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By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-07-09. Revised by … Robin Hood and the Bishop of Hereford is an 18th century broadside ballad known in two versions, one in 16 stanzas, the other, more condensed, in just 11 stanzas. As Child notes, Child, Francis James 1882a, vol. III, p. 194. the Bishop of Hereford is also a character in the ballad of Robin Hood and Queen Katherine (Child 145), where he remembers how Robin Hood made him sing mass and extracted an enforced loan from him. the earliest broadside prints of this ballad are from c. 1750, while the MS containing the B version has been dated to c. 1730, a dating Child feels is uncertain. According to Chappell it was the most popular Robin Hood ballad in the mid-19th century. Chappell, William 1855a, vol. II, p. 395. Plot the Bishop of Hereford will be passing through Barnsdale. Robin Hood orders his men to kill a deer: the Bishop is going to dine with him and pay exorbitantly for it. Dressed as shepherds, Robin and six of his men …

Short introduction We hope that this wiki will in due course come to live up to its somewhat grand name. It is called 'International' because in addition to the vast amount of material that exists in English, we intend to add information about materials in other languages such as translations of ballads, secondary literature, children's fiction, literature on foreign analogues of Robin Hood etc. Arguably 'Bibliography' is a misnomer as the site already includes a wealth of all sorts of information one would not nor­mally expect to find in a biblio­gra­phy, but the biblio­gra­phical aspect is in all cases taken quite seriously, and there is already a wiki named the Robin Hood Wiki, so another name had to be found for the site. Latest news NEW subsite: IRHB Editions, currently with a single edition: A Gest of Robyn Hode ⁃ 2024-03-12: All tithe awards for the following English counties have now been searched for Robin Hood-related place names: …