1640 - Robin Hood's Elm (Woodstock)

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Date	1640
Topic	Robin Hood's Elm [Oxford Street, Woodstock, Oxfordshire]

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Oxford Street, Woodstock.

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By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-09-21. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-01-08.

Record

Of Bartholomew Love for the lopp of Robbin Hoodes elme 18s and for 7 asshes sould out of Forrestes backside 36s. For the shrewde of the trees 5s. nexte to Richardsons house neere the hollowaye.

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Source notes

IRHB's brackets. The MS source is Woodstock Chamberlains' Accounts for 21 Dec. 1639 – 21 Dec. 1640. The items cited are receipts.

IRHB comments

For discussion, see the page on Robin Hood's Elm (Woodstock).

Lists

• 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

• Maslen, Marjorie, ed.; [Schwarz, Conny, transcr.]; [Day, Christopher, introd.] Woodstock Chamberlains' Accounts, 1609-50 (Oxford Record Society, vol. 58) (1993), p. 184; and see p. 183 for date.

Background

• Wikipedia: Woodstock, Oxfordshire.

Also see

• 1608 - Robin Hood's Elm (Woodstock)
• 1618 - Robin Hood's Elm (Woodstock)
• Robin Hood's Elm (Woodstock).

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