1577 - Holinshed, Raphael - Chronicles (1)

From International Robin Hood Bibliography
Allusion
Date 1577
Author Holinshed, Raphael
Title Holinshed's Chronicles
Mentions Robin Hood's Bay

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-05-17. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-01-07.

Allusion

There is also a creke on eche side of Robin Whoods bay, of whose names and courses, I haue no skil sauing that Fillingale the towne doth stand betwene them both.[1]

Source notes

I have silently replaced long 's' by ordinary 's', 'J' by 'I'. The passage recurs, with only trivial changes of spelling, in the 1587 edition:

There is also a créeke on each side of Robin Whoodes baie, of whose names and courses I haue no skill, sauing that Fillingale the towne dooth stand betwéene them both. [2]

Readers wishing to look up passages cited on IRHB in the original editions should be careful to note the book and chapter names etc. cited in IRHB's source references. The collations of the 1577 and 1587 editions of Holinshed are unusually confused, some sequences being paginated, some having leaf numbers, some neither. Note also that although the 1577 edition is in four volumes and that of 1587 in six, they were often bound (issued?) in two, respectively three, volumes. This is often reflected in PDFs of early editions.

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