Ed de Moel

Child Ballads - Brief Description by George Lyman Kittredge

144. Robin Hood and the Bishop of Hereford

The conclusion of this ballad is to the same effect as that of the preceding, and was probably suggested by the Gest. No copy has been found in print or writing earlier than the eighteenth century; a fact of no special importance. Whenever written, if written it was, it is far superior to most of the seventeenth century broadsides.

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