1539 - Dodsworth, Roger - Notes
| Allusion | |
|---|---|
| Date | Before 1535 |
| Author | Dodsworth, Roger |
| Title | Notes |
| Mentions | Robin Hood's Well (near Barnsdale) |
By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-07-05. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2014-06-18.
Allusion
At Himsworth there be 2 or 3 litle springs which meeting together make a small current, & come to South Kirkby (a towne pleasantly seated where the family of the Tregotts haue a long time liued in good reputation), by Elmsall where Wentworth hath his mansion, haueing long since descended out of Wentworth Woodhouse, & by marriage of the daughter and heire of . . . . Biset haue good Lands in this Tract from whom the Lo. Wentworth descended. Thence it goeth to Hampull a house of Nunns [...] nere vnto wch place St. Richard the Hermit liued, from hence to Robbin- [p. 12:] hood-well wch J rather take to be the Hermit's well near Adwicke in the Street, And through Bentley by Arksey, & falleth into Dun at Wheatley.[1]
IRHB comments
Roger Dodsworth (1585–1654) engaged in antiquarian research from an early age, but hardly so early that this note pre-dates the turn of the 17th century, one supposes. The source he cited or paraphrased must belong to the period before the Dissolution, for "Thence it goeth to Hampull a house of Nunns" would hardly be a natural sentence after the Monasteries had been dissolved. Accordingly I date the allusion to the period before February 1535 when the act dissolving the Minor monasteries was passed. A.H. Smith dates Dodsworth's note to the 16th century.[2]
Editions
Lists
- Not in Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), pp. 315-19.
- 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.
Brief mention
- Smith, A.H. 'Robin Hood', Modern Language Review, vol. 28 (1933), pp. 484-85.
- Smith, A.H. The Place-Names of the West Riding of Yorkshire (English Place-Name Society, vols. XXX-XXXVII) (Cambridge, 1961-63).
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