1323 - Geoffrey Robinhood of Addiscombe
From International Robin Hood Bibliography
| Record | |
|---|---|
| Date | 1323 |
| Topic | Geoffrey Robinhood of Addiscombe pays 12 d in tax |
Addiscombe – what would Geoffrey Robinhood have thought about the Croydon Tramlink? (photo: Mark S. Jobling).
Addiscombe, formerly in Surrey, now in the London borough of Croydon.
By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2015-08-28. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-01-08.
Record
[1323:]
De Godefrido Robynhod xij d
[IRHB translation:]
From Geoffrey Robynhod 12 d[1]
Source notes
Entry in tax returns for the "Villata de Adescompe" (vill of Addiscombe) in the hundred of "Waletone".
IRHB comments
The vill of Addiscombe is now a district of south London in the borough of Croydon. "Waletone" is Walton-on-Thames.
Lists
- Not included in 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.
Printed sources
Background
Notes
- ↑ Giuseppi, M.S., ed.; Jenkinson, Hilary, ed.; Willard, J.F., introd.; Hudson, W.H., transcr.; Meister, G.E., transcr.; Powell, D.L., transcr.; White, F. Puryer, transcr. Surrey Taxation Returns. Fifteenths and Tenths. Part (A): The 1332 Assessment. (Exchequer, K.R., Subsidies 184/4) (Surrey Record Society, Number XVIII) (1922), p. 64.