1712 - Hearne, Thomas - Remarks and Collections

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Robin Hood's Grave at Kirklees Priory

Thomas Hearne, 1772 / Wikipedia, public domain.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-02-19. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-07-28.

Allusion

22 jan. 1712-13
Robin Hood the famous Out-law was buried in the Nunnery Church of Kirkley in y^e County of York. Leland. ibid. p. 53.

IRHB comments

For the allusion in Leland's Collectanea see 1540 - Leland, John - Collectanea.

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.

Editions

• Hearne, Thomas; Rannie, D.W., ed. Remarks and Collections of Thomas Hearne, vol. IV (Oxford Historical Society, vol. XXXIV) (Oxford, 1898); see p. 57, and p. 56 for date.

Background

• Wikipedia: Thomas Hearne (antiquarian).]

Notes