1618 - Robin Hood's Elm (Woodstock)

Record
Date	1618
Topic	Robin Hood's Elm, Oxford Street [Woodstock, Oxfordshire]

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By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-09-21. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-01-08.

Record

Of widdowe White for an ould asshe digged upp at Symon Colliers dore and for the lopp of twoe other litle trees thereby	0 7 0
Of Thomas Love for the shrewde of the trees in the almeshouse backside and of the tree before the almeshouse dore	0 25 0
Of Thomas Heathen and Richard Reade for the shrewde of Robbine Whodes elme in Oxford Street	0 26 0
[...] Of WIlliam Holloway gent for the shrewde of the elme before Mr Brownes dores	0 6 8
Of Merriall Tayler for the shrewde of a litle elme before Thomas Gees dore	0 2 6
Of William Archer for the shrewde of the elme at John Lowes the coopers dore	0 15 0^[1]

Source notes

IRHB's brackets. The MS source is Woodstock Chamberlains' Accounts for 20 Dec. 1617 – 21 Dec. 1618, drawn up at the latter date. The items cited are receipts.^[2]

IRHB comments

For discussion, see the page on Robin Hood's Elm (Woodstock).

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

Maslen, Marjorie, ed.; [Schwarz, Conny, transcr.]; [Day, Christopher, introd.] Woodstock Chamberlains' Accounts, 1609-50 (Oxford Record Society, vol. 58) (1993), p. 71.

Background

Wikipedia: Woodstock, Oxfordshire.

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Notes

Records links1601-1700texts

[1] Maslen, Marjorie, ed.; [Schwarz, Conny, transcr.]; [Day, Christopher, introd.] Woodstock Chamberlains' Accounts, 1609-50 (Oxford Record Society, vol. 58) (1993), p. 71.

[2] Maslen, Marjorie, ed.; [Schwarz, Conny, transcr.]; [Day, Christopher, introd.] Woodstock Chamberlains' Accounts, 1609-50 (Oxford Record Society, vol. 58) (1993), p. 71.

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