2001 - Rickman, Phil - The Cure of Souls (1)

Allusion
Date	2001
Author	_Rickman, Phil
Title	The Cure of Souls
Mentions	Robin Hood's Butts (Canon Pyon, Herefordshire)

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One of the Butts or Pyons.

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The other Butt or Pyon.

The cover of Rickman, Phil 2002a / Private collection.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-04-30. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-04-30.

Allusion

Allan Henry's sitting room had one wall that was all plate glass, perhaps forty feet long. It had wide green views across to one of the conical, wooded humps known as Robin Hood's Butts. Appropriately, according to legend, the Butts had been dumped there by the Devil, making him Hereford's first sporadic developer.

Source notes

Thie paragraph cites opens chapter 33, "Item". The Allan Henry character is a wealthy developer.

IRHB comments

The Cure of Souls is one of Phil Rickman's Merrily Watkins mysteries, a series of 'spiritual thrillers'. There are two Robin Hood's Butts in Canon Pyon. It is not clear to me which of them is meant.

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

• Rickman, Phil 2002a; see p. 385.

Also see

• Robin Hood's Butts (Canon Pyon) (1)
• Robin Hood's Butts (Canon Pyon) (2).

Notes