1598 - Favour, John - Letter to John Savile

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Halifax Minster.

Halifax Minster, formerly Halifax parish church, dedicated to St. John the Baptist / [J.W: Holdsworth, 7 Sep. 2009, Creative Commons via Wikipedia.]

By {{subst:#realname:Henryfunk}}, {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}-{{subst:CURRENTMONTH}}-{{subst:CURRENTDAY2}}. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-10-29. Allusion, background materials and comments kindly provided by Robert Lynley.

Allusion

[Letter from John Favour, vicar of Halifax, to John Savile, esq., one of the Barons of the Exchequer, asking him] to take order for punishing one Robert Smyth, commonly called Robin Hood, that hath bene a long tyme a sorcerer and a ffortune-teller, a blasphemer of God, and a seducer of poor people, ignorant but passing obstinate and wilful: getting of servants and children both monye and apparell to tell fortunes, and so following all ffayres and marketts — one of the first order of rogues, and so to be punished. The canons of the Church severely censuring such men[.] Dated Halifax this 7th day of August. 1598.

Source notes

IRHB comments

Lists

• Not included 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.

Editions

• Walker, Walter James 1885; see p. 6.

Background

• Wikipedia: Halifax Minster.

Notes

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  Halifax Minster, formerly Halifax parish church, dedicated to St. John the Baptist / [J.W: Holdsworth, 7 Sep. 2009, Creative Commons via Wikipedia.]