1585 - Buck, John - Pension Book of Gray's Inn
From International Robin Hood Bibliography
By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-07-31. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-07-28.
Allusion
Item for my [John Buck's] charges of horse hire & other expenses in rydinge to Nonsuche to her Maties Court wth aunswere to the Counsailers towching Robin Hoods stake defacing viiis viid[1]
Source notes
Bracket as in printed source. 'Fletcher[2] cites a letter from students at Gray's Inn concerning this case.
IRHB comments
The archery targets, "stakes", on Finsbury Fields had names. One of them was Robin Hood's Stake;[3] presumably this was the object of the vandals' attention. The writer of the account item, John Buck, was a butler, later steward, at Gray's Inn.[4] This item has not been noted in previous studies.
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.
- 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
- Fletcher, Reginald James, ed. The Pension Book of Gray's Inn (Records of the Honourable Society) 1569-1669 (London, 1901-10), vol. I, pp. 315-19.
Background
- K., A. J. 'Archery in Finsbury Fields', Gentleman's Magazine, vol. CII (1832), pp. 209-13; see especially p. 210 & n. ✝.
Notes
- ↑ Fletcher, Reginald James, ed. The Pension Book of Gray's Inn (Records of the Honourable Society) 1569-1669 (London, 1901-10), vol. I, p. 489.
- ↑ Fletcher. op. cit., vol. I, p. 489 n. 1.,
- ↑ K., A. J. 'Archery in Finsbury Fields', Gentleman's Magazine, vol. CII (1832), pp. 209-13; see p. 210 & n. ✝.
- ↑ See Fletcher. op. cit., vol. I, pp. 39, 71, 96,128 (bis), 128 n. 1, 142, 146, 483 (bis), 488 (bis).