1831 - Lewis, Samuel - Topographical Dictionary of England (06)

Allusion
Date	1831
Author	Lewis, Samuel
Title	A Topographical Dictionary of England, comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsey, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions
Mentions	Little John's Grave (Hathersage); Robin Hood

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Little John's Grave in Hathersage churchyard.

Little John's Grave, woodcut by F.W. Fairholt, from Gutch, John Mathew, ed. A Lytell Geste of Robin Hode, with Other Ancient & Modern Ballads and Songs relating to this Celebrated Yeoman (London, 1847) via review by F.W.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-05-30. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-05-30.

Allusion

 KIRK-LEES, a hamlet in that part of the parish of Dewsbury which is in the wapentake of Morley, West riding of the county of York, 5 miles (N. N. E.) from Huddersfield. The population is returned with the parish. Here was a Cistercian nunnery, erected in the reign of Henry II., by Reynerus Flandrensis, and dedicated to the Virgin and St. James, the revenue of which, at the suppression, was valv.ed at £20. 7. 8.: the celebrated Robin Hood was buried here, where his tomb is yet to be seen.

Source notes

Capitals and small caps as in printed source.

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

• Lewis, Samuel, compil. A Topographical Dictionary of England, comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsey, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions (London, 1831), vol. II, p. 538, s.n. Kirk-lees
  • Lewis, Samuel, compil. A Topographical Dictionary of England, comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsey, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions. Second Edition (London, 1833). Not seen
  • Lewis, Samuel, compil. A Topographical Dictionary of England, comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsey, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions. Third Edition (London, 1835); see vol. II (unpag.), s.n. Kirk-lees
  • Lewis, Samuel, compil. A Topographical Dictionary of England, comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsey, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions. Fourth Edition (London, 1840); see vol. II, p. 584, s.n. Kirk-lees
  • Lewis, Samuel, compil. A Topographical Dictionary of England, comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsey, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions. Fifth Edition (London, 1845). Not seen
  • Lewis, Samuel, compil. A Topographical Dictionary of England, comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsey, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions. Seventh Edition (London, 1848); see vol. II, p. 700, s.n. Kirklees. Passage on Robin Hood's Grave expanded. See 1848 - Lewis, Samuel - Topographical Dictionary of England.

Background

• Wikipedia: Kirklees
• Wikipedia: Samuel Lewis (publisher).

Also see

• 1831 - Lewis, Samuel - Topographical Dictionary of England (03)
• 1831 - Lewis, Samuel - Topographical Dictionary of England (04)
• 1831 - Lewis, Samuel - Topographical Dictionary of England (05)
• 1831 - Lewis, Samuel - Topographical Dictionary of England (14)
• 1835 - Lewis, Samuel - Topographical Dictionary of England
• 1848 - Lewis, Samuel - Topographical Dictionary of England
• Little John's Grave (Hathersage).

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