods/) - JOHN 1199-1216 Magna Carta 1215 Robert Hod servant of the abbot of Cirencester, slew Ralf of Cirencester HENRY III 1216-1272 Battle of Evesham 1265 Robert Hod of Yorkshire, fugitive in 1225, given the nickname 'Hobbehod' in a later record Robert Hod with Richard de Riparia and others, accused of a raid on the grange of Byland
- [The Rhymes of Robin Hood 11](https://robinhoodlegend.com/rhymes-robin-hood-11/) - The Collectors of the Robin Hood Ballads Anthony a Wood, 1632-1695 Samuel Pepys, 1633-1703 John Bagford, 1651-1716 Richard Rawlinson, 1690-1755 John Ker, 3rd Duke of Roxburghe, 1740-1804 Francis Douce, 1757-1834 Robin Hood and the Butcher (B version in Child) Collection Wood, 401, 19 b; Pepys, II, 102, No 89; Roxburghe collection, III, 259; Douce
- [Children's Books](https://robinhoodlegend.com/childrens-books/) - It was as a boy that William Wordsworth (1770-1850) first encountered in the chapbooks 'the Wishing-Cap/of Fortunatus, and the invisible Coat/Of Jack the Giant-Killer, Robin Hood/And Sabra in the forest with St George.(1)During Wordsworth's own life-time a change occurred in which writers and publishers were able to produce versions of the Robin Hood tales addressed
- [Hobbehod](https://robinhoodlegend.com/roberti-hod/) - In July of 1225, royal justices headed by Robert de Lexington held assizes at York. The penalties for various persons were put in charge at the Exchequer in 1226. One such record reads: Idem vicecomes debet xxxij. s. et. vj. d. de catallis Roberti Hod fugitivi. The sheriff (of Yorkshire) owes 32s 6d of the chattels
- [The Hermit and the Outlaw](https://robinhoodlegend.com/hermit-outlaw/) - This obscure poem deserves to be presented as it contains elements that are common to the outlaw genre. Of particular interest is the death of the anonymous outlaw by bleeding; a haunting theme that reminds us of the death of Robin Hood. The Hermit and the Outlaw also contains similar wording to that which appears in
- [Robin Hood Place Names](https://robinhoodlegend.com/robin-hood-place-names/) - The following Robin Hood place-names are only a selection of a vast amount. This list focuses on names in England that appear in Ordnance Survey maps, and are arranged in alphabetical order. Many seem to have originated after 1800, and of the others, the majority are first recorded in maps of the late eighteenth century.
- [Monasticon Anglicanum, William Dugdale](https://robinhoodlegend.com/mon-angl-wil-du/)
- [Barnsdale 2](https://robinhoodlegend.com/barnsdale-2/) - In the Gest, Robin tells Little John to: walke up to the Saylis And so to Watlinge Strete And wayte after some unketh gest Up chaunce ye may them mete When he, Much, and Scarloke 'loked in to Bernysdale', they were looking at Wentbridge. Looking north, towards Barnsdale Bar, where the Great North Road forked into two
- [Hans Sloane](https://robinhoodlegend.com/han-slo168/) - Sir Hans Sloane, baronet (1660-1753), a British collector and physician, was born on the 16th of April 1660 at Killyleagh in county Down, Ireland, the seventh son of Alexander Sloane, receiver-general of taxes. The young Sloane had an interest in collecting objects of natural history and other curiosities. At the age of sixteen he developed
- [A Lytell Geste of Robin Hode: Life of Robin Hood](https://robinhoodlegend.com/lyt-ges-rob-ho-li-r-d/)
- [A Collection of Early Prose Romances: Life of Robin Hood](https://robinhoodlegend.com/coll-ea-pro-ro/)
- [Fictional Books](https://robinhoodlegend.com/fictional-books/) - 1791 Harold, or, the Castle of Morford (Robert Southey), the first Robin Hood novel (in manuscript form in the Bodleian Library, not published). 1819 Robin Hood; A Tale of the Olden Time, the first Robin Hood novel to be published, the author is unknown. 1822 Maid Marian (Thomas Love Peacock), London, T. Hookham, 1822, reprinted.
- [Operas, Musicals, and Pantomime](https://robinhoodlegend.com/operas-musicals-pantomime/) - In the eighteenth century the outlaw hero appeared on stage in a series of comic operas and farces. The highlight of the 1730 ‘comic opera’ Robin Hood (‘An Opera, As it is Perform’d at Lee’s and Harper’s Great Theatrical Booth In Bartholomew-Fair’) was the farcical scene in which the Pinner of Wakefield chased Little John
- [The Ultimate Robin Hood Timeline](https://robinhoodlegend.com/the-ultimate-robin-hood-timeline/) - 1. c.1377 The lazy priest Sloth is ignorant of his Paternoster, but knows ‘rymes of Robyn Hood,’ the earliest certain mention of England’s greatest outlaw hero, in William Langland’s Piers Plowman. Its full title is — The Vision of William concerning Piers the Plowman, together with Vita de Do-wel, Do-bet, et Do-best, secundum Wit et Resoun; usually given in Latin as Visio Willelmi de Petro Plowman,
- [Sir John Oldcastle](https://robinhoodlegend.com/si-jo-ol/)
- [Thomas Percy](https://robinhoodlegend.com/tho-per/)
- [The Second Part of Poly-Olbion](https://robinhoodlegend.com/pol-olb/)
- [Henry Algernon Percy, the fifth earl of Northumberland](https://robinhoodlegend.com/th-ea-o-nor-ho-bo/)
- [The Castell of Courtesie](https://robinhoodlegend.com/th-cas-o-cour/)
- [A Survay of London](https://robinhoodlegend.com/a-sur-o-lon/)
- [METROPOLIS CORONATA](https://robinhoodlegend.com/met-coro/) - METROPOLIS CORONATA: OR, The olde Drapery and Cloathing of England, triumphing a second Yeere. HAuing in our last yeeres discourse of Himatia Poleos, sufficiently approued the true antiquitie, and primary Honour of Englands Draperie, heere in the Citie of London, first granted by King RICHARD the first, and seconded by his brother King Iohn, by enstalling that
- [The gang or The nine worthies and champions, Lambert, &c. To the tune of Robin Hood](https://robinhoodlegend.com/th-ga-la-c-t-th-o-ro-ho/) - To the Tune of ROBIN HOOD IT was at the Birth of a Winters morn, With a Hey down down a down down, Before the Crow had pist, That nine Hero's in scorn Of a Parliament forlorn, Walk'd out with Sword in fist. Johnne Lambert was First, a dapper Squire, With a Hey down, &c. A mickler man of
- [The Noble fisher-man, or, Robin Hood’s preferment](https://robinhoodlegend.com/th-no-fis-ma-o-ro-ho-pre/) - The Noble Fisher-man. Dr. Robin Hood’s Preferment, shewing how he won a Prize on the Sea, and how he gave one half to his Dame, and the other to the building of Alms-houses. Tune of, In Summer time. IN Summer time when Leaves grow green, when they grow both green and long, Of a bold
- [Miscellaneous, Raphael Holinshed](https://robinhoodlegend.com/mis-rap-hol/) - 1. 1577 Raphael Holinshed (d. 1580?), The firste [laste] volume of the chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande conteyning the description and chronicles of England, from the first inhabiting vnto the conquest : the description and chronicles of Scotland, from the first original of the Scottes nation till the yeare of our Lorde 1571 :
- [William Cornysh](https://robinhoodlegend.com/wil-corn/)
- [A very Comfortable, and necessary Sermon in these our dayes, made by the right reuerend father, and faithful seruaunt of Iesus Christ Martin Luther](https://robinhoodlegend.com/a-ve-co-a-nec-ser/)
- [A Treatise tending vnto a declaration whether a man be in the estate of damnation](https://robinhoodlegend.com/a-tre-tend-vn-a-dec/)
- [Idea the shepheards garland Fashioned in nine Eglogs](https://robinhoodlegend.com/ide-t-sh-gar-fa-i-n-eg/)
- [A discoursiue probleme concerning Prophesies](https://robinhoodlegend.com/a-dis-pro-con-pro/)
- [A counterblast to M. Hornes vayne blaste against M. Fekenham](https://robinhoodlegend.com/a-cou-t-m-ho-va-bl-ag-m-fe/)
- [The Golden-groue moralized in three bookes](https://robinhoodlegend.com/th-gol-gro-mor-i-th-bo/)
- [Ortho-epia Gallica Eliots fruits for the French](https://robinhoodlegend.com/or-ep-gal-eli-fr-fo-t-fr/)
- [A frendly larum, or faythfull warnynge to the true harted subiectes of England](https://robinhoodlegend.com/a-fre-lar-o-fay-war-t-th/)
- [The Stage of Popish toyes](https://robinhoodlegend.com/th-sta-o-pop-to/)
- [Acolastus his after-witte](https://robinhoodlegend.com/aco-hi-aft-wit/)
- [A treatise conteyning the true catholike and apostolike faith](https://robinhoodlegend.com/a-tr-c-t-tr-ca-a-ap-fa/)
- [The Supremacie of Christian Princes, ouer all persons throughout their dominions](https://robinhoodlegend.com/th-sup-o-chr-pr-o-al/)
- [The pityfull histori[e] of two louing Italians, Gaulfrido and Barnardo le vayne](https://robinhoodlegend.com/t-pi-his-o-t-lo-ital-ga-a-bar-l-va/)
- [The Whole Workes of W. Tyndall, Iohn Frith, and Doct. Barnes](https://robinhoodlegend.com/th-wh-wo-o-w-tyn-io-fr-an-do-ba/)
- [An answer at large, Thomas Knell](https://robinhoodlegend.com/a-an-a-la-th-knl/)
- [The Hould of Humilitie](https://robinhoodlegend.com/th-ho-o-hu/)
- [The Portraiture of Hypocrisie](https://robinhoodlegend.com/th-por-o-hyp/)
- [Churchyardes farewell](https://robinhoodlegend.com/ch-fare/)
- [Great thankes to the welcome, in Churchyards behalfe](https://robinhoodlegend.com/gre-th-t-th-wel-in-ch-be/)
- [Extracta e Variis Cronicis Scocie](https://robinhoodlegend.com/extracta-variis-cronicis-scocie/)
- [Henslowe's Diary Commentary](https://robinhoodlegend.com/hens-di-commen/)
- [Sir John Old-castle 2](https://robinhoodlegend.com/si-jo-o-ca-2/)
- [Sir John Old-castle 1](https://robinhoodlegend.com/sr-joh-ol-cas1/)
- [The Palice of Honour](https://robinhoodlegend.com/palice-honour/)
- [Troilus and Criseyde 2](https://robinhoodlegend.com/troilus-and-criseyde-2/)
- [Troilus and Criseyde MS 1](https://robinhoodlegend.com/troilus-criseyde-ms11/)
- [Henslowe's Diary (Foakes and Rickert)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/hen-di-fo-an-ric/)
- [The Elizabethan Stage (E. K. Chambers)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/th-eliz-sta-e-k-cham/)
- [Henslowe's Diary (Walter Greg)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/hens-di-wal-gr/)
- [John Foxe's Acts and Monuments 2](https://robinhoodlegend.com/john-foxes-acts-monuments-2/)
- [Jack Upland, Friar Daw's Reply, and Upland's Rejoinder](https://robinhoodlegend.com/jack-upland-friar-daws-reply/) - Jack Upland, Friar Daw's Reply, and Upland's Rejoinder, are three related works that are a good example of the English tradition of criticizing or defending the friars. They were written between ca. 1390 and ca. 1450 in the Midlands dialect. Jack Upland survives in two manuscripts: B.M. MS. Harley 6641, on vellum, and C.U.L. MS. Ff. vi. 2, on paper. This
- [The Ballet lute book](https://robinhoodlegend.com/th-ball-lu-bo/)
- [The Original Chronicle of Andrew of Wyntoun](https://robinhoodlegend.com/chronicle-andrew-wyntoun/)
- [Troilus and Criseyde](https://robinhoodlegend.com/troilus-criseyde/)
- [W. C. Bolland](https://robinhoodlegend.com/bolland/)
- [J. Ritson](https://robinhoodlegend.com/ritson/)
- [Elias Ashmole](https://robinhoodlegend.com/elias-ashmole/)
- [Burlesques of Robin Hood](https://robinhoodlegend.com/burlesques-robin-hood/)
- [How the Plowman lerned his Pater Noster](https://robinhoodlegend.com/plowman-lerned-pater-noster/)
- [Song on Woman](https://robinhoodlegend.com/song-woman/)
- [The Canterbury Tales](https://robinhoodlegend.com/canterbury-tales/) - In a manuscript of The Canterbury Tales (Royal College of Physicians 388) in the tale of Sir Thopas, the scribe has written: 'Men speken of romances of prys, Of Horn child and of Ypolys, Of Robynhoode and sir Gy, Of sir Lybeaux and Pleyndamour, But sir Thopas he bereth the flour, Of roial chivalry.' See
- [Compound of Alchymie](https://robinhoodlegend.com/compound-alchymie/)
- [The Paston Letters](https://robinhoodlegend.com/paston-letters/)
- [The Rous Roll](https://robinhoodlegend.com/rous-roll/)
- [A Crying of ane Playe](https://robinhoodlegend.com/acryingofaneplaye/)
- [Fabyan's Chronicle](https://robinhoodlegend.com/fabyans-chronicle/)
- [William Dunbar](https://robinhoodlegend.com/william-dunbar/)
- [Symmie and his Bruther](https://robinhoodlegend.com/symmie-bruther/)
- [Edward Hall's Chronicle](https://robinhoodlegend.com/edward-halls-chronicle/)
- [The Ship of Fools](https://robinhoodlegend.com/ship-fools/)
- [Barclay's Eclogues](https://robinhoodlegend.com/barclays-eclogues/)
- [The Interlude of the Four Elements](https://robinhoodlegend.com/interlude-elements/)
- [Magnyfycence](https://robinhoodlegend.com/magnyfycence/)
- [John Major](https://robinhoodlegend.com/john-major/)
- [John Major 2](https://robinhoodlegend.com/john-major-2/)
- [Why come ye nat to courte](https://robinhoodlegend.com/ye-not-courte/)
- [The Original Chronicle of Andrew of Wyntoun 2](https://robinhoodlegend.com/original-chronicle-hude-edname/)
- [The Dialogue Concerning Heresies](https://robinhoodlegend.com/dialogue-heresies/)
- [Rede me and be nott wrothe](https://robinhoodlegend.com/rede-nott-wrothe/)
- [The Confutation of Tyndale's Answer](https://robinhoodlegend.com/confutation-tyndales-answer/)
- [The Obedience of a Christian Man](https://robinhoodlegend.com/obedience-christian-man/)
- [The Image of Ypocresye](https://robinhoodlegend.com/image-ypocresye/)
- [Dives and Pauper](https://robinhoodlegend.com/dives-pauper/)
- [Liber Pluscardensis](https://robinhoodlegend.com/liber-pluscardensis/)
- [Scotichronicon](https://robinhoodlegend.com/scotichronicon/)
- [Edward Hall's Chronicle 2](https://robinhoodlegend.com/edward-halls-chronicle-2/)
- [John Leland](https://robinhoodlegend.com/john-leland/) - * The monastery of Kirkley where the famous noble outlaw Robin Hood is buried.
- [John Leland 2](https://robinhoodlegend.com/john-leland-2/)
- [Thersites](https://robinhoodlegend.com/thersites/)
- [Apophthegmes by Nicholas Udall](https://robinhoodlegend.com/apophthegmes-nicholas-udall/)
- [Robin Hood's Cross](https://robinhoodlegend.com/robin-hoods-cross/)
- [Jacke Jugeler](https://robinhoodlegend.com/jacke-jugeler/)
- [John Heywood](https://robinhoodlegend.com/john-heywood/)
- [The Complaynt of Scotland](https://robinhoodlegend.com/complaynt-scotland/)
- [Hugh Latimer's Sixth Sermon](https://robinhoodlegend.com/hugh-latimers-sixth-sermon/)
- [Walter Lynne](https://robinhoodlegend.com/walter-lynne/)
- [The Voyce of the Last Trumpet](https://robinhoodlegend.com/voyce-trumpet/)
- [Richard Robinson](https://robinhoodlegend.com/richard-robinson/)
- [Joseph Ritson/Richard Robinson](https://robinhoodlegend.com/joseph-ritsonrichard-robinson/)
- [The pistle to the reader](https://robinhoodlegend.com/pistle-reader/)
- [Henry Machyn's Diary](https://robinhoodlegend.com/henry-machyns-diary/)
- [Foxe's Book of Martyrs](https://robinhoodlegend.com/foxes-book-martyrs/)
- [John Foxe's Acts and Monuments](https://robinhoodlegend.com/john-foxes-acts-monuments/)
- [Cosmographical Glasse](https://robinhoodlegend.com/cosmographical-glasse/)
- [William Cunningham](https://robinhoodlegend.com/william-cunningham/)
- [John Knox](https://robinhoodlegend.com/john-knox/)
- [The Great Chronicle of London](https://robinhoodlegend.com/the-great-chronicle-london/)
- [The Merry Tales of Gotham](https://robinhoodlegend.com/merry-tales-gotham/)
- [The History of the Reformation in Scotland](https://robinhoodlegend.com/history-reformation-scotland/)
- [Thomas Randolph's Letter](https://robinhoodlegend.com/thomas-randolphs-letter/)
- [The Marriage of Wit and Science](https://robinhoodlegend.com/marriage-wit-science/)
- [Of May](https://robinhoodlegend.com/may/)
- [Grafton's Chronicle at Large](https://robinhoodlegend.com/graftons-chronicle-large/)
- [Grafton's Reprinted Chronicle](https://robinhoodlegend.com/graftons-reprinted-chronicle/)
- [The Longer Thou Livest The More Foole Thou Art](https://robinhoodlegend.com/longer-thou-livest-foole-thou-art/)
- [A Historie of Ireland](https://robinhoodlegend.com/historie-ireland/)
- [The Beehive of the Romish Church](https://robinhoodlegend.com/beehive-romish-church1/)
- [Robert Laneham's Letter](https://robinhoodlegend.com/robert-lanehams-letter/)
- [Scotorum Historiae 1](https://robinhoodlegend.com/scotorum-historiae-1/)
- [Scotorum Historiae 2](https://robinhoodlegend.com/scotorum-historiae-2/) - SCOTORUM HISTORIAE A PRIMA GENTIS ORIGINE CUM ALIARUM ET RERUM ET GENTIUM ILLUSTRATIONE NON VULGARI HECTORE BOETHIO DEIDONANO AUCTORE Duo postremi huius historiae libri nunc primum emittuntur in lucem Accessit et huic editioni eiusdem Scotorum Historiae continuatio per Ioannem Ferrerium Pedemontanum, recens et ipsa scripta et edita Parisiis 1575 PRAELIMINARIA: SCOTORUM REGNI DESCRIPTIO (18)
- [Scotorum Historiae 3](https://robinhoodlegend.com/scotorum-historiae-3/)
- [The History and Chronicles of Scotland 1](https://robinhoodlegend.com/history-chronicles-scotland-1/) - Edited by Thomas Maitland
- [The History and Chronicles of Scotland 2](https://robinhoodlegend.com/history-chronicles-scotland-2/) - Edited by Thomas Maitland
- [The Giles Lodge Lute Book](https://robinhoodlegend.com/giles-lodge-lute-book1/)
- [The French Littelton](https://robinhoodlegend.com/the-french-littelton1/)
- [The practise of the Diuell](https://robinhoodlegend.com/practise-of-the-diuell/)
- [The Frenche Littelton 2](https://robinhoodlegend.com/frenche-littelton2/)
- [The Historie of Scotlande](https://robinhoodlegend.com/the-historie-of-scotlande2/)
- [The description of Britaine](https://robinhoodlegend.com/the-description-of-britaine3/)
- [The description of Irelande](https://robinhoodlegend.com/the-description-of-irelande1/)
- [Misogonus](https://robinhoodlegend.com/misogonus1/)
- [The Workes of a Young Wyt](https://robinhoodlegend.com/the-workes-of-a-young-wyt1/)
- [A Floorish upon Fancie](https://robinhoodlegend.com/a-floorish-upon-fancie12/)
- [The Toyes of an Idle Heade](https://robinhoodlegend.com/the-toyes-of-an-idle-heade22/)
- [A Floorish upon Fancie 2](https://robinhoodlegend.com/a-floorish-upon-fancie-224/)
- [A Floorish upon Fancie 3](https://robinhoodlegend.com/a-floorish-upon-fancie332/)
- [The Posies](https://robinhoodlegend.com/the-posies3/)
- [Sermons of Master John Calvin](https://robinhoodlegend.com/sermons-of-master-john-calvin/)
- [Plaine Percevall the Peace Maker of England](https://robinhoodlegend.com/pla-perc-the-pe-mak-of-engl/)
- [History of the Worthies of England by Thomas Fuller (1662)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/his-worthi-engl-th-ful/) - . Memorable persons. . Page 47 THOMAS TARLTON. My intelligence of the certainty of his birth-place, coming too late, (confessed by the *marginal mark) I fix him here, who indeed was born at Condover in the neighbouring County of Shrap-shire, where still some of his Name and Relations remain. Here he was in the
- [The Three Lordes and Three Ladies of London by Robert Wilson (1590)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/th-thr-lor-a-th-la-of-lon-wil/) - The Actors names. Pollicie, the thrée Lords of London. Wit. their pages. Pompe, the thrée Lords of London. Wealth. their pages. Pleasure, the thrée Lords of London. Wil. their pages. Nemo, a graue old man. Loue, three Ladies of London. Lucre, three Ladies of London. Conscience, three Ladies of London. Honest Industrie, thrée Sages.
- [Tarltons Jests](https://robinhoodlegend.com/ta-je/) - Tarltons jests Drawne into these three parts. 1 His court-witty iests. 2 His sound city iests. 3 His countrey pretty iests. Full of delight, wit, and honest mirth. . London: Printed by I[ohn] H[aviland] for Andrew Crook, and are to be sold in Pauls Church-yard, at the signe of the Beare, 1638. . . Page
- [Orlando Furioso](https://robinhoodlegend.com/orl-furi/)
- [Discovery of Witchcraft](https://robinhoodlegend.com/div-o-wit/)
- [A Quip for an Upstart Courtier](https://robinhoodlegend.com/a-qu-for-start-courtier/)
- [The Two Gentlemen of Verona](https://robinhoodlegend.com/th-to-gentl-of-ver/)
- [William Shakespeare](https://robinhoodlegend.com/will-shake-2/) - William Shakespeare is affectionately known as ‘The Bard’ or ‘Sweet Swan of Avon,’ and although he has been described as the greatest writer in the English language, and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, details about his life are sketchy. Shakespeare is a fairly common name in Warwickshire, and most of the information concerning the Bard is
- [Pierce's Supererogation](https://robinhoodlegend.com/piersub/)
- [John a Kent and John a Cumber 1](https://robinhoodlegend.com/jo-a-ke-an-jo-a-cum-1/)
- [John a Kent and John a Cumber 2](https://robinhoodlegend.com/jo-a-ke-an-j-a-cu-2/)
- [The Malone Society Reprint](https://robinhoodlegend.com/t-m-so-rep/)
- [The Nightingale and Phillis](https://robinhoodlegend.com/the-nightin-an-phi/)
- [Upon a Dainty Hill](https://robinhoodlegend.com/up-a-dain-hi/)
- [The Cittharn Schoole](https://robinhoodlegend.com/th-citth-sch/)
- [Old English Popular Music](https://robinhoodlegend.com/ol-engli-po-mus/)
- [The Carew Manuscripts](https://robinhoodlegend.com/th-car-manu/)
- [Henry IV](https://robinhoodlegend.com/hen-iv/)
- [Wits Trenchmour](https://robinhoodlegend.com/wi-tren/)
- [Scottish Proverbs by David Fergusson](https://robinhoodlegend.com/sco-prov-b-dav-ferg/)
- [Paradoxes of Defence](https://robinhoodlegend.com/para-of-def/)
- [A Pleasant Conceyted Comedie of George a Greene, the Pinner of Wakefield (Excerpt)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/a-pl-conce-co-o-g-a-gr-t-pi-of-w/)
- [The Downfall of Robert Earl of Huntington (Excerpt)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/th-down-o-rob-ear-o-huntin/)
- [The Death of Robert Earl of Huntington (Excerpt)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/th-dea-o-rob-ear-o-hun/)
- [Lenten Stuffe](https://robinhoodlegend.com/len-stuf/)
- [Rosalynde: Euphues Golden Legacie (Excerpt)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/ros-eu-gol-leg/)
- [As You Like It](https://robinhoodlegend.com/a-yo-li-it/)
- [Pasquils Fooles-Cap](https://robinhoodlegend.com/pas-fo-ca/)
- [Pasquils Passe, and passeth not](https://robinhoodlegend.com/pas-pas-an-pas-no/)
- [Pasquils Mistresse](https://robinhoodlegend.com/pas-mist/)
- [The Lincoln Cathedral Manuscript](https://robinhoodlegend.com/lincoln-manuscript/) - Original entry.
- [The Hospitall of Incurable Fooles](https://robinhoodlegend.com/th-hos-of-incur-fo/)
- [Kemps nine daies wonder](https://robinhoodlegend.com/kem-ni-da-won/)
- [The Downfall and Death of Robert, Earl of Huntington](https://robinhoodlegend.com/downfall-robert-earl-huntington/) - Extracts from Anthony Munday's 'The Downfall of Robert, Earl of Huntington' and 'The Death of Robert, Earl of Huntington' (c. 1598) The two plays written by Anthony Munday are the most influential dramatic works about Robin Hood, and the only surviving Elizabethan plays in which the outlaw hero’s ‘career’ is dealt with at length. Munday’s
- [Matilda, the Faire and Chaste Daughter of the Lord Robert Fitzwater (Excerpt)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/matil-th-fa-ch/)
- [Troublesome Raigne of John King of England (Excerpt)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/troub-raig-of-jo-ki-o-engl/)
- [Plays and the May Festivities 2](https://robinhoodlegend.com/plays-festivities-2/) - Remarkably, Robin Hood played a prominent part in the springtime festivities of Scotland (not necessarily always in May) where he came to dominate the Scottish May Games, and according to Dobson and Taylor, even more than their English counterparts. This is less surprising due to the interest displayed in the outlaw hero by the Scottish
- [A Pleasant Conceyted Comedie of George a Greene, the Pinner of Wakefield (Excerpt)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/a-ple-geo-gre/)
- [The Many Robin Hoods 5](https://robinhoodlegend.com/the-many-robin-hoods-5/) - Robert Earl of Huntington Anthony Munday was probably influenced by the earlier theories of John Major and Richard Grafton, who place Robin in the reign of Richard I (1189-99). Grafton believed Robin was a disinherited earl, and he claimed to have discovered an ‘olde and aunciente pamphlet’ recording his life, and he refers to ‘the
- [Tarlton's Jests, and News out of Purgatory](https://robinhoodlegend.com/tar-je-an-ne-pur/)
- [Albion's England](https://robinhoodlegend.com/alb-engl/)
- [The Arte of English Poesie](https://robinhoodlegend.com/ar-of-eng-po/)
- [The Returne of the renowned Caualiero Pasquill of England](https://robinhoodlegend.com/nash-the-return-of-pas-of-engl/)
- [The Just Censure and Reproofe of Martin Junior](https://robinhoodlegend.com/the-jus-cens-and-rep-of-mar-jun/)
- [The Title of 'The Epistle'](https://robinhoodlegend.com/title-of-epist-marprel-tract/)
- [The Title of 'The Epitome'](https://robinhoodlegend.com/the-title-of-the-epitome75/)
- [The Seven Marprelate Tracts](https://robinhoodlegend.com/seven-marprelate-tracts1/)
- [Hay any worke for Cooper / Marprelate Tract](https://robinhoodlegend.com/marprelate-hay13/)
- [A Tale of Robin Hoode: The Overthrowe of the Abbyes 2](https://robinhoodlegend.com/tale-of-ro-hood-the-overthro/)
- [A Tale of Robin Hoode: The Overthrowe of the Abbyes 1](https://robinhoodlegend.com/tale-of-robin-hoode-the-overthrow/)
- [The Worthines of Wales](https://robinhoodlegend.com/the-worthines-of-wales27/)
- [William Camden's Britannia 1607](https://robinhoodlegend.com/william-camdens-britannia-1607/)
- [William Camden's Britannia 1600](https://robinhoodlegend.com/william-camdens-britannia-1600/)
- [William Camden's Britannia 1594](https://robinhoodlegend.com/william-camdens-britannia-1594/)
- [William Camden's Britannia 1590](https://robinhoodlegend.com/william-camdens-britannia-1590/)
- [William Camden's Britannia 1587](https://robinhoodlegend.com/william-camdens-britannia-1587/)
- [The Three Ladies of London](https://robinhoodlegend.com/the-three-ladies-of-london14/)
- [The Chronicles of England 2](https://robinhoodlegend.com/the-chronicles-of-england-22/)
- [The Chronicles of England 1](https://robinhoodlegend.com/the-chronicles-of-england-11/)
- [The Annales of England 3](https://robinhoodlegend.com/the-annales-of-england-33/)
- [The Annales of England 2](https://robinhoodlegend.com/the-annales-of-england-22/)
- [The Annales of England 1](https://robinhoodlegend.com/the-annales-of-england-11/)
- [Summarie of Englyshe Chronicles](https://robinhoodlegend.com/a-summarie-of-englyshe-chronicles1/)
- [An Heptameron of Civil Discourses](https://robinhoodlegend.com/an-heptameron/)
- [Christopher Fetherstone](https://robinhoodlegend.com/christopher-fetherstone/)
- [An Apologie for Poetrie](https://robinhoodlegend.com/an-apologie-for-poetrie1/)
- [Euphues and his England](https://robinhoodlegend.com/euphues-and-his-england/)
- [George Gascoigne](https://robinhoodlegend.com/george-gascoigne/)
- [The Pleasauntest Workes of George Gascoigne Esquyre](https://robinhoodlegend.com/the-pleasauntest-workes-of-george-gascoigne-esquyre/)
- [The Pleasauntest Workes of George Gascoigne Esquyre](https://robinhoodlegend.com/the-pleasauntest-workes-of-george-gascoigne-esquyre14/)
- [The Play of Robin Hood and the Friar](https://robinhoodlegend.com/play-robin-hood-friar/) - The survival of the play 'Robin Hood and the Friar' and 'Robin Hood and the Potter', is due to the decision by William Copland to append them to his edition of the Mery Geste of Robyn Hoode c.1560 (see Printed Sources for the Tales of Robin Hood). Copland described the two plays on the title page
- [The Play of Robin Hood and the Potter](https://robinhoodlegend.com/play-robin-hood-potter/) - It has already been mentioned that this fragmentary play of 'Robin Hood and the Potter', forms the second part of the 'playe of Robyn Hoode, verye proper to be played in Maye games'(1) appended by William Copland to his edition of the Gest. It follows the play of 'Robin Hood and the Friar' without any break
- [The Legend](https://robinhoodlegend.com/the-legend/) - From the first time men spoke of him, Robin Hood was believed to have been a real person. Over the centuries there has been much speculation as to who he was, however his identity remains unknown. No one could provide authentic records of his activities, but five of the oldest surviving poems or ballads as they
- [New Discovery](https://robinhoodlegend.com/discovery/) - My discovery reveals that Anthony Munday was almost certainly not the first to associate Robin Hood with Huntington. Munday was born around 1560, but crucially, Henry VIII died in 1547. The burlesque song below, from the time (temp.) of Henry VIII, proves that ‘Robyne’ was already associated with Huntington before the first half of the
- [The 1230 Pipe Roll Entry](https://robinhoodlegend.com/1230-pipe-roll-entry/) - Written as Rob Hood, the 1229-30 Pipe Roll entry, E372/74.
- [The Final Pipe Roll Entry](https://robinhoodlegend.com/final-pipe-roll-entry/) - Written as Rob Hod, the final Pipe Roll entry 1233-34, E372/78.
- [The 1227-28 Pipe Roll Entry](https://robinhoodlegend.com/122728-pipe-roll-entry/) - Written as Hobbehod, the 1227-28 Pipe Roll entry, E372/71
- [First Pipe Roll Entry](https://robinhoodlegend.com/pipe-roll-entry/) - Written as Rob Hod, the first Pipe Roll entry 1226-27, E372/70.
- [Edward III](https://robinhoodlegend.com/edward-iii/) - Edward III Edward III took power in November 1330, and he was determined as any of his predecessors to vindicate the forest rights of his crown. However in some counties he was compelled to accept the bounds of 1300. After the declaration of the forest bounds at the Salisbury Forest Eyre of 1330, only scattered areas
- [Edward I, Edward II](https://robinhoodlegend.com/edward-edward-ii/) - Edward I The forest law was enforced with a heavy hand by Edward I who also sat in judgement upon offenders against the venison. The intervals between successive Forest Eyres became longer, but fines and amercements grew in number and amount. Under Edward's forest judges, juries in Essex, Hampshire, Gloucestershire, Derby, Staffordshire, Huntingdonshire and Northampton restated
- [Henry II, Richard I](https://robinhoodlegend.com/henry-ii-richard/) - Henry II On his accession in 1154, Henry II repudiated the concessions extorted from Stephen, The whole county of Essex for example, was treated as royal forest, and during the years 1155 and 1156 had to pay a total of over two hundred and thirty five pound for assarts or unauthorized forest clearings. The Forest
- [John, Henry III](https://robinhoodlegend.com/john-henry-iii/) - John King John sold charters to a number of his barons which freed named woods and manors from the forest law. For example in 1200, Hubert fitzRalph paid 30 marks in respect of his manor and wood of Crich, and William fitz Wakelin 60 marks for his manor of Stainsby, all in Derbyshire. However the
- [The Decline of the Forest 1377-1485](https://robinhoodlegend.com/decline/) - The power of the Crown was diminished by lavish grants to the great magnates during the century following the death of Edward III. Many of the royal forests were granted to them to hold in fee. Thomas, Duke of Gloucester, Edward, Duke of Albermarle, and the Earl of March, were some of the recipients. The principal
- [The First Two Stuarts](https://robinhoodlegend.com/stuarts/) - James I The last attempt to re-establish the full forest administration was made under the first two Stuarts. The amount of land under forest law was still considerable at the accession of James I. Much of it had been enclosed, and pasture farming was the main form of agriculture. At this time the forests system was
- [The Forests Following the Restoration](https://robinhoodlegend.com/forests-restoration/) - After the Restoration, Charles II followed the example of his predecessors by granting away some of the remaining royal forests. In 1664 he disparked Clarendon Park, the last remnant of the royal forests in Wiltshire and granted it to the duke of Albermarle. In the north the disafforestment of the Forest of the Peak, and
- [The Nineteenth Century](https://robinhoodlegend.com/nineteenth-century/) - By 1810 the management of the whole of the Crown’s landed estates were placed by statute under three Commissioners of Woods, Forests and Land Revenues, to whom all the powers of the two Surveyors-General of Woods and Forests were transferred. When the offices of the Chief Justices of the Forest were finally abolished by statute in 1817,
- [The Modern Forests](https://robinhoodlegend.com/modern-forests/) - Of all the forests established in England by the Norman kings, some remnants of the ancient forest system still survive in three. In the Forest of Dean alone the four verderers are still elected as they were in medieval times-by the freeholders of the county called together in County Court by the sheriff. In the
- [The Tudors](https://robinhoodlegend.com/tudors/) - Henry VII had the task of restoring the reign of law in the forests and elsewhere. It was enacted that offenders were to be brought before a member of the King's Council or a Justice of the Peace for examination; hunting in disguise or by night, and wilful concealment of such offences were to be
- [William II, Henry I, Stephen and Matilda](https://robinhoodlegend.com/william-ii-henry-stephen-matilda/) - William II The succession to the throne was in dispute at the Conqueror's death in 1087, and his son William Rufus (King William II) was forced to enlist the aid of the English. He promised to surrender Crown rights over vert and venison in the woods of subjects, but when the danger to his crown was past he forgot his promises.
- [Verderers, Regarders, and Agisters](https://robinhoodlegend.com/verderers-regarders-agisters/) - A characteristic feature of the English forest was the appointment of knights of the locality to act as unpaid officers. Henry II decreed by the Assize of Woodstock that in every forest county four knights should be appointed as agisters to agist his woods, and twelve knights 'to keep his vert and venison'. The latter
- [The Swanimote, Courts, Inquests, Regard, and Forest Eyre](https://robinhoodlegend.com/swanimote-courts-inquests-regard-forest-eyre/) - The Swanimote The foresters, verderers and agisters met at a forest assembly to make arrangements for the agistment of the king's demesne woods. This assembly was called the 'swanimote or 'swainmote', from an Old English word meaning 'a meeting of swineherds'. The Charter of the forest in 1217 conceded that henceforth swanimotes were to be
- [Parks, Hays, Warrens, and Chases](https://robinhoodlegend.com/parks-hays-warrens-chases/) - Parks A number of royal parks were within the royal forests, or on their outskirts, and here the deer were preserved with special care. These parks were usually enclosed by a ditch and earth bank, topped by a wooden palisade, though by the reign of Henry III the royal parks of Devizes and Woodstock were enclosed by
- [Chief Justice, Wardens, and Foresters](https://robinhoodlegend.com/chief-justice-wardens-foresters/) - Chief Justice of the Forest In the twelfth and early thirteenth centuries, the forest administration was headed by a single official - the 'Chief Justice of all the royal forests of England', who was sometimes called the 'Chief Forester of England'. The task proved to be too much for one man, so in 1236 the
- [The Forest Law](https://robinhoodlegend.com/forest-law/) - Origins of the Forest System The pre-Conquest kings of England shared the passion for the chase of their Norman successors. Asser tells us that King Alfred excelled in the art of hunting, and it is believed that Edward the Confessor indulged in the sports of hunting and hawking. Within their demesnes these kings had extensive woods,
- [Map of the Forests of the north and east Midlands 1622](https://robinhoodlegend.com/map-forests-north-east-midlands-1622/)
- [Map of Forests and Chases of England and Wales](https://robinhoodlegend.com/map-forests-chases-england-wales/) - Click on map to enlarge
- [Robin Hood's Well](https://robinhoodlegend.com/robin-hoods/) - Sherwood Forest in 1609 A Crown survey by Richard Bankes, Thoroton Society Record Series, Vol. XL, Stephanos Mastoris & Sue Groves, Nottingham, 1997. A portion of the main survey map (PRO, MR 1142), showing the site later known as St Ann's Well, the place-name is now disused. Situated at the foot of a hill two
- [Sherwood Map 5](https://robinhoodlegend.com/sherwood-map-5/)
- [Sherwood Map 4](https://robinhoodlegend.com/sherwood-map-4/)
- [Sherwood Map 3](https://robinhoodlegend.com/sherwood-map-3/) - Click on map to enlarge
- [Sherwood Map 2](https://robinhoodlegend.com/sherwood-map-2/)
- [Sherwood Map 1](https://robinhoodlegend.com/sherwood-map-1/) - Click on map to enlarge
- [Map of the Boundary of Sherwood Forest in 1609](https://robinhoodlegend.com/map-boundary-sherwood-forest-1609/) - Sherwood Forest in 1609 A Crown survey by Richard Bankes, Thoroton Society Record Series, Vol. XL, Stephanos Mastoris & Sue Groves, Nottingham, 1997.
- [Map of the Royal Forest of Sherwood in the 13th Century](https://robinhoodlegend.com/map-royal-forest-sherwood-13th-century/) - The Sherwood Forest Book, Thoroton Society Record Series, Vol. XXIII, Helen E. Boulton, Nottingham, 1965.
- [Map of Sherwood and Nottinghamshire in the 13th Century](https://robinhoodlegend.com/map-sherwood-nottinghamshire-13th-century/) - The Sherwood Forest Book, Thoroton Society Record Series, Vol. XXIII, Helen E. Boulton, 1965.
- [Domesday Map of Nottinghamshire](https://robinhoodlegend.com/domesday-map-nottinghamshire/) - Click on map to enlarge
- [Anglo - Saxon Map of Nottinghamshire](https://robinhoodlegend.com/anglo-saxon-map-nottinghamshire/) - Click on map to enlarge The Victoria History of the County of Nottingham, William Page, London, 1906.
- [Maps](https://robinhoodlegend.com/maps/) - Anglo - Saxon Map of Nottinghamshire Domesday Map of Nottinghamshire Map of Sherwood and Nottinghamshire in the 13th century Map of the Royal Forest of Sherwood in the 13th century Map of the boundary of Sherwood Forest in 1609 Survey Map of St Ann's Well in 1609 Ordnance Map of Thieves Wood, Fountaindale, Friar Tuck's Well, Blood and
- [St Mary's Church](https://robinhoodlegend.com/st-marys-church/) - St Mary's Church in Nottingham has Saxon origins, but most of what is seen today dates from the 14th and 15th centuries. Presumably the church named in the early ballad, Robin Hood and the Monk.
- [Old Market Square](https://robinhoodlegend.com/market-square/) - Old Market Square in Nottingham, with the Council House in the background. The square has a long history as a meeting place, as well as the location for local events.
- [Nottingham Council House](https://robinhoodlegend.com/nottingham-council-house/) - Frescoes featuring Robin Hood in the dome of the Nottingham Council House, built 1927-9.
- [Nottingham Castle](https://robinhoodlegend.com/nottingham-castle/) - The gatehouse of Nottingham Castle, that stands above the city on Castle Rock. The arch is 14th century, but on the whole the castle is the first Duke of Newcastle's 17th century Ducal Palace. The first castle on the site was a wooden structure built by William the Conqueror. In 1170 it was rebuilt in stone by Henry II. In 1194 Richard I laid
- [Annesley Hall](https://robinhoodlegend.com/annesley-hall/) - Annesley Hall (at dusk) where Robin's boots were reputedly kept. Established in the 13th century, it was altered and extended in the 17th century, and has been modified several times since. Nearby are the remains of Annesley Castle.
- [Sherwood Forest National Nature Reserve](https://robinhoodlegend.com/sherwood-forest-national-nature-reserve/)
- [Edwinstowe](https://robinhoodlegend.com/edwinstowe/) - The statue of Robin and Marian in the village of Edwinstowe. According to tradition, they were married in Edwinstowe Church.
- [Will Scarlet's Grave](https://robinhoodlegend.com/scarlets-grave/) - Will Scarlet's supposed gravestone (apparently a cornerstone of the old church) in the grounds of the Church of St. Mary of the Purification in Blidworth, where Maid Marian was thought to have lived. Tradition has it that she was escorted to Edwinstowe where she married Robin.
- [The King's Great Way](https://robinhoodlegend.com/kings-great/) - A section of the King's Great Way, near Robin Hood's Stables, one mile north of Papplewick.
- [Blood and Guts Lane](https://robinhoodlegend.com/blood-guts-lane/) - The spot, in Blood and Guts Lane (an old footpath which leads to Fountain Dale) where according to local tradition, Robin fought Little John on the bridge.
- [Fountaindale Lodge](https://robinhoodlegend.com/fountaindale-lodge/) - Fountaindale Lodge, where Sir Walter Scott reputedly wrote parts of Ivanhoe.
- [Friar Tuck's Well](https://robinhoodlegend.com/friar-tucks/) - Part of the cascade of Friar Tuck's Well, presumably also know as St Lawrence's Spring, a holy well or sacred spring on the east of Fountain Dale. Friar Tuck was supposedly one of a number of hermits who lived beside the well in a cell-cave. According to some traditions, the nearby moat is where he threw Robin into the water.
- [Fountain Dale](https://robinhoodlegend.com/fountain-dale/) - The sign for Fountain Dale by Robin Hood Way, a walking trail planned by members of the Nottingham Wayfarers’ Rambling Club. It was opened in 1985 with the plan of linking all the places in Nottinghamshire that have a connection to the Robin Hood legend. Originally 84 miles long, it was extended to 105. It runs from
- [Robin Hood's Stables](https://robinhoodlegend.com/robin-hoods-stables/) - A cave cut into sandstone one mile north of Papplewick. Nearby is a section of the King's Great Way.
- [Personal Photos 2008](https://robinhoodlegend.com/personal-photos-2008/) - ROBIN HOOD'S STABLES FOUNTAIN DALE FRIAR TUCK'S WELL FOUNTAINDALE LODGE BLOOD AND GUTS LANE KING'S GREAT WAY WILL SCARLET'S GRAVE EDWINSTOWE SHERWOOD FOREST NATIONAL NATURE RESERVE ANNESLEY HALL NOTTINGHAM CASTLE CASTLE GREEN OLD MARKET SQUARE NOTTINGHAM COUNCIL HOUSE SAINT MARY'S CHURCH
- [Sherwood Forest Country Park](https://robinhoodlegend.com/sherwood-forest-country-park/)
- [A History of Sherwood 7](https://robinhoodlegend.com/history-sherwood-7/) - During the Commonwealth there was disorder and aggression throughout Sherwood. Many of the rights and privileges, especially of those who took the king's side, were abolished, and the vert and venison were ravaged by the people of the adjoining districts. At the Restoration, Charles II showed interest in replenishing with game the forest and parks that
- [A History of Sherwood 6](https://robinhoodlegend.com/history-sherwood-6/) - After an interval of nearly fifty years, the forest pleas for Sherwood were again held at Nottingham in the spring of 1334, before Ralph de Nevill, Richard de Aldborough, and Peter de Middleton. (1) There were 119 presentments of venison at this eyre, a small amount considering the long period since the last court. In
- [A History of Sherwood 5](https://robinhoodlegend.com/history-sherwood-5/) - The roll for 1317 shows that twenty-two attachment courts were held that year, six each at Mansfield and Edwinstowe, and five each at Linby and Calverton. These attachment courts took jurisdiction of beasts trespassing as well as of vert offences. In April 1309, the sheriff of Nottingham was ordered to assemble all the regarders and foresters
- [A History of Sherwood 4](https://robinhoodlegend.com/history-sherwood-4/) - The next forest pleas of Sherwood were held at Nottingham on 1 January, 1287, before Sir William de Vescy, Thomas de Normanville, and Richard de Creping, justices in eyre of the lord king. (1) There were six verderers; Richard de Fort, William de Colwick, John de Annesley, Henry de Tinsley, William de Bevercotes, and Ralph
- [A History of Sherwood 3](https://robinhoodlegend.com/history-sherwood-3/) - Maud de Caux died in 1223, and as the office had been made hereditary by the charter of John (earl of Morton) she was succeeded as chief forester-of-fee by her son John de Birkin. In 1231 this hereditary office came to Robert de Everingham , in right of his wife Isabel, daughter and heiress of Thomas de
- [A History of Sherwood 2](https://robinhoodlegend.com/history-sherwood-2/) - In the winter of 1222 a great storm swept England, and many trees were overthrown. Special writs were issued by the crown to the authorities throughout England directing the sale of the timber with a return of the proceeds. These special instructions were forwarded inter alia, to the verderers and foresters of the forest of Sherwood; to
- [Thieves Wood](https://robinhoodlegend.com/thieves-wood/)
- [John Ogilby's Map](https://robinhoodlegend.com/john-ogilbys-map/)
- [A History of Sherwood](https://robinhoodlegend.com/history-sherwood/) - Contrary to popular belief, Sherwood was not a continous forest. It was not the largest forest in medieval England, and it owes much of its fame to the Robin Hood legend. Although it contained various tracts of open country, it was far more thickly wooded than many of the old forests, a notable contrast to the forest of the
- [Robert Hode Somerset](https://robinhoodlegend.com/robert-hode-somerset/) - Somerset Pleas Richard 1-41 Henry III (Civil and Criminal) Somerset Record Society Vol III 1897 Ed Charles EH Chadwyk Roll no 756 (Just1/756) 27 Henry III (1242-1243) m22d p298 Pleas and Assizes at Ylcestr (Ilchester) on the Quindene of Hilary in the 27th year of the reign of King Henry son of
- [Robert Hod Devon](https://robinhoodlegend.com/robert-hod-devon/) - Curia Regis Rolls Curia Regis Roll 116c m3 p522 Trinity Term, 20 Easter Term 21 Henry III Essonia coram domino Rege apud Wudestoke die Veneris ante Festum Sancti Andree.... Apud Rading (presumedly on the quinzaine of Easter, 3 May 1237, when the king was at Reading). Devon, Robertus de Bulkewurth' versus dominum regem de
- [Robin and Marion (Le Jeu de Robin et de Marion)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/play-robin-marion/) - The author of Le Jeu de Robin et de Marion, was known as Adam d' Arras, Adam de la Halle (Adan de le Hale) or (Adan le Bochu or Bocu). Most scholars tend to disagree with each other over the the scant details of his life, even the name is a problem. Adam was born in
- [The Later Story 2](https://robinhoodlegend.com/later-story-2/) - In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries printers began to exploit the 'mass' market. Stories were printed in various forms, they could be broadsides, (single sheets printed on one side) or garlands, (anthologies) or chapbooks. (small books) Towards the end of the seventeenth century the broadside was in decline, this was replaced by the garlands. Most
- [The Early Ballads 2](https://robinhoodlegend.com/early-ballads-2/) - Meanwhile, Robin has met Sir Guy who admits that he is hunting Robin Hood. The two decide to compete in an archery contest; at this point Guy is unaware of his competitors identity. Robin wins the competition and reveals his identity; this results in a long battle with the sword, however Robin eventually slays Sir
- [The Legend 5](https://robinhoodlegend.com/the-legend-5/) - In the Gest, Robin shoots the sheriff of Nottingham then beheads him. In Robin Hood and the Monk, Little John beheads a monk, then Much the Millar’s son does the same to the monk’s little page. The outlaws kill with vigor, and their ruthlessness cannot be overlooked, but Robin and his merry men were still
- [The Legend 4](https://robinhoodlegend.com/the-legend-4/) - Robyn and Gandelyn survived in a manuscript collection of the mid-fifteenth century. It begins with Robyn and Gandelyn going to the woods to hunt deer. They find a herd, Robyn shoots the fattest deer then is himself shot and killed. The assassin turns out to be Wrennok of Donne. After verbal interaction Wrennok shoots at
- [The Later Story](https://robinhoodlegend.com/later-story/) - In the late fifteenth century, Robin became associated with the May Games. Maid Marian appears as the May Queen in the sixteenth century, where the two came together, Maid Marian as queen of May, Robin as her king. The poet Alexander Barclay, writing about 1513-4, is the first person known to mention Robin Hood and
- [Edward the First](https://robinhoodlegend.com/edward-the-first/)
- [The Merry Men of the Early Ballads](https://robinhoodlegend.com/merry-men-early-ballads/) - Robyn Hode and the Munke: Litull John/John, Moche the Myler's sone/Moch the Myler's sone/Moche/Moch/Much, Wyll Scathlok. Robyn Hode and the Potter: Lytyll John/Leytell John/Lytell John/Lytel John/Leytyll John. Guye of Gisborne: Litle John/John, Scarlett. Robin Hoode his Death: Litle John/John, Will Scarllett/William Scarlett. A Lytell Geste of Robyn Hode: Lytell Johan/Lytel Johan/Lytyll Johan/Johan, Wyllyam Scathelock/Wyllyam Scathelocke/Scathelock/Scathelocke/Scatheloke, Much the Miller's
- [Allen a Dale 2](https://robinhoodlegend.com/allen-dale2/)
- [The Morris Dance](https://robinhoodlegend.com/morris-dance/) - This form of English rustic dance was usually performed with tabors, staves, handkerchiefes, or swords, by men adorned with bells, sometimes with coloured ribbons streaming from their arms and shoulders. It is thought to be of Moorish origin, which refers to people from northern Africa that had occupied the Iberian Peninsula, comprising most of what is now Spain and Portugal. The word
- [The Mummers Plays](https://robinhoodlegend.com/mummers-plays/) - This type of seasonal English folk drama was often performed at Christmas time from house to house. The play has been described as a strange processional dance and mimetic game with dialogue, however the term ‘mummers’ has a rather imprecise meaning. In parts of northern England, children with blackened faces have gone from house to house at Christmas time,
- [References to Robin Hood Plays](https://robinhoodlegend.com/references-robin-hood-plays/)
- [R. J. E. Tiddy, The Mummers Play](https://robinhoodlegend.com/tiddy-mummers-play/)
- [May Festivities](https://robinhoodlegend.com/festivities/) - The origins of the May festivities are lost beyond recall, from early times dance and song has celebrated the coming of spring. The Celtic festival of Beltane was held on the first day of May in Ireland and Scotland, a celebration of the beginning of summer and the return of livestock to open pasture. Beltane is first mentioned in a glossary
- [George a Greene](https://robinhoodlegend.com/george-greene/)
- [Early Images of the Morris Dance](https://robinhoodlegend.com/early-images-morris-dance/) - Presented below is a part of a History Bible containing the New Testament with The Destruction of Jerusalem, preceded by the Book of Psalms. The text was copied by Gerard Wesselszoon in 1443, from Deventer, a professional scribe, who must have been living in Utrecht at the time. Below this is a copy of an engraving on copper by Israel
- [Church-wardens Accounts](https://robinhoodlegend.com/churchwardens-accounts/)
- [A Pleasant Commodie called Looke About You (extract)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/pleasant-commodie-called-looke/) - An extract from The Malone Society Reprints, 1913.
- [Plays and the May Festivities 3](https://robinhoodlegend.com/plays-festivities-3/) - Alexander Barclay, a monk of Ely writing about 1513-14, in his version of Virgil’s Fourth Eclogue, gives us the first literary allusion to Maid Marian: Yet would I gladly heare nowe some mery fit / Of maide Marian, or els of Robin Hoode This could suggest the two characters were still alternatives rather than associates,(1) however expenses relating
- [Plays and the May Festivities](https://robinhoodlegend.com/plays-festivities/) - It is uncertain as to when Robin Hood first appeared as a character in plays, but there is a reference to a Robin Hood play at Exeter as early as 1427 (see Gazetteer of References to Robin Hood Plays before 1600). Walter Bower records in his Scotichronicon of the 1440s: ‘At this time there arose from among the disinherited and
- [Kirklees Priory Plan](https://robinhoodlegend.com/kirklees-priory-plan/) - According to the legend, Robin goes to Kyrkesly (identified as Kirklees Priory in Yorkshire) to be bled by his relative the prioress, unaware that she and her lover (Syr Roger of Donkestere in the Gest, or Red Roger in Robin Hoode his Death) are planning his demise (see The Early Ballads). The possible layout of Kirklees Priory is presented below, using an enlargement of area B of The Prospect
- [The Prospect of Kirklees Abbey](https://robinhoodlegend.com/prospect-kirklees-abbey/)
- [Plan of Excavations](https://robinhoodlegend.com/plan-excavations/) - This plan, along with other information by Sir George Armytage, appeared in the Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, Vol. XX.
- [Wynkyn de Worde](https://robinhoodlegend.com/wynkyn-de-worde/) - The printing press was brought to England by William Caxton, but Wynkyn de Worde should be recognised for insuring its success. His name suggests he was born in a place called Wörth, or Woerth in the region of Alsace, in north-eastern France. In various records Wynkyn is named as Winandus van Worden, John or Johannes Wynkyn or Wykyn, Wynkyn Vort,
- [William Caxton](https://robinhoodlegend.com/william-caxton/) - William Caxton, the merchant, diplomat, writer and printer, was the first English person to work as a printer and the first to introduce a printing press into England. Born about 1422 in Kent, he began his career at age 14 for Robert Large, one of the most wealthy and important merchants in London, and a leading member of the
- [Richard Pynson](https://robinhoodlegend.com/richard-pynson/) - Richard Pynson was another dominant figure in early English printing. Born in Normandy in about 1448, he appears to have taken over the printing business of William de Machlinia (i.e. of Malines in Flanders) who along with Johannes Lettau (a Lithuanian?), printed law books in London until about 1483. Machlinia continued to print in various London locations until about
- [Jan van Doesborch](https://robinhoodlegend.com/jan-van-doesborch/) - Little is known of the life of Jan van Doesborch or Doesborgh, a Dutch bookseller, printer, illustrator, publisher and translator. He was probably born in Doesborgh in the Netherlands, a small place not far from Arnhem, at the junction of the Oude and Nieuwe Ijssel. In around 1502 he succeeded to the business of Roelant van den Dorpe, in
- [Early Editions of the Gest](https://robinhoodlegend.com/early-editions-gest/) - The Gest is the longest ballad and one of the earliest surviving tales of Robin Hood. It has survived in printed form only, in several editions which contain variation in text. Presented below is a Gest of Robyn Hode, from the Chepman and Myllar prints in the National Library of Scotland, formally known as the Lettersnijder edition. Generally attributed to the press of
- [The Many Robin Hoods 11](https://robinhoodlegend.com/the-many-robin-hoods-11/) - Robert of Wetherby David Crook has put forward another candidate. He mentions the record of a hunt to find Robert of Wetherby, who is described as an 'outlaw and evildoer of our land'. The hunt cost forty shillings, and in the following year another twenty eight shillings was spent when trying to behead him. Then
- [Loxley Wood and Loxlay](https://robinhoodlegend.com/loxley-wood-loxlay/) - Plumpton Correspondence, from Sir Edward Plumpton’s book of letters p. xviii (printed for the Camden Society, 1839). In the fourteenth year of the reign of King Edward, (1285) son of King Henry, on Saturday next after the Annunciation of Blessed Mary, it was agreed at Knaresburgh, between Edmond Earl of Cornwall and Sir Robert de
- [Historical Books](https://robinhoodlegend.com/historical-books/) - Here presented is a selection of some of the many books that have contributed towards the overall understanding of the legend. There is more than one edition of most of them. Click on the icon to enlarge. The Outlaws of Medieval Legend, Maurice Keen, 1961, Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd, London. This overview of medieval outlaws includes Robin Hood, Hereward the Wake,
- [Records of Godberd](https://robinhoodlegend.com/records-of-godberd/) - 1250 Roger Godberd complains, unavailingly, that his mother and step-father have wasted his lands. G. F. Farnham, Leiscestershire Medieval Village Notes, 6 vols. (Leicester 1928-33), iv, p. 190. Curia Regis Roll 141. Trinity, 34 Henry III, 1250, m. 13, Leyc. Anketil de Swaninton and Margaret, his wife, were attached to answer Roger Godebert in a
- [The Many Robin Hoods 6](https://robinhoodlegend.com/the-many-robin-hoods-6/) - Robert Fitzooth In 1746 Dr William Stukeley produced a false pedigree or family tree, in which he indicated that Robert Fitzooth was commonly called Robin Hood, pretended earl of Huntington.(1) This was the result of confused information he had obtained from William Dugdale's Baronage of 1675, itself not completely accurate. Stukeley also had the Fitzooths as
- [Board Games](https://robinhoodlegend.com/board-games/) - 1938 The Adventures of Robin Hood. Published by Whitman (designer unknown). A rare roll and move dice game for four players. Presumably based on the Eroll Flynn movie of 1938, with the same title. 1956 The Adventures of Robin Hood. Published by Bettye-B (designer unknown). A roll and move children's game for two to four players, with a movie/TV/radio theme. Apparently
- [Comics](https://robinhoodlegend.com/comics/) - Robin Hood's first appearance in comics came from Britain: 1920 Robin Hood appeared in a Dreamy Daniel comic strip (drawn by George Davey) in Lot-o'-Fun. 1922 to 1941 In the comic Bubbles in a 20 year run (drawn by Vincent Daniel). 1923 In The Chick's Own. 1930 In Merry and Bright. 1937 In Sparkler. The comics
- [Acknowledgements](https://robinhoodlegend.com/acknowledgements-2/) - Robert Lynley Robert's research into medieval records and references to Robin Hood is second to none. He has made important new discoveries and gives advice to established scholars and authors. His information and his personal and enlightening tour of the Yorkshire places associated with Robin Hood have provided me with invaluable information for this site. David Hepworth David is an authority on
- [Perambulations](https://robinhoodlegend.com/perambulations/) - Curia Regis Rolls Vol XII p132 Curia Regis Roll 90 (m9) Trinity Term, 9 Henry III (1225) 'Ebor'.- Dies datus est Willelmo de Percy querenti et Ricardo de Percy per attornatum suum de audiendo judicio suo de fine facto inter eos de maneriis de Tatecastr' et de Linton' et Spoford' de Gisburn' de Sadeleg' et
- [Follifoot Land Deed](https://robinhoodlegend.com/follifoot-land-deed/) - Yorkshire Deeds Vol IV p67 Follifoot 1223? 235. Grant by Adam de Sciclinghale and Scherid, his wife, daughter of Beatrix (filia Beatrici), to William son of Robert de Plumtun, for his homage and service, of a bovate of land in Folifait which the grantors had held of Jolan de Aiketon, at a yearly rent
- [Encyclopedie Theologique](https://robinhoodlegend.com/encyclopedie-theologique/) - These pastourelles and motets are mixed in with a version of Le Jeu de Robin et de Marion by Adam de la Halle, which has been excluded.
- [Motets](https://robinhoodlegend.com/motets/) - The motet was originally a polyphonic composition based on a sacred text and usually sung without accompaniment. It has its origins in the thirteenth century, and is attributed to Pérotin and his contemporaries at Notre Dame, Paris. Pérotin was probably French, and he lived around the end of the 12th and beginning of the 13th century.
- [Pastourelles](https://robinhoodlegend.com/pastourelles/) - The pastourelle is a French, (or Provençcal, a dialect that became the language of the troubadours) medieval lyric characterized by its pastoral theme, usually the attempted seduction of a shepherdess by a gallant knight. The form originated with the troubadour poets of the 12th century and particularly with the poet Marcabru. He is one of
- [Trouveres](https://robinhoodlegend.com/trouvere2785-2/) - The troubadour was a class of lyric poet and poet musician that flourished from the 11th through the 13th century, chiefly in Provence and other regions of southern France. They wrote in the southern dialect called langue d'oc. The most common forms were sirventes (political poems), plancs (dirges), albas (morning songs), pastorals, and Jeux-partis (disputes);
- [Robert Twenge](https://robinhoodlegend.com/robert-twenge/) - Translation from page 609 to 613
- [Monk Bretton Priory](https://robinhoodlegend.com/monk-bretton-priory/) - The emblem for Monk Bretton Priory that appears in the arms of Barnsley. According to Heraldry of the World, the arms of the Priory were two silver cups and a cross on black.(1) However above the north gate arch of Monk Bretton Priory, there is a figure holding a shield that was painted black, with
- [Barnsdale Bar](https://robinhoodlegend.com/barnsdale-bar/) - . .
- [The Rhymes of Robin Hood 6](https://robinhoodlegend.com/rhymes-robin-hood-6/) - Robyn Hode and the Munke, . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
- [Robin Hood’s Grave 5](https://robinhoodlegend.com/robin-hoods-grave-5/) - Conclusions and Additional Considerations Richard Grafton was the first to mention the stone on Robin's grave, with a 'raised cross botonny on a Calvary of three steps sculptured thereon'. His Chronicle of 1569 informs us that the names of Robert Hood, William of Goldsborough and others were engraved upon it, and this is what Dr. Nathaniel
- [The Many Robin Hoods 8](https://robinhoodlegend.com/the-many-robin-hoods-8/) - In a nutshell, Hunter suggested that the Wakefield Robert Hode was in the right place, was of the right social group, (the porter of the king's chamber was listed among the king's vadlets or yeomen) and would be at the right time for the development of the legend by the fifteenth century. This idea seemed to fit
- [The Many Robin Hoods 4](https://robinhoodlegend.com/the-many-robin-hoods-4/) - A complaint was made by the tenants of Tutbury in Staffordshire against Piers Venables and his gang who had rescued John Forman in Sudbury, Derbyshire; Foreman had been 'lawefully arrested' and was being brought to the castle at Tutbury. Following this, Piers assembled many misdoers and 'in manere of insurrection, wente into the wodes in
- [Robin Hood’s Grave 9](https://robinhoodlegend.com/robin-hoods-grave-9/) - Robin Hood's epitaph The Gatehouse at Kirklees.
- [Robin Hood’s Grave 8](https://robinhoodlegend.com/robin-hoods-grave-8/) - . . Robin Hood's Grave c. 1900
- [Robert Hod Rockingham Forest](https://robinhoodlegend.com/close-rolls-1354/) - Close Rolls 1354-1360 May 16 1354, Westminster To Thomas de Brewer, keeper of the forest this side of the Trent or to him who supplies his place in the forest of Rokyngham. Order to bail Robert Hod, imprisoned at Rokyngham for trespass of vert and venison in the forest of Rokyngham, if he shall find
- [The Dramatic Fragment](https://robinhoodlegend.com/the-dramatic-fragment/) - The Play of Robin Hood and the Sheriff, c. 1475 The surviving part of this early play is contained in a fragment of twenty-one lines, written on the upper half of a single sheet of paper, that records financial receipts for the years 1475-76. Now preserved in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge, this leaf
- [Extracts from 'The Foresters'](https://robinhoodlegend.com/the-foresters/) - Alfred Tennyson's play The Foresters, was first published in 1892, the year of the author's death. The play has Maid Marian as the daughter of a certain Sir Richard Lea, who owes two thousand marks (which has been used to pay the ransom of his son Walter in the Holy Land) to the Abbot of St
- [Extracts from 'The Sad Shepherd'](https://robinhoodlegend.com/the-sad-shepherd/) - Towards the end of his life Ben Jonson wrote The Sad Shepherd, his only 'pastoral drama', which possibly due to his death in 1637, was never completed. In the play, which consists of about two and a half acts out of a projected five, Johnson combines the rustic characters of Robin Hood and his men with
- [The Chartulary of Monk Bretton Priory](https://robinhoodlegend.com/chartulary-monk-bretton-priory/) - p107 Wrangbrook (fo 185) (320) All men being present her and for to cum shall knawe that I John Pullan of Wrangbrok have gyffyn and grantyd and have faste by my present wrytyng to John Pullan, my son, his heres and assignes, vj acres and a rode of airebill land os it lyes in divers
- [The Tale of Gamelyn](https://robinhoodlegend.com/tale-gamelyn/) - The Tale of Gamelyn is regarded as the oldest surviving outlaw tale written in English, and one of the most ferocious and violent of the outlaw legends. Similar traditional stock and situations can be seen in The Gest of Robyn Hode: the animosity between the sheriff and the outlaw, the pardon obtained from the King, the
- [Commentaries on the Laws of England](https://robinhoodlegend.com/commentaries/) - .
- [List of Names](https://robinhoodlegend.com/robin-hod-surnames/) - . . National Archives Catalogue
- [Robert Hode Thyrun](https://robinhoodlegend.com/robert-hode-thyrun/) - Richard son of William de Thyrun killed Roger Pessun with an arrow. And John fled at once and was put in exigent and outlawed. He has no chattals. And the hue was levied,and the village of Thyrun could not produce him so is in mercy. And Robert Hode and Peter Tripet were attached to present
- [Robert Hod of Hedon and Ottringham](https://robinhoodlegend.com/coram-rege-plea-roll/) - Coram Rege Plea Roll 49/50 Henry lll Michaelmas 1265/66 Coram Rege Plea roll Henry III supporting entry 1268 Simon le Constable was pardoned in 1268: Translation of the rolls by David Pilling.
- [Ode Names](https://robinhoodlegend.com/ode-names/) - De Banco Roll, Easter, 2 Edward II, m81d 1328 Easter Term Thomas Ode of Moseley sued William le Botiller of Skelbrooke for a debt of 7 marks and 10s (£5 3s 4d) DDPR/34/1 (University of Hull Archives) 8 May 1341. Gift, Joan daughter of Thomas Ode to John Ode & wife Matilda for their lives'. Yorkshire Tax Rolls
- [Butler Arms of England, Ireland, and Wales](https://robinhoodlegend.com/england-ireland-wales/) - William Henry Butler, Esq., J.P. co. Gloucester. Born June 26, 1850. (Amorial Families, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, 1902). . Irish Families Their Names, Arms and Origins, Edward MacLysaght, (formerly Chief Herald of Ireland) Dublin, 1972. . The Dictionary of Heraldry Feudal Coats of Arms and Pedigrees, Joseph Foster, 1989.
- [Ermine Street](https://robinhoodlegend.com/ermine-street/) - Roman Britain, with Ermine Street highlighted.* While the northerly route between Lincoln and York was the shortest, this was not always passable during bad weather, so an alternative route was established which linked York (Eboracum), Castleford (Lagecium), Doncaster (Danum ), Littleborough (Agelocum), and Lincoln (Lindum). *Map of Roman Britain from Atlas of European History, Earle W.
- [Robyn and Gandeleyn](https://robinhoodlegend.com/robyn-gandeleyn/) - This medieval poems has been subject to varied and implausible interpretations. It was first published by Joseph Ritson in 1790, and has been reprinted many times since. Ritson (Ancient Songs and Ballads, revised ed.1829, p 81) gave it the title of 'The Death of Robin Lyth' as he thought that the Robin in this poem
- [The Outlaw's Song of Trailbaston](https://robinhoodlegend.com/outlaws-song-trailbaston/) - This poem is untitled in the original text, and consists of twenty five four line stanzas, all rhyming AAAA. It is preserved in an early fourteenth- century manuscript which contains a collection of Middle English lyrics. Written in Anglo-Norman, the language used in early fourteenth-century law courts, it could be called a political statement by
- [BROWN ROBIN (No. 97 in Child)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/brown-robin/) - Ballad Airs from Manuscript (Child)
- [Hind Henry and May a Row (No. 90 in Child)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/hind-henry-may-row/)
- [ROSE THE RED AND WHITE LILY (No 103 in Child)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/rose-red-white-lily/)
- [BROWN ROBIN'S CONFESSION (No. 57 in Child)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/brown-robins-confession/) - There is a similar tale of the sea in Swedish called 'Herr Peders Sjoresa,' and in Norwegian, 'Unge herr Peder pa sjoen.'
- [The Rhymes of Robin Hood 10](https://robinhoodlegend.com/rhymes-robin-hood-10/) - Sources and Editions of the Early Ballads Robin Hood and the Monk Source: (a) MS. of about 1450: Cambridge University Library, Ff. 5. 48, fos. 128v-135v. (b) One leaf of a MS. of the same age, containing stanzas 69³-72, 77²-80², Bagford Ballads vol. i, art. 6, British Museum. Editions: R. Jamieson, Popular Ballads and Songs (Edinburgh,
- [The Many Robin Hoods 10](https://robinhoodlegend.com/the-many-robin-hoods-10/) - Walker mentions the records which appear in the household expenses of Edward II, (P.R.O., E 101/380/4.) that contain the accounts of payments to a number of men described as 'grooms of the Chamber', among them is the name of Robyn Hod. (Robin Hood Identified,YAJ vol. XXXVI.) The following entries provided by Walker are in Norman-French
- [Manor Court Rolls, Robert Hode](https://robinhoodlegend.com/court-rolls/)
- [Wakefield Court Rolls, Robert Hod](https://robinhoodlegend.com/other-court-rolls/)
- [Robert Hode Wakefield Court Rolls](https://robinhoodlegend.com/wakefield-court-rolls/) - Hode is written as 'Hade' in this case. Robert and Matilda Hode's neighbour Thomas Alayn, had a corrody at Kirklees, which led David Hepworth to suggest that he is the 'Thoms' that appears on the grave slab drawn by Dr Johnston. This led to his belief that the Wakefield Robert Hode (above) promoted by Hunter
- [Roger Godberd Record](https://robinhoodlegend.com/calendar-patent-rolls/)
- [The Many Robin Hoods 7](https://robinhoodlegend.com/the-many-robin-hoods-7/) - Roger Godberd Between 1266 and 1272, Nottinghamshire and the neighbouring counties of Derbyshire and Leicestershire, were the target of a crime spree led by Roger Godberd, who was identified as 'leader and master'. He was a tenant of William de Ferrers, earl of Derby, in Swannington, Leicestershire, on the western bounds of the forest of
- [Robert Dore of Wadsley](https://robinhoodlegend.com/robert-dore-wadsley/) - Robert Lynley has found that two other men listed in this roll, Alan de Bradley and Richard de Cottingham, were also in the Patent Rolls amongst the several leaders of the York Riots of November 1380. This led to the suggestion that Robert Hode was also involved, and pardoned with others in 1382. A Robert
- [Roger Marshall](https://robinhoodlegend.com/roger-marshall/) - It began with the arrest of two men in Walsall (who were from Wednesbury and Dudley) for assault. Roger Marshall and three others, including a priest and a squire, with two hundred followers, (armed with bows and arrows and other weapons), assembled in Wednesbury and threatened a rescue. They were forbidden to attend Willenhall fair
- [Hobbe and John](https://robinhoodlegend.com/malefactors-york/) - Another version appears under the title of 'The Song of the Yorkshire Partisans' in The Peasants Revolt of 1381, R. B. Dobson, 1970, pp. 383-84.
- [Jakke Carter Letter](https://robinhoodlegend.com/jakke-carter-letter/) - The Peasants Revolt of 1381, R. B. Dobson, 1970, p. 382.
- [The Statutes of Kilkenny](https://robinhoodlegend.com/statutes-kilkenny/) - Thirty-five acts were promulgated five years after the arrival in Ireland of Lionel, duke of Clarence, and through his marriage to Elizabeth de Burgo, also earl of Ulster and lord of Connacht. Written in Norman French, which remained the legal language of the time, they sought to create a permanent division between the native, or "mere"
- [Sporting Magazine](https://robinhoodlegend.com/sporting-magazine/) - 76 Life of Robin Hood During the reign of King Richard the First, we find mention made of Robin Hood, at which period the intestine troubles were very great, and the country every where infested with out-laws and banditti; among whom none were so famous as this Sylvan hero and his followers, whom Stow, in his-Annals, styles renouned
- [Piers Plowman](https://robinhoodlegend.com/piers-plowman/) - For convenience, the three texts are called A, B, and C. The A text is dated to 1362-63, the B text to 1377, and the C text to about 1393. Sloth, the drunken priest, does not know his pater-noster ( Lord's Prayer, Matt. vi 9-13) perfectly as the priest sings it, but he knows rymes
- [Roberdesmen](https://robinhoodlegend.com/roberdesmen/) - * The 'Roberdesman' phrase is apparently being used in deference to Robert Ofhalle, one of the leaders in this incident.
- [The Many Robin Hoods 3](https://robinhoodlegend.com/the-many-robin-hoods-3/) - In the fourteenth century rogues and thieves were sometimes described as 'Robert's men'. In an Act of parliament in 1331, the phrase was included which referred to the 'robberies, homicides and felonies done in these times by people called Roberdesmen, Wastours and Drahlacche (Drawlatch)'.(1) Robert Lynley discovered another record of men who used the name Roberdesman. Robin
- [William Robehod](https://robinhoodlegend.com/robehod/) - David Crook discusses these Latin references in his article. William the son of Robert le Fevere from Enborne in Berkshire is indicted for various larcenies and the harbouring of thieves. He takes to flight, is outlawed, and his chattels are taken without warrant by the prior of Sandleford. The prior is pardoned by the king
- [The Many Robin Hoods 2](https://robinhoodlegend.com/the-many-robin-hoods-2/) - David Crook has discovered a record which links Robin Hood's name to a criminal who was a fugitive. William the son of Robert Le Fevere (the smith) was indicted at Reading in 1261 for larceny. In another reference to the case in 1262 his name is given as William Robehod. Professor Holt (Robin Hood, 1982, p.52)
- [More Hoods](https://robinhoodlegend.com/more-robin-hoods/) - Hood Adam Wakefield Manor 1274 Hood Henry Wakefield Manor 1274 Hood Richard Wakefield Manor 1274 Hood Richard Wakefield Manor 1275 Hood Adam Wakefield Manor 1277 Hood Adam Wakefield Manor 1285 Hood Richard Wakefield Manor 1285 Hood Adam Wakefield Manor 1286 Hood Adam Wakefield Manor 1296 Hood
- [Guide 5](https://robinhoodlegend.com/guide-5/) - Robert Ode 1330 Cat of Ancient Deeds, Lincolnshire, involved in land deed at Ferresby Robert Hode 1332 Bucks Early Taxation Returns, Buckinghamshire, lived at Turweston Robert Ode 1343 Patent Rolls, Buckinghamshire, committed arid at Querndon, Bucks Robert Hod 1346 E403/336 m. 49. messenger for Sir
- [Robert Hod Howden](https://robinhoodlegend.com/edward/)
- [Guide 4](https://robinhoodlegend.com/guide-4/) - Robert Hod 1297 Coram Rege Rolls (2 entries), Yorkshire, chattals seized for offence at Howden, due to appear before Edward I Robert Hod 1302 Originalia Rolls, Northumberland, involved in land dispute west of Newcastle Robert Hod 1303 of Crakhale (next to Bedale, North Yorkshire), murdered by Ralph of Crakhale,
- [Robert Hode Morpath](https://robinhoodlegend.com/robert-hode/)
- [Robert Hod Exchequer Rolls](https://robinhoodlegend.com/rotuli/)
- [Guide 3](https://robinhoodlegend.com/guide-3/) - Robert Hod of Linton 1263/64 Pipe Rolls, Yorkshire, under Robert de Ros heading Robert Hod 1264 Scottish Exchequer Rolls, recieving pension and robe from Alexander III Robert Hod 1268 Yorkshire Assize Roll, Yorkshire, mentioned in dispute over lands at Halsham Robert Hod 1268 Bedfordshire Plea Rolls, Bedford, a murder is committed and Robert Hod is
- [Robert Hod of Lynton](https://robinhoodlegend.com/robert-hod-fine/)
- [Robert Hod Woburn](https://robinhoodlegend.com/curia-regis-roll-90/)
- [Robert de Hodelme](https://robinhoodlegend.com/henry-ii/)
- [Robyn Hod Isle of Wight](https://robinhoodlegend.com/robyn-hod/) - Andrew Ayton(1) from the University of Hull, thought that the name Robyn Hod was significant; the garrison pay-roll (PRO, E101/21/32 m. 3.) is a Latin document of the late 1330s, which lists nearly five hundred names, including twenty-five 'Roberts'; but only one Christian name is presented in diminutive form, and that belongs to the Robyn
- [Robert Hod of Byland Abbey](https://robinhoodlegend.com/robert-hod-byland/)
- [Forest Eyre](https://robinhoodlegend.com/forest-eyre/) - The highest forest court, established by Henry II, held by itinerant forest justices, under the authority of two Chief Justices of the Forest, one for north and one for south of the river Trent, after 1238. The court was called into being by the king’s letters patent appointing justices to hear and determine pleas of
- [The Dean and Chapter of York](https://robinhoodlegend.com/chapter/) - The top two entries relate to Brian de Lisle's Forest eyre which was initially summoned to York in 1221. He was chief justice of the forest from 1221 to 1224, and sheriff of Yorkshire in 1233-4. By 1224 the men of St Peter's York and been amerced (punished by assessment or fine) at the Forest Eyre
- [Robert de Lexington](https://robinhoodlegend.com/notes-paul-brand/) - * Source can be provided.
- [Robert Hod of Cirencester](https://robinhoodlegend.com/robertus-hud/)
- [Robin Hood’s Grave 4](https://robinhoodlegend.com/robin-hoods-grave-4/) - 19th century Sir George Armytage enclosed the grave in an iron cage on a low stone wall to guard against further vandalism. By this time the slab was badly damaged and little remained. He then inserted a stone formerly lying by the side of the grave, this bore an inscription almost identical to the epitaph
- [Robin Hood’s Grave 3](https://robinhoodlegend.com/robin-hoods-grave-3/) - 1715 Ralph Thoresby in his Ducatus Leodiensis writes: 'near unto Kirklees the noted Robin Hood lies buried under a grave-stone (the slab?) that yet remains near the park, but the inscription scarce legible'. In the appendix is the following note: 'Amongst the papers of the learned Dr. Gale, late dean of Yorke, was found this epitaph
- [Robin Hood’s Grave 2](https://robinhoodlegend.com/robin-hoods-grave-2/) - 1632 At the end of Martin Parker's ballad A True Tale of Robin Hood he writes, 'the epitaph which the prioress of the monastery of Kirklees lay in Yorkshire set over Robbin Hood, which as is before mentioned, was to bee reade within these hundred yeares, though in old broken English, much to the same sence
- [Robin Hood and his Crew of Souldiers](https://robinhoodlegend.com/robin-hood-crew-souldiers/) - This political comedy was acted at Nottingham to celebrate the crowning of King Charles II at Westminster abbey on 23 April 1661. Nottingham was firmly established as the main home of Robin Hood and the authorities were keen to display their loyalty. The opportunity to convert the outlaw hero into a supporter of the new
- [The Early Ballads 4](https://robinhoodlegend.com/early-ballads-4/) - At this point, Robin has returned to the greenwood, however he receives a visit from Sir Richard’s wife, who tells him of her husband’s plight. In response, he rides into Nottingham with his merry men, rescues Sir Richard, and beheads the sheriff with the sword. Later, 'Edward our comly kynge' arrives in Nottingham; this is
- [Joseph Hunter - Robin Hood's Well](https://robinhoodlegend.com/joseph-hunter-robin-hoods/) - Joseph Hunter, South Yorkshire, Vol. 2, 1831
- [Arms – Close Up](https://robinhoodlegend.com/monk-bretton-priory-close/)
- [A History and Guide to the Parish Church of St. Michael And All Angels, Skelbrooke](https://robinhoodlegend.com/parish-church-st-michael-angels-skelbrooke/) - Compiled in 1992 by Canon Stanley K Reynolds, Former Rector of Skelbrooke* Early History In 1086, when William the Conqueror’s civil servants (if 'civil' is the right word) were collecting information for the Domesday Book, they wrote of Skelbrooke: 'One manor. Godric and Alwin had three carucates of land to be taxed, where there
- [Viaduct](https://robinhoodlegend.com/via/)
- [Map ](https://robinhoodlegend.com/ferry-map/)
- [The Legend 2](https://robinhoodlegend.com/the-legend-2/) - In the fifteenth century, minstrels were maintained in at least twenty aristocratic households in northern England. Their owners included Richard duke of Gloucester, the earls of Northumberland, Sir John Conyers, and Sir James Harrington. The monarchy was probably the biggest employer of entertainers, and in 1469 Edward IV incorporated the royal minstrels as a guild.
- [Joseph Hunter, South Yorkshire, Vol. 2](https://robinhoodlegend.com/joseph-hunter-2/)
- [Joseph Hunter, South Yorkshire, Vol. 2, (1831)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/joseph-hunter/)
- [J W Walker](https://robinhoodlegend.com/walker/) - J. W. Walker, Robin Hood Identified, Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, Volume 36, (1944)
- [Piers Venables](https://robinhoodlegend.com/piers-venables/) - Rotuli Parliamentorum, v, p. 16. (Quoted in Holt, Robin Hood, 1982, p. 150)
- [Robert Stafford](https://robinhoodlegend.com/robert-stafford/)
- [Robin Hood and the Butcher](https://robinhoodlegend.com/robin-hood-butcher-2/)
- [The Peasants' Revolt](https://robinhoodlegend.com/peasants-revolt/) - The Peasants' Revolt of June and July 1381 was one of the most dramatic events in English history. One of the main causes of the rebellion was the poll tax of 1380-81, the third such poll tax, and it was enforced by much-hated commissions of inquiry, which investigated whether all persons were complying with the
- [The Ancient Decree of Outlawry](https://robinhoodlegend.com/ancient-decree-outlawry/)
- [The Pindar of Wakefield](https://robinhoodlegend.com/pindar-wakefield/)
- [Institutes of the Laws of England](https://robinhoodlegend.com/institutes-laws-england/) - It is an English Proverb, That many men talk of Robin Hood, that never shot in his Bow: and because the Statutes and Records hereafter mentioned cannot be well understood, unless it be known what this Robin Hood was that hath railed a name to these kind of men called Robersdmen, his followers, we will
- [Robert Hoddy](https://robinhoodlegend.com/robert-hoddy/)
- [The Wars of the Roses](https://robinhoodlegend.com/wars-of-the-roses/) - A series of bloody civil wars fought between supporters of the rival houses of Lancaster and York, whose ultimate goal was the throne of England. They are generally accepted to have been fought in several spasmodic episodes between 1455 and 1487 (although there was related fighting both before and after this period). The name Wars
- [The Many Robin Hoods 9](https://robinhoodlegend.com/the-many-robin-hoods-9/) - Walker thought that Robert Hode may have been born between the years 1285 and 1295, the son of Adam Hood who appears in the Wakefield Manor Court Rolls from 1274 to 1314, and possibly a forester in the employ of the Earl of Warenne, the lord of the manor of Wakefield. Robert Hode, as Walker
- [Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, Volume 12, (1893)](https://robinhoodlegend.com/yorkshire-archaeological-journal/)
- [The Rhymes of Robin Hood 7](https://robinhoodlegend.com/rhymes-robin-hood-7/)
- [The Rhymes of Robin Hood 4](https://robinhoodlegend.com/rhymes-robin-hood-4/)
- [The Rhymes of Robin Hood 2](https://robinhoodlegend.com/rhymes-robin-hood-2/)