1743 - Treasury Warrant

Record
Date	1743
Topic	Appointment of new riding officer at Robin Hood's Town [Robin Hood's BayProperty "Alabout" (as page type) with input value "Appointment of new riding officer at Robin Hood's Town [Robin Hood's Bay" contains invalid characters or is incomplete and therefore can cause unexpected results during a query or annotation process.

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Robin Hood's Bay.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-04-15. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2020-05-17.

Record

[6 December 1743:]
Robert Hughes, tidesurveyor at Chester, loco John Poynton, deceased; John Fox, riding officer at Robin Hood's town, in Whitby port, loco Jonas Tetlay, deceased; John Woodill to succeed Pox as waiter and searcher at Reighton, in Scarborough port.

Source notes

Italics as in printed source. MS source: "Customs Book XV. p. 377". Marginal note in printed source: "Dec. 6". Note that the printed source is a calendar entry and thus does not necessarily give the full and exact wording of the original.

Lists

• 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.

Sources

• Shaw, William H., compil. Calendar of Treasury Books and Papers, 1742–1745. Preserved in the Public Record Office (London; Edinburgh; Dublin, 1908), p. 438.

Also see

• Robin Hood's Bay.

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