1899 - Halliwell, Sutcliffe - By Moor and Fell (3)
Allusion | |
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Date | 1899 |
Author | Sutcliffe, Halliwell |
Title | By Moor and Fell in West Yorkshire |
Mentions | Robin Hood |
By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-08-15. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-01-17.
Allusion
The star-loving Shepherd Lord [Henry, 10th Lord Clifford (1454-1523)], whose father had been wedded to the shambles, is followed in his turn by a son whose tastes are remote at once from study of the stars and from blood-thirstiness. A buck, a robber of abbots, a gipsy ne'er-do-weel, in his younger days, this eleventh Lord of Skipton [Henry, 11th Lord Clifford, 1st Earl of Cumberland (1493-1542)]. He was educated with Henry the Eighth when both were pleasure-loving youths; and the [p. 220:] King's jovial friendship led him into revelries which, as the Shepherd Lord laments in one of the saddest letters ever a father penned, were little in keeping with the means of a poor baron's son. Then our gallant, unable to keep up his expenditure in any other way, turned Robin Hood, gathered a band of like-minded youths about him, and kept the countryside awake. Monasteries, fat villages, stray travellers — all was fish that came to their net. But most of all they loved to hunt the fallow deer, and young Clifford's reputation as an archer was known as far as London town.[1]
Lists
- Not included in Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), pp. 293-11.
- 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
- Sutcliffe, Halliwell. By Moor and Fell: Landscapes and Lang-Settle Lore from West Yorkshire (London, 1899), pp. 219-20.
Also see
- 1899 - Halliwell, Sutcliffe - By Moor and Fell (1)
- 1899 - Halliwell, Sutcliffe - By Moor and Fell (2)
- 1899 - Halliwell, Sutcliffe - By Moor and Fell (4)
- Robin Hood's Well (Stanbury)
- Little John's Well (Stanbury)
- Will Scarlet's Well (Stanbury)
- Sherwood Forest
- Little John's Grave (Hathersage).
Notes