1485 - Robin Hood's Close (Nottingham)
From International Robin Hood Bibliography
| Record | |
|---|---|
| Date | 1485-85 |
| Topic | Robin Hood's Close (Nottingham) |
St Ann's Well a.h.a. Robin Hood's Well, close to which Robin Hood's Close was located.
By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2016-10-09. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2022-05-17.
Record
[1485-86:]
[...] Item paid, the same tyme, to Richard Norys for hedgyng
of Robynhode Closse by þe space of ij. dayes, he
takyng by þe day to mete and hier iiijd.: summa . viijd.[1]
Source notes
This occurs in Nottingham chamberlains' accounts under the heading: "Reparacions made and costes in diuerse places within þe town, and also nygh aboute þe town herafter folowen, etc."[2]
IRHB comments
Robin Hood's Close was located close to St Ann's Well, which was formerly known as Robin Hood's Well.
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
- Stevenson, W.H.; Raine, James, transl.; Baker, W.T., ed.; Guilford, E.L., ed.; Gray, Duncan, ed.; Walker, V.W., ed. Records of the Borough of Nottingham, Being a Series of Extracts from the Archives of the Corporation of Nottingham (London; Nottingham, 1882-1956), vol. III, p. 254; and see vol. III, p. 252.
Brief mention
- Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), p. 301, s.n. 'Robin Hood's Close'.
Also see
- 1484 - Robin Hood's Close (Nottingham)
- 1499 - Robin Hood's Close (Nottingham)
- 1624 - Robin Hood's Acre (Nottingham)
- Robin Hood's Close (Nottingham)
- Robin Hood's Well (Nottingham).
Notes
- ↑ Stevenson, W.H.; Raine, James, transl.; Baker, W.T., ed.; Guilford, E.L., ed.; Gray, Duncan, ed.; Walker, V.W., ed. Records of the Borough of Nottingham, Being a Series of Extracts from the Archives of the Corporation of Nottingham (London; Nottingham, 1882-1956), vol. III, p. 254.
- ↑ Stevenson, W.H.; Raine, James, transl.; Baker, W.T., ed.; Guilford, E.L., ed.; Gray, Duncan, ed.; Walker, V.W., ed. Records of the Borough of Nottingham, Being a Series of Extracts from the Archives of the Corporation of Nottingham (London; Nottingham, 1882-1956), vol. III, p. 252.