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<div class="plot">The Bishop of Hereford will be passing through Barnsdale. Robin Hood orders his men to kill a deer: the bishop is going to dine with him and pay exorbitantly for it. Dressed as shepherds, Robin and six of his men are tending the venison roasting on the fire when the bishop arrives. The bishop reproaches them for killing the king's deer and tells them they must go with him to the king to answer for their deeds. Robin asks mercy, but the bishop will hear nothing of it. Robin then pulls out his bugle and blows it. Seventy of his men come running and kneel down to greet him. Little John asks why they have all been summoned. Robin tells him the bishop will not pardon them, whereupon Little John suggests they behead the bishop, who now, in turn, asks mercy of Robin and says he would have taken another route had he known Robin was here. Robin leads the bishop to the outlaws' quarters and feasts him. The bishop calls the reckoning, fearing it will be expensive. Little John searches the bishop's cloak and finds £300. Robin asks for music, takes the bishop by the hand and makes him dance before he lets him go.</div> | <div class="plot">The Bishop of Hereford will be passing through Barnsdale. Robin Hood orders his men to kill a deer: the bishop is going to dine with him and pay exorbitantly for it. Dressed as shepherds, Robin and six of his men are tending the venison roasting on the fire when the bishop arrives. The bishop reproaches them for killing the king's deer and tells them they must go with him to the king to answer for their deeds. Robin asks mercy, but the bishop will hear nothing of it. Robin then pulls out his bugle and blows it. Seventy of his men come running and kneel down to greet him. Little John asks why they have all been summoned. Robin tells him the bishop will not pardon them, whereupon Little John suggests they behead the bishop, who now, in turn, asks mercy of Robin and says he would have taken another route had he known Robin was here. Robin leads the bishop to the outlaws' quarters and feasts him. The bishop calls the reckoning, fearing it will be expensive. Little John searches the bishop's cloak and finds £300. Robin asks for music, takes the bishop by the hand and makes him dance before he lets him go.</div> | ||
=== | == Editions == | ||
==== | === Version A === | ||
==== Variant a ==== | |||
{{:Anonymous 17xxa}}, No. 23. | {{:Anonymous 17xxa}}, No. 23. | ||
==== | ==== Variant b ==== | ||
* {{:Anonymous 1791a}}. | * {{:Anonymous 1791a}}. | ||
* Bodleian Library, Douce Ballads 3(123b). [http://bodley24.bodley.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/acwwweng/ballads/image.pl?ref=Douce+Ballads+3(123b)&id=15791.gif&seq=1&size=1 Bodleian Library Catalogue of Ballads] (copy used by Child.) | * Bodleian Library, Douce Ballads 3(123b). [http://bodley24.bodley.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/acwwweng/ballads/image.pl?ref=Douce+Ballads+3(123b)&id=15791.gif&seq=1&size=1 Bodleian Library Catalogue of Ballads] (copy used by Child.) | ||
* Bodleian Library, Douce FF 71(11). [http://bodley24.bodley.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/acwwweng/ballads/image.pl?ref=Douce+FF+71(11)&id=15878.gif&seq=1&size=1 Bodleian Library Catalogue of Ballads] | * Bodleian Library, Douce FF 71(11). [http://bodley24.bodley.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/acwwweng/ballads/image.pl?ref=Douce+FF+71(11)&id=15878.gif&seq=1&size=1 Bodleian Library Catalogue of Ballads] | ||
==== | ==== Variant c ==== | ||
* {{:Anonymous 17xxb}}. Not seen by Child. | * {{:Anonymous 17xxb}}. Not seen by Child. | ||
* {{:Chappell, William 1855a}}, vol. II, pp. 395-96. Child used this edition, which is based on the preceding. | * {{:Chappell, William 1855a}}, vol. II, pp. 395-96. Child used this edition, which is based on the preceding. | ||
==== | ==== Variant d ==== | ||
{{:Anonymous 1749a}}, p. 98 (No. 23). | {{:Anonymous 1749a}}, p. 98 (No. 23). | ||
==== | === Version B === | ||
==== Variant a ==== | |||
* {{:Cochrane, Elizabeth 1730a}}, p. 149 (No. 113). | * {{:Cochrane, Elizabeth 1730a}}, p. 149 (No. 113). | ||
== Popular collections == | |||
* {{:Anonymous 17xxa}}, No. 23. Text ''A:a''. | * {{:Anonymous 17xxa}}, No. 23. Text ''A:a''. | ||
* {{:Anonymous 1749a}}, No. 23. Text ''A:d''. | * {{:Anonymous 1749a}}, No. 23. Text ''A:d''. | ||
== Scholarly and literary collections == | |||
* {{:Chappell, William 1855a}}, vol. II, pp. 395-96. Child's text ''A:a''. | * {{:Chappell, William 1855a}}, vol. II, pp. 395-96. Child's text ''A:a''. | ||
* {{:Child, Francis James 1882a}}, vol. III, pp. 193-96. | * {{:Child, Francis James 1882a}}, vol. III, pp. 193-96. | ||
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* {{:Evans, Thomas 1784a}}, vol. I, pp. 211-14. Title: The bishop of Hereford's entertainment by Robin Hood and Little John, &c. in merry Barnsdale. (''A:a'' type.) | * {{:Evans, Thomas 1784a}}, vol. I, pp. 211-14. Title: The bishop of Hereford's entertainment by Robin Hood and Little John, &c. in merry Barnsdale. (''A:a'' type.) | ||
* {{:Ritson, Joseph 1795a}}, vol. II, pp. 146-150. (''A:a'' type.) | * {{:Ritson, Joseph 1795a}}, vol. II, pp. 146-150. (''A:a'' type.) | ||
== Translations == | |||
=== French === | |||
{{:Loève-Veimars, François-Adolphe 1825a}}, pp. 204-207: 'Robin Hood et L'Evèque d'Hereford'. A French prose rendering. | {{:Loève-Veimars, François-Adolphe 1825a}}, pp. 204-207: 'Robin Hood et L'Evèque d'Hereford'. A French prose rendering. | ||
=== German === | |||
* {{:Grün, Anastasius 1864a}}, pp. 151-54: "Robin Hood und der Bischof von Hereford"; notes, p. 218. | * {{:Grün, Anastasius 1864a}}, pp. 151-54: "Robin Hood und der Bischof von Hereford"; notes, p. 218. | ||
** {{:Grün, Anastasius 1877a}}, pp. 293-296: "Robin Hood und der Bischof von Hereford". | ** {{:Grün, Anastasius 1877a}}, pp. 293-296: "Robin Hood und der Bischof von Hereford". | ||
* {{:Talvj 1840a}}, pp. 493-95: "Robin Hood under der Bischof von Hereford". | * {{:Talvj 1840a}}, pp. 493-95: "Robin Hood under der Bischof von Hereford". | ||
== Allusions == | |||
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== Notes == | |||
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Revision as of 14:21, 12 July 2018
Ballad | |
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Child | 144 |
Title | Robin Hood and the Bishop of Hereford |
Versions | 2 |
Variants | 5 |
Stanzas | 16 |
Date | c. 1730 |
By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-07-09. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-07-12.
Robin Hood and the Bishop of Hereford is an 18th century broadside ballad known in two versions, one in 16 stanzas, the other, more condensed, in just 11 stanzas. As Child notes,[1] the Bishop of Hereford is also a character in the ballad of Robin Hood and Queen Katherine (Child 145), where he remembers how Robin Hood made him sing mass and extracted an enforced loan from him. The earliest broadside prints of this ballad are from c. 1750, while the MS containing the B version has been dated to c. 1730, a dating Child feels is uncertain. According to Chappell it was the most popular Robin Hood ballad in the mid-19th century.[2]
Plot
Editions
Version A
Variant a
Anonymous, ed. Robin Hood's Garland. London: J. Marshall & Co., Aldermary Churchyard, [s.d.], No. 23.
Variant b
- Anonymous. Robin Hood and the Bishop of Hereford. London: Publish'd Apl. 7th, 1791, by C. Sheppard, No. 19, Lambert Hill, Doctors Commons.
- Bodleian Library, Douce Ballads 3(123b). Bodleian Library Catalogue of Ballads (copy used by Child.)
- Bodleian Library, Douce FF 71(11). Bodleian Library Catalogue of Ballads
Variant c
- Anonymous. The Bishop of Hereford's entertainment by Robin Hood and Little John, &c., in merry Barnsdale ([London]: printed for Daniel Wright, next the Sun Tavern in Holborn, [17??]). Not seen by Child.
- Chappell, W., ed. Popular Music of the Olden Time; A Collection of Ancient Songs, Ballads, and Dance Tunes, Illustrative of the National Music of England. With Short Introductions to the Different Reigns, and Notices of the Airs from Writers of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Also a Short Account of the Minstrels (London, [1855-59]), vol. II, pp. 395-96. Child used this edition, which is based on the preceding.
Variant d
Anonymous, ed. Robin Hood's Garland. [s.l.]: [s.n.], 1749, p. 98 (No. 23).
Version B
Variant a
- Cochrane, Elizabeth, compil. Elizabeth Cochrane's Songbook ([?1730]), p. 149 (No. 113).
Popular collections
- Anonymous, ed. Robin Hood's Garland. London: J. Marshall & Co., Aldermary Churchyard, [s.d.], No. 23. Text A:a.
- Anonymous, ed. Robin Hood's Garland. [s.l.]: [s.n.], 1749, No. 23. Text A:d.
Scholarly and literary collections
- Chappell, W., ed. Popular Music of the Olden Time; A Collection of Ancient Songs, Ballads, and Dance Tunes, Illustrative of the National Music of England. With Short Introductions to the Different Reigns, and Notices of the Airs from Writers of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Also a Short Account of the Minstrels (London, [1855-59]), vol. II, pp. 395-96. Child's text A:a.
- Child, Francis James, ed.; [Kittredge, G. L.], ed.; [Ireland, Catharine Innes], bibl. The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (Boston and New York; Cambridge, Massachusetts; London, ©1882-98), vol. III, pp. 193-96.
- [Evans, Thomas], ed. Old Ballads, Historical and Narrative (London, 1777), vol. I, pp. 211-14. Title: The bishop of Hereford's entertainment by Robin Hood and Little John, &c. in merry Barnsdale. (A:a type.)
- Evans, Thomas, ed. Old Ballads, Historical and Narrative, with Some of Modern Date (London, 1784), vol. I, pp. 211-14. Title: The bishop of Hereford's entertainment by Robin Hood and Little John, &c. in merry Barnsdale. (A:a type.)
- [Ritson, Joseph, ed.] Robin Hood: A Collection of All the Ancient Poems, Songs, and Ballads, now Extant, Relative to that Celebrated English Outlaw, to Which are Prefixed Historical Anecdotes of His Life (London, 1795), vol. II, pp. 146-150. (A:a type.)
Translations
French
Loève-Veimars, Adolphe, transl. Ballades, lëgendes et chants populaires de l'Angleterre et de l'Écosse, par Walter Scott, Thomas Moore, Campbell et les anciens poètes (Paris, 1825), pp. 204-207: 'Robin Hood et L'Evèque d'Hereford'. A French prose rendering.
German
- Grün, Anastasius, transl. Robin Hood. Ein Balladenkranz nach Altenglischen Volksliedern (Stuttgart, 1864), pp. 151-54: "Robin Hood und der Bischof von Hereford"; notes, p. 218.
- Grün, Anastasius, transl.; Frankl, Ludwig August, ed. Anastasius Grüns Gesammelte Werke (Berlin, 1877), pp. 293-296: "Robin Hood und der Bischof von Hereford".
- Talvj. Versuch einer Geschichtlichen Charakteristik der Volkslieder germanischer Nationen (Leipzig, 1840), pp. 493-95: "Robin Hood under der Bischof von Hereford".
Allusions
1828 - Clarke, Stephen Reynolds - New Yorkshire Gazetteer
Robin Hood's Well [...] a hamlet, partly in the township of Burgh Wallis, parish of Owton [sic], and partly in the township of Skelbrook, parish of Kirkby South, wapentake of Osgoldcross, 7 miles N. W. from Doncaster. This village is situated in what was once Barnsdale Forest, now enclosed, and one of the haunts of the renowned free-booter. The well is a square building, nine feet high, which adjoins the high road; near this place Robin Hood is said to have robbed the Bishop of Hereford, and afterwards compelled him to dance round a tree in his boots.[3]
Notes
- ↑ Child, Francis James, ed.; [Kittredge, G. L.], ed.; [Ireland, Catharine Innes], bibl. The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (Boston and New York; Cambridge, Massachusetts; London, ©1882-98), vol. III, p. 194.
- ↑ Chappell, W., ed. Popular Music of the Olden Time; A Collection of Ancient Songs, Ballads, and Dance Tunes, Illustrative of the National Music of England. With Short Introductions to the Different Reigns, and Notices of the Airs from Writers of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Also a Short Account of the Minstrels (London, [1855-59]), vol. II, p. 395.
- ↑ Clarke, Stephen Reynolds. The New Yorkshire Gazetteer, or Topographical Dictionary (London, 1828), p. 208.