Little John (Lyme Regis)

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Lyme Regis, home port of the Little John in 1592.

[[File:|thumb|right|500px|In lieu of the Little John: the galeass Antelope (1546). Original by Anthony Anthony – Roll of Henry VIII's Navy / Wikipedia, public domain.]]

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2014-08-25. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-07-17.

Little John was the name of a ship based in Lyme Regis which is mentioned in a piece of state correspondence in 1592 (see allusion below).

Allusions

1592 - Anonymous - Little John of Lyme

The "Little John" of Lyme

[1592]—Jacob Lyger, Frenchman, merchant of St. Malo.
John Batyn, master, and dwelleth at Lyme.
Ro. Hassard.
Tho. Denns, Frenchman, dwelling in Lyme.
Peter Rowe, Frenchman, dwelling in Lyme. [p. 257:]
Tho. Toup, an Englishman, in the Tersero, [Terceira].
Ro. Creden, mariner.
Wyll and all the company of the Ship.
Endorsed:—"Certain persons to be sent for." (And in Cecil's handwriting), "Speak with my Lord Admiral."

Gazetteers

• Not included in Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), pp. 293-311.

Sources

• [Roberts, R. Arthur, et. al., eds.] Calendar of the Manuscripts of the Most Hon. the Marquis of Salisbury, K.G., &c. &c. &c. Preserved at Hatfield House, Hertfordshire Part IV (Historical Manuscripts Commission) (London; Glasgow and Edinburgh; Dublin, 1892), pp. 256-57.

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