1344 - Robhodway (Walsham le Willows) (1)
From International Robin Hood Bibliography
Record | |
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Date | 1344 |
Topic | Robhodway |
Walsham le Willows.
By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2016-12-10. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2019-04-27.
Record
[12 Apr. 1344:]
Thomas Fuller amerced 3d. for an encroachment at Staple way, digging on the common there, 4p. long and 4ft. wide, ordered etc., pledge the Hayward; and 3d. for making a pit on the common, digging clay at Robhodway; ordered. Walter Fuller amerced 3d. for the same. Roger the Prior of Ixworth did the same, ordered etc.[1]
IRHB comments
This and another 1344 entry in the court rolls are the only known records of this place-name. Presumably the road was named after the local Robhod family.[2]
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.
Sources
Background
Also see
- 1344 - Robhodway (Walsham le Willows) (2)
- Robhoods of Walsham le Willows (links)
- Robhodway (Walsham le Willows).
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