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Allusion
Date	1524
Author	Wolsey, Thomas
Title	Letter to Duke of Norfolk
Mentions	Robin Hood's Cross (Aunby)

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Site of Spur Bridge, not far from which Robin Hood's Cross may have stood.

Cardinal Wolsey by Sampson Strong (from Wikipedia).

Thomas Howard, third Duke of Norfolk by Hans Holbein the Younger (from Wikipedia).

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-08-16. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2022-12-03.

Allusion

Being redy to fynishe this letter, arrived the post with your letters written on Robyn Hoddes Crosse, and such as were sent to you bothe from the King and Quene of Scottes, thErle [sic] of Aran, and also the Lord Dacres [...]^[1]

IRHB comments

Brackets added by IRHB. The recipient of this letter from Cardinal Wolsey was Thomas Howard, third Duke of Norfolk (1473-1554) (whose father, the 2nd duke, had just died in May of 1524). This rather long letter which runs to seven pages of printed text was begun July 29th to 31st and finished on August 1 (pp. 85, 92). For an attempt to locate the site of the cross, see Robin Hood's Cross (Aunby).

Sources

Anonymous, ed. State Papers Published under the Authority of His Majesty's Commission, vol. IV: King Henry the Eighth, pt. IV ([s.l.], 1836), p. 90.

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.

Background

Also see

Notes

↑ Anonymous, ed. State Papers Published under the Authority of His Majesty's Commission, vol. IV: King Henry the Eighth, pt. IV ([s.l.], 1836), p. 90.

Allusions links1501-1600texts

[1] Anonymous, ed. State Papers Published under the Authority of His Majesty's Commission, vol. IV: King Henry the Eighth, pt. IV ([s.l.], 1836), p. 90.

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 {{quote|&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Being redy to fynishe this letter, arrived the post with your letters written on <keyword>Robyn Hoddes Crosse</keyword>, and such as were sent to you bothe from the King and Quene of Scottes, thErle [''sic''] of Aran, and also the Lord Dacres [...]<ref>{{:Anonymous 1836a}}, p. 90.</ref>}}</onlyinclude>
 == IRHB comments ==
-Brackets added by IRHB. The recipient of this letter from Cardinal Wolsey was Thomas Howard, third Duke of Norfolk (1473-1554) (whose father, the 2nd duke, had just died in May of 1524). This rather long letter which runs to seven pages of printed text was begun July 29th to 31st and finished on August 1 (pp. 85, 92.) For the location of Robin Hood's Cross, [[Robin Hood's Cross (Aunby)|see the entry on that place-name]].
+Brackets added by IRHB. The recipient of this letter from Cardinal Wolsey was Thomas Howard, third Duke of Norfolk (1473-1554) (whose father, the 2nd duke, had just died in May of 1524). This rather long letter which runs to seven pages of printed text was begun July 29th to 31st and finished on August 1 (pp. 85, 92). For an attempt to locate the site of the cross, see [[Robin Hood's Cross (Aunby)]].
 == Sources ==