Amazing & Extraordinary Facts About Great Britain (2011) - Plot & Excerpts
Some of them deserve to be better-known. The Great Outlaw The many faces of Robin Hood In the grounds of Kirklees Priory near Mirfield in Yorkshire is a grave which bears the name Robin Hood. Across the border in Derbyshire in St Michael’s churchyard, Hathersage, is the grave of Little John from which, in 1780, a thigh bone was removed which would have belonged to a man about 8 feet tall. ‘Robin Hood’s’ grave is empty but the gravestone has been moved more than once and bits of an earlier one were chewed as a supposed remedy for toothache! A medieval document records that in 1225 a fugitive called Robert Hood had goods confiscated to the value of 32 shillings and sixpence (£1.62.5p) for failing to appear in a Yorkshire court. In 1262 a similar forfeit was paid by a fugitive called Robehod in Berkshire, again for non-appearance in court. The legends of Robin Hood gathered pace in the 15th century. The best researched – that of the Scotsman John Mair, written in 1521 — claimed that Robin Hood was outlawed in 1193, the time with which the legends traditionally associate him.
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