1535 - Leland, John - Itinerary (3)

Allusion
Date	c. 1535-43
Author	Leland, John
Title	Itinerary
Mentions	Robin Hood's Cross (Castle Bytham)

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Scarborough to Robin Hood's Bay.

Bust of John Leland (from Leland, John; Smith, Lucy Toulmin, ed. The Itinerary of John Leland in or about the Years 1535-1543 (London, 1906-10), vol. I, plate facing p. 36).

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-07-17. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2022-12-03.

Allusion

From Coly Weston to Grimesthorpe about an 8. miles or 9. most by playn ground, good of corne and pasture, but litle wood, saving about toward Vauldey Abbay, and Grimes- thorp self. A good mile after that I cam out of Stanford I passid over a stone bridge under the which ran a praty river. I toke it for Wasch: and here I markid that cummyng a litle oute of Staunford I enterid ynto a corner of Ruthe- landshire, and so went a 3. miles onto such tyme as I cam to a forde, wher ran a bek rysing at a place not far of caullid Haly Welle, as one there dyd telle me. This bek there devideth Rutheland from Lyncolnshire: and a 2. miles of I saw Castelle Bitham, wher yet remayne great waulles of buildinge. Litle Bitham a village ys hard thereby, booth in Lincolnshir as yn the egge of it. The Lord Husey was a late lord of Bitham Castelle. A litle of Bitham risit of certen springes a broket, and about the ford that I spake of afore joynith with the broke that devidith the shires, and not far [of] is Robyn Hudde's Cros, a limes [of the] shires.

IRHB comments

This entry in John Leland's Itinerary was written sometime in the years c. 1535-43.

Editions

• Leland, John; Smith, Lucy Toulmin, ed. The Itinerary of John Leland in or about the Years 1535-1543 (London, 1906-10), vol. I, p. 23.

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.
• 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.

Also see

• Robin Hood's Cross (Castle Bytham)
• 1535 - Leland, John - Itinerary (1)
• 1535 - Leland, John - Itinerary (2)
• 1535 - Leland, John - Itinerary (4)
• 1540 - Leland, John - Collectanea.

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