P. 40 b. References to Robin Hood in the 15th century.
Reply of Friar Dow Topias, in Wright's Poetical Poems and Songs relating to English History, II, 59, dated by Wright 1401, which may be rather too early. The proverbial phrase shows that Robin Hood had long been familiar to the English People.
P. 43, note §. Right-hitting Brand is one of the attendants of Robin in A. Munday's Metropolis Coronata (1615), Fairholt, Pageants, I, 40. J.M. Manly.
52 and note. See further on Le prêt miraculeusement remboursé, M. René Basset, in Revue des Traditions populaires, IX, 14-31.
54. Mr. Macmath has sent me a transcript of another copy of the song in Deuteromelia which exhibits some variations. It was found April 5, 1895, in a bundle of papers that had belonged to John, Duke of Roxburghe. This copy is in a 17th century hand, and at the end is written: "This song was esteemed an old song before the rebellion broke out in 1641."
76, st. 412. The first two verses should be corrected according to f, g, thus:
49 a, 12th line. Read alcaldes.
51 b, last two lines. Read (extracted from Histoire Litt. de la France, XXX), p. 49.
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