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High Street, Bedford, where the Robin Hood was located. By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-12-20. Revised by … Record Source notes Item No. 42. IRHB comments See Robin Hood (Bedford). Lists ⁃ Outside scope of Sussex, Lucy 1994a. Also see ⁃ Robin Hood (Bedford). Notes

Site of Robin Hood on High Holborn. By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-06-16. Revised by … … edition. IRHB comments There were (at least) three public houses named the Robin Hood in Holborn: one in Leather Lane, the other in the now lost Robin Hood Court, and that at 281 High Holborn. In the full case summary there is mention of the Great Turnstile, Bedford Row, Red Lion-street and Holborn. Given this neighbourHood, pubs in question must be the last of the three. Lists ⁃ Not included in Sussex, Lucy 1994a. Sources ⁃ Proceedings of the Old Bailey: 20 Aug. 1849. Also see ⁃ 1757 - Proceedings of the Old Bailey ⁃ 1786 - Proceedings of the Old Bailey (2) ⁃ 1819 - Proceedings of the Old Bailey (2) ⁃ 1849 - Proceedings of the …

Southampton, the homeport of the Petit John. By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2019-04-22. Revised by … The Petit John was a royal ship, of a type known as a balinger or ballinger, whose homeport was Southampton. Figuring in the Records from 1416 to 1423, this is the oldest vessel known to have been named 'Little John'. In his review of the work in which the Records are found – they are cited below – J. R. Maddicott noted, as if this … accounts of a ship called the Little John, a rare and early allusion to the Robin Hood ballads'. Maddicott, John Robert 1982a. Apart from a few printed in appendixes the Records are in fact inventories, not accounts, and not only can the bare mention of the name 'Little John' not be taken as an allusion to ballads, it is in fact also doubtful if the vessel was named after the traditional character, something Maddicott could hardly have failed to notice …

Approximate location of Robin Hood Street Close, which probably covered all or part of the combined area of the four Robin Hood closes listed in the record. By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2020-08-21. Revised by … Record [1791:] 83 Stanley, admission of JOSEPH ARMYTAGE of the Lodge, par Wakefield, esq, took from the Lord of the Manor premises lately seized into the hands of the Lord of the Manor because ARMYTAGE by his indenture of demise of 26 Oct 1790 had demised, granted and let them to farm to John Lee of Wakefield, gent, from [25 Oct 1790] for the term of 21 years without a fine, without a licence from the court, in contempt of the Lord of the Manor and contrary to the custom of the Manor. This was found by a sworn inquest at a Court Baron of Wakefield on 26 Nov 1790 and presented and on proclamation published in three Wakefield courts [see Stanley Proclamations, 17 Dec 1790, 7 and 28 Jan by custom that should any person acknowledge he holds the premises of the Lord of the …

Middlesex. By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-11-16. Revised by … Record [26 July 1374:] Commission to John Boterwyk, sheriff of Middlesex, David de Berdevill, Henry Traynel, John de Salesbury and John Bysouth, seqeants-at-mace, to arrest Robert Cavendyssh, John Hidigham, Thomas Branton, John Wespray, Simon Bereford, John Morewell, Richard Norhampton, John Peyk, Richard Ivy, Walter Guldeford, Robert Spelyng, John Halys, William Michel, John Hamstede, John Faucon, John Taryn, Thomas Fakenam, Robert Anton, John Grandon, William Bysude, William Ledys, Gilbert Forester, Thomas Pope, John Brokelee, John Walche, John Stalbrigge, John Orby, John West, John Kent, Benedict Wade, William Barton, John Woleward, Nicholas Kembere, William Catisby, Robert Aston, [p. 490:] Robert Nely, Simon Bucell, Henry Biriount, John Lane, Walter Wynchestre, Nicholas Nettilham, John Sharp, John Wolwirton, John Brandon, John Someri, John Lilie, Nicholas Neubolt, Roger Lucas, Simon Vinur, Richard Fitekyn, …