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[[File:robin-hood-court-st-clement-danes-richard-horwood-romantic london.jpg|thumb|right|500px|The Robin Hood and Little John was probably located in the area indicated by the red arrow / Adapted from Richard Horwood's ''Plan of the Cities of London and Westminster'' (1792-99) at [http://www.romanticlondon.org/maps/fullscreen/layer/17/#18/51.51357/-0.11388 Romantic London.]]]<div class="no-img"> | [[File:robin-hood-court-st-clement-danes-richard-horwood-romantic london.jpg|thumb|right|500px|The Robin Hood and Little John was probably located in the area indicated by the red arrow / Adapted from Richard Horwood's ''Plan of the Cities of London and Westminster'' (1792-99) at [http://www.romanticlondon.org/maps/fullscreen/layer/17/#18/51.51357/-0.11388 Romantic London.]]]<div class="no-img"> | ||
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Also known as the Robin Hood (Tavern) and the Robinhood (and Little John), the Robin Hood and Little John was situated in a court on the north side of the stretch of the Strand where the main entrance to the Royal Courts of | Also known as the Robin Hood (Tavern) and the Robinhood (and Little John), the Robin Hood and Little John was situated in a court on the north side of the stretch of the Strand where the main entrance to the Royal Courts of Justice now are. It was famous as the meeting place of the [[Robin Hood Society (London)|Robin Hood Society.]] | ||
The present precincts of the Royal Courts of Justice were a warren of gutters and 'courts' in the mid-18th century. One such street, Newastle Court, evidently had a 'sub-court' named [[Robin Hood Court (St Clement Danes)|'Robin Hood Court']] after the public house. The members of the Societie for Free and Candyd Enquirie, established in 1613, had met for their weekly debating nights first at members' homes, later at a public house in Essex Street before finally moving to the Robin Hood in 1747,<ref>{{:Anonymous 1764a}}, pp. vii, 117.</ref> and thereupon adopting the new or alternative name of the [[Robin Hood Society (London)|Robin Hood Society.]] While IRHB has as yet found no reference to this pub older than 1747, it is clear from accounts of the debating society that the pub was already well-established when it moved there. | The present precincts of the Royal Courts of Justice were a warren of gutters and 'courts' in the mid-18th century. One such street, Newastle Court, evidently had a 'sub-court' named [[Robin Hood Court (St Clement Danes)|'Robin Hood Court']] after the public house. The members of the Societie for Free and Candyd Enquirie, established in 1613, had met for their weekly debating nights first at members' homes, later at a public house in Essex Street before finally moving to the Robin Hood in 1747,<ref>{{:Anonymous 1764a}}, pp. vii, 117.</ref> and thereupon adopting the new or alternative name of the [[Robin Hood Society (London)|Robin Hood Society.]] While IRHB has as yet found no reference to this pub older than 1747, it is clear from accounts of the debating society that the pub was already well-established when it moved there. | ||
Revision as of 00:22, 13 June 2020
[[File:|thumb|right|500px|The Robin Hood and Little John was probably located somewhere within the area now occupied by the Royal Courts of Justice / Google Earth Street View.]]
By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2020-06-20. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2020-06-13.
Also known as the Robin Hood (Tavern) and the Robinhood (and Little John), the Robin Hood and Little John was situated in a court on the north side of the stretch of the Strand where the main entrance to the Royal Courts of Justice now are. It was famous as the meeting place of the Robin Hood Society.
The present precincts of the Royal Courts of Justice were a warren of gutters and 'courts' in the mid-18th century. One such street, Newastle Court, evidently had a 'sub-court' named 'Robin Hood Court' after the public house. The members of the Societie for Free and Candyd Enquirie, established in 1613, had met for their weekly debating nights first at members' homes, later at a public house in Essex Street before finally moving to the Robin Hood in 1747,[1] and thereupon adopting the new or alternative name of the Robin Hood Society. While IRHB has as yet found no reference to this pub older than 1747, it is clear from accounts of the debating society that the pub was already well-established when it moved there.
See also the page on Robin Hood Court (St Clement Danes), for a more detailed discussion of the topography of the area, and the page on the Robin Hood Society. 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. 293-311.
Sources
- Anonymous. The History of the Robinhood Society. In which the Origin of that Illustrious Body of Men is traced; the Method of managing their Debates is shewn; the Memoirs of the Various Members that compose it are given; and some Original Speeches, as Specimens of their Oratorical Abilities, are recorded (London, 1764), pp. vii, xii, 3, 40, 91, 117
- Castro, J. Paul de. 'Principal London Coffee-Houses, Taverns, and Inns in the Eighteenth Century', Notes & Queries, Series 12, vol. VI (1920), pp. 125-27; see p. 127 s.n. Robin Hood Tavern.
Maps
- Locating London's Past (John Rocque's 1746 Map of London)
- Edward Stanford's Library Map of London (1862-71), Westminster section
- 25" O.S. map London (1915- Numbered sheets) V.10 (1936; rev. 1914)
- 25" O.S. map London (1915- Numbered sheets) V.10 (1936; rev. 1914) (georeferenced)
- 6" O.S. map Middlesex XVII (1880-82; surveyed 1868-73)
- 6" O.S. map Surrey III (1880; surveyed 1868-73)
- 6" O.S. map London VII.SW (1894-96; rev. 1893-95)
- 6" O.S. map Surrey III.NW (1898; rev. 1893-95)
- 6" O.S. map Surrey III.NW (1898; rev. 1893-95) (georeferenced)
- 6" O.S. map London Sheet K (1920; rev. 1913-14)
- 6" O.S. map London Sheet K (c. 1946; rev. 1938).
Background
Notes
- ↑ Anonymous. The History of the Robinhood Society. In which the Origin of that Illustrious Body of Men is traced; the Method of managing their Debates is shewn; the Memoirs of the Various Members that compose it are given; and some Original Speeches, as Specimens of their Oratorical Abilities, are recorded (London, 1764), pp. vii, 117.
The Robin Hood and Little John was probably located somewhere within the area now occupied by the Royal Courts of Justice / Google Earth Street View.
The Robin Hood and Little John was probably located in or quite near the area indicated by the red arrow / Adapted from Richard Horwood's Plan of the Cities of London and Westminster (1792-99) at Romantic London.
