1587 - Holinshed, Raphael - Chronicles (2)
| Allusion | |
|---|---|
| Date | 1587 |
| Author | Holinshed, Raphael |
| Title | Holinshed's Chronicles |
| Mentions | Henry VIII and eleven others enter queen's chamber dressed as Robin Hood's men, equipped with bows and arrows, swords and bucklers. They perform certain dances and pastimes |
By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-05-19. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-01-07.
Allusion
[...] The king soone after came to Westminster, and there kept his Shrouetide with great bankettings, dansings, and other iollie pastimes.
And on a time the king in person, accompanied with the earles of Essex, Wiltshire and other noble men, to the number of twelue, came suddenlie in a morning into the queenes chamber, all apparelled in short coates of Kentish Kendall, with hoodes on their heads & hosen of the same, euerie one of them his bow and arrowes, and a sword and a buckler, like outlawes, or Robin Hoods men. Whereat the queene, the ladies, and all other there were abashed, as well for the strange sight, as also for their sudden comming, and after certeine danses and pastime made, they departed. On Shrouesundaie the same yeare, the king prepared a goodlie banket in the parlement chamber at Westminster, for all the ambassadors, which then were here out of diuerse realmes and countries. [...][1]
Source notes
The passage occurs under the year 1510.[2]. Marginal note against line beginning "And on a time": "Edw. Hall in H.8.fol.vj. The king with other nobles disguised like Robin hoods men for disport"; against line beginning "yeare, the king prepared": "banket". I have silently omitted hyphens that occur at line endings. The second paragraph cited above is not found in the 1577 edition of Holinshed's Chronicles.
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.
Lists
- Not included in Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), pp. 293-11.
- Outside scope of 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.
Editions
- Holinshed, Raphael; [Wolfe, Reyner]; [Fleming, Abraham]; [Thynne, Francis]; [Stow, John]. The first and second volumes of Chronicles, comprising 1 The description and historie of England, 2 The description and historie of Ireland, 3 The description and historie of Scotland: first collected and published by Raphaell Holinshed, William Harrison, and others: now newlie augmented and continued (with manifold matters of singular note and worthie memorie) to the yeare 1586. by Iohn Hooker aliàs Vowell Gent. and others. With conuenient tables at the end of these volumes ([London], [1587]), vol. VI, p. 805.
- Holinshed, Raphael; [Wolfe, Reyner]; [Harrison, William]; [Hooker, John]; [Fleming, Abraham]; [Thynne, Francis]; [Stow, John]; [Stanyhurst, Richard]; [Ellis, Henry, ed.] Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland (London, 1807-1808), vol. III, p. 554.
- The Holinshed Project: The Texts.
Background
Also see
- Westminster festivals
- Chronicles
- 1577 - Holinshed, Raphael - Chronicles (1)
- 1577 - Holinshed, Raphael - Chronicles (2)
- 1577 - Holinshed, Raphael - Chronicles (3)
- 1577 - Holinshed, Raphael - Chronicles (4)
- 1577 - Holinshed, Raphael - Chronicles (5)
- 1587 - Holinshed, Raphael - Chronicles (1)
- 1587 - Holinshed, Raphael - Chronicles (3)
- 1587 - Holinshed, Raphael - Chronicles (4).
Notes
- ↑ Holinshed, Raphael; [Wolfe, Reyner]; [Fleming, Abraham]; [Thynne, Francis]; [Stow, John]. The first and second volumes of Chronicles, comprising 1 The description and historie of England, 2 The description and historie of Ireland, 3 The description and historie of Scotland: first collected and published by Raphaell Holinshed, William Harrison, and others: now newlie augmented and continued (with manifold matters of singular note and worthie memorie) to the yeare 1586. by Iohn Hooker aliàs Vowell Gent. and others. With conuenient tables at the end of these volumes ([London], [1587]), vol. VI, p. 805.
- ↑ Holinshed, Raphael; [Wolfe, Reyner]; [Fleming, Abraham]; [Thynne, Francis]; [Stow, John]. The first and second volumes of Chronicles, comprising 1 The description and historie of England, 2 The description and historie of Ireland, 3 The description and historie of Scotland: first collected and published by Raphaell Holinshed, William Harrison, and others: now newlie augmented and continued (with manifold matters of singular note and worthie memorie) to the yeare 1586. by Iohn Hooker aliàs Vowell Gent. and others. With conuenient tables at the end of these volumes ([London], [1587]), vol. VI, p. 805, marginal note.