1354 - Robert Hod imprisoned at Rockingham

Record
Date	1354
Topic	Robert Hod imprisoned at Rokyngham for trespass of vert and venison in the Forest of Rockingham,

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Rockingham.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-11-19. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-01-08.

Record

[16 May 1354:]
To Thomas de Brewes, keeper of the Forest this side Trent or to him who supplies his place in the forest of Rokyngham. Order to bail Robert Hod, imprisoned at Rokyngham for trespass of vert and venison in the forest of Rokyngham, if he shall find twelve mainpernors of that bailiwick who will undertake to have him before the justices next in eyre for pleas of the Forest in the county of Northampton, to stand to right for the said trespass, if he is repleviable according to the assize of the Forest.^[1]

Source notes

Membrane 19 of the Close Roll for 28 Edward III. Marginal note: "May 16. Westminster".

Lists

Not included in Sussex, Lucy, compil. 'References to Robin Hood up to 1600', in: Knight, Stephen. Robin Hood: A Complete Study of the English Outlaw (Oxford, UK; Cambridge, Massachusetts: Blackwell, 1994), pp. 262-88.

Sources

[Hinds, Allen B., ed.; Bird, W.H.B., ed.; Maxwell-Lyte, Henry Churchill, introd.]. Calendar of the Close Rolls preserved in the Public record Office: Edward III. Vol. X. A.D. 1354-1360 (London, 1908), p. 23.

Discussion

Bird, W. H. B. 'Robin Hood', The Times Literary Supplement (26 May 1927), p. 375.

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Notes

↑ [Hinds, Allen B., ed.; Bird, W.H.B., ed.; Maxwell-Lyte, Henry Churchill, introd.]. Calendar of the Close Rolls preserved in the Public record Office: Edward III. Vol. X. A.D. 1354-1360 (London, 1908), p. 23.

Records links1301-1400texts

[1] [Hinds, Allen B., ed.; Bird, W.H.B., ed.; Maxwell-Lyte, Henry Churchill, introd.]. Calendar of the Close Rolls preserved in the Public record Office: Edward III. Vol. X. A.D. 1354-1360 (London, 1908), p. 23.

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