P. 40 ff. Thomas Robinhood is one of six witnesses to a grant in the 4th of Richard II. (June 22, 1380 - June 21, 1381). See Historical Manuscripts Commission, Fifth Report, Appendix, p. 511, col. 2. The pronunciation, Robinhood (p. 41 a, note †), is clearly seen in the jingle quoted by Nash, Strange Newes, 1593, Works, ed. Grosart, II, 230: "Ah, neighbourhood, neighbourhood, Dead and buried art thou with Robinhood."
Among the disbursements of John Lord Howard, afterwards Duke of Norfolk, occurs the following: "And the same day, my Lord paide to Robard Hoode for viij. shafftys xvj. d." (This is Friday, Sept. 26, 1483.) Household Books of John Duke of Norfolk and Thomas Earl of Surrey, temp. 1481-1490, ed. by J.P. Collier, 1844, Roxburghe Club, p. 464. Collier, p. 525, remarks that "the coincidence that the duke bought them of a person of the name of Robin Hood is singular."
The Crosscombe Church-Wardens' Accounts (in Church-Wardens' Accounts of Croscombe, Pilton, Yatton, etc., ranging from 1349 to 1560, ed. by Right Rev. Bishop Hobhouse, Somerset Record Soc. Publications, IV, 1890):
"Comes Thomas Blower and John Hille, and presents in xl s. of Roben Hod's recones." 147 6/7 (accounts for 147 5/6), p. 4.
"Comys Robin Hode and presents in xxxiij s. iv d." 148 2/5 (for 148 1/2), p. 10.
"Ric. Willes was Roben Hode, and presents in for yere past xxiij s." 148 3/4 (for 148 2/3), p. 11.
"Comys Robyn Hode, Wyllyam Wyndylsor, and presents in for the yere paste iij l. vj s. viij d. ob." 148 6/7 (for 148 5/6), p. 14.
"Robyn Hode presents in xlvj s. viij. d." 149 4/5 (for 149 3/4), p. 20.
And so of later years.
A pasture called Robynhode Closse is mentioned in the Chamberlains' Accounts of the town of Nottingham in 1485, 1486, and 1500: Records of the Borough of Nottingham, III, 64, 230, 254. A Robynhode Well near the same town is mentioned in a presentment at the sessions of July 20, 1500 (III, 74), and again in 1548 as Robyn's Wood Well (IV, 441). Robin Hood's Acre is mentioned in 162 4/5 (IV, 441). Robbin-hoodes Wele is mentioned in Jack of Dover, his Quest of Inquirie, 1604, Hazlitt, Jest-Books, II, 315. (The above by G.L.K.)
49 b. Italian robber-songs. "Sulle piazze romane e napoletane ognuno ha potato sentire ripetere i canti epici che celebrano le imprese di fainosi banditi o prepotenti, Meo Pataca, Mastrilli, Frà Diavolo:" Cantù, Documenti alla Storia universale (1858), V, 891.
53 a. Note on 243-47. The same incident in The Jests of Scogin, Hazlitt's Jest-Books, II, 151. (G.L.K.)
53 f., 519 a. See also the traditional story how Bishop Forbes, of Corse, lent his brother a thousand marks on the security of God Almighty, in The Scotsman's Library, by James Mitchell, 1825, p. 576. (W. Macmath.)
41 b, third paragraph, second line. Read Manuscript for Mr.
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