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 MSS
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 147⅚), p. 4.
“Comys Robin Hode and presents in xxxiij _s._ iv _d_.” 148⅔ (for 148½),
p. 10.
“Ric. Willes was Roben Hode, and presents in for yere past xxiij _s._”
148¾ (for 148⅔), 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 148⅚), p. 14.
“Robyn Hode presents in xlvj _s._ viij. _d._” 149⅘ (for 149¾), 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 162⅘ (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
potuto sentire ripetere i canti epici che celebrano le imprese di famosi
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.)