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- By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-07-28. Revised by … Tradesman's token of Roger Dickinson of Robin Hood's Bay. The token is heart-shaped with, on the obverse, the words "Roger. DICKINSON" and an image of Robin Hood and Little John with bows and arrows; on the reverse: "OF. ROBIN. HOOD. BAY" and "HIS HALF PENY". Date: 1669. Boyne, W 1884a, see p. 131 and plate p. 126. Sources ⁃ Boyne, W 1884a; see p. 131 and plate p. 126. Notes1 KB (162 words) - 22:50, 1 June 2022
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- By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-07-28. Revised by … Tradesman's token of Roger Dickinson of Robin Hood's Bay. The token is heart-shaped with, on the obverse, the words "Roger. DICKINSON" and an image of Robin Hood and Little John with bows and arrows; on the reverse: "OF. ROBIN. HOOD. BAY" and "HIS HALF PENY". Date: 1669. Boyne, W 1884a, see p. 131 and plate p. 126. Sources ⁃ Boyne, W 1884a; see p. 131 and plate p. 126. Notes1 KB (162 words) - 22:50, 1 June 2022
- Robin Hood's Bay. By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-08-07. Revised by … Entry based in part on information from Robert Lynley. Robin Hood's Bay is the name of a bay on the North Yorkshire coast, 8 km south of Whitby, as well as a picturesque village on the north side of the bay. Cited as "Robyn Oeds Bay" in a letter sent from the count of Flanders to a King Edward (probably Edward II, possibly Edward III) some time in the period 1324–46 (see Allusions below), Robin Hood's Bay is the earliest recorded of all Robin Hood place-names. Fishing was the main industry at Robin Hood's Bay until World War I, but already then this little picturesque town by the sea had become something of a tourist magnet. It is now a summer holiday resort for well-heeled Englishmen. The local colloquial name for the town is simply Bay; Pease, Alfred Edward 1928a, Appendix IV (unpaginated). on early 20th century postcards – of which there are a substantial number – it can be found …19 KB (2,834 words) - 01:21, 31 May 2021
- 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: …36 KB (4,936 words) - 11:49, 22 March 2024