1733 - Hearne, Thomas - Note in Chronicon Prioratus de Dunstaple
Allusion | |
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Date | 1733 |
Author | Hearne, Thomas |
Title | Note in Chronicon sive Annales Prioratus de Dunstaple |
Mentions | Robin Hood; Robin Hood's Bower (Maidenhead) |
By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-05-29. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-06-06.
Allusion
[Joseph Ritson's translation:]
Source notes
The note in Hearne's edition is in italic type, ordinary type being used for emphasis. IRHB has reversed this. Where Hearne has black-letter, IRHB has bold type. Where Ritson uses the Old English alphabet, IRHB uses small-caps. IRHB's brackets, including ellipses where Ritson silently omits a passage.
IRHB comments
Ritson finds that "[w]hat he means by all this is, doubtless, sufficiently obscure: the mere name, however, of Robin Hoods bower seems a very feeble authority for concluding that gallant outlaw to have robed [sic] or skulked in the Chiltern hundreds".[3] Hearne certainly would not be the last writer to let fond memories of a childhood greenwood influence his speculations on the origins of Robin Hood. As he was born in 1678, we can draw the somewhat conservative conclusion that the name 'Robin Hood's Bower' was already applied to the small earthwork in Maidenhead thicket around 1690. The full names of the antiquarian Hearne refers to are John Leland and William Somner.
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.
Sources
- [Morins, Richard de]; Hearne, Thomas, ed. Chronicon sive Annales Prioratus de Dunstaple (Oxford, 1733), vol. I, p. 387 n. (contd. vol. I, pp. 388 n-389 n).
- [Ritson, Joseph, ed.] Robin Hood: A Collection of All the Ancient Poems, Songs, and Ballads, now Extant, Relative to that Celebrated English Outlaw, to Which are Prefixed Historical Anecdotes of His Life (London, 1795), vol. I, p. ci n. † (contd. vol. I, p. cii n.)
Background
- Wikipedia: John Leland (antiquary)
- Wikipedia: Thomas Hearne (antiquarian)
- Wikipedia: William Somner.
Studies and criticism
- Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), p. 295, s.n. Robin Hood's Arbour.
Also see
- Robin Hood's Arbour (Maidenhead)
- 1535 - Leland, John - Itinerary (1)
- 1535 - Leland, John - Itinerary (2)
- 1535 - Leland, John - Itinerary (3)
- 1540 - Leland, John - Collectanea.
Notes
- ↑ Read: lurked.
- ↑ [Morins, Richard de]; Hearne, Thomas, ed. Chronicon sive Annales Prioratus de Dunstaple (Oxford, 1733), vol. I, p. 387 n. (contd. vol. I, pp. 388 n-389 n); [Ritson, Joseph, ed.] Robin Hood: A Collection of All the Ancient Poems, Songs, and Ballads, now Extant, Relative to that Celebrated English Outlaw, to Which are Prefixed Historical Anecdotes of His Life (London, 1795), vol. I, p. ci n. † (contd. vol. I, p. cii n.)
- ↑ [Ritson, Joseph, ed.] Robin Hood: A Collection of All the Ancient Poems, Songs, and Ballads, now Extant, Relative to that Celebrated English Outlaw, to Which are Prefixed Historical Anecdotes of His Life (London, 1795), vol. I, p. cii n. Ritson's italics; IRHB's brackets.