Little John (Portsmouth)

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Portsmouth

[[File:|thumb|right|500px|No pirates in sight at the beach in Portsmouth / Google Earth Street View.]]

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-11-06. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2020-05-16.

The "Littell John of Portesmouth", a balinger, was involved in piracy or at any rate the illegal confiscation of a vessel and its cargo in 1451. See the record cited below.Template:PnItemQry

Gazetteers

• 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.

Background

• Wikipedia: Balinger.

Notes

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