1524 - Wolsey, Thomas - To Duke of Norfolk
From International Robin Hood Bibliography
Cardinal Wolsey by Sampson Strong (from Wikipedia).
Thomas Howard, third Duke of Norfolk by Hans Holbein the Younger (from Wikipedia).
By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-08-16. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-07-28.
Allusion
Being redy to fynishe this letter, arrived the post with your letters written on Robyn Hoddes Crosse, and such as were sent to you bothe from the King and Quene of Scottes, thErle [sic] of Aran, and also the Lord Dacres [...][1]
IRHB comments
Brackets added by IRHB. The recipient of this letter from Cardinal Wolsey was Thomas Howard, third Duke of Norfolk (1473-1554) (whose father, the 2nd duke, had just died in May of 1524). This rather long letter which runs to seven pages of printed text was begun July 29th to 31st and finished on August 1 (pp. 85, 92.) For the location of Robin Hood's Cross, see the entry on that place-name.
Sources
Lists
- Not included in Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), pp. 315-19.
- Outside scope of 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.
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