Shooter's Hill festivals

From International Robin Hood Bibliography
Revision as of 17:53, 29 May 2017 by Henryfunk (talk | contribs)
Festivals
Locality Shooter's Hill
Vicinity Now Royal Borough of Greenwich, Southeast London; formerly Greenwich, Kent
Coordinates 51.4691, 0.0669
Adm. div. Kent
Began 1 May 1515
Ended 1 May 1515
Events Henry VIII and the queen, with many lords and ladies, ride to Shooter's Hill, meet with Robin Hood, Little John, Friar Tuck, Maid Marian, and 200 members of royal guard dressed as outlaws, who give archery exhibition, shooting arrows with whistle heads. 'Robin Hood' invites royals into an arbour, feasting them on venison and wine; visitors escorted back by Robin Hood and company, meeting en route Ladies May and Flora in chariot drawn by five horses, ridden by Lady Humidity, Lady Ver. Lady Vegetive, Lady Pleasant, and Sweet Odour, who salute king with songs. Maying witnessed by large crowd. In afternoon a horse race with royal and noble riders in green velvet and cloth of goldProperty "Fsevents" (as page type) with input value "Henry VIII and the queen, with many lords and ladies, ride to Shooter's Hill, meet with Robin Hood, Little John, Friar Tuck, Maid Marian, and 200 members of royal guard dressed as outlaws, who give archery exhibition, shooting arrows with whistle heads. 'Robin Hood' invites royals into an arbour, feasting them on venison and wine; visitors escorted back by Robin Hood and company, meeting en route Ladies May and Flora in chariot drawn by five horses, ridden by Lady Humidity, Lady Ver. Lady Vegetive, Lady Pleasant, and Sweet Odour, who salute king with songs. Maying witnessed by large crowd. In afternoon a horse race with royal and noble riders in green velvet and cloth of gold" contains invalid characters or is incomplete and therefore can cause unexpected results during a query or annotation process.
Loading map...
Shooter's Hill.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-08-11. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-05-29.

Henry VIII and his queen, Catherine of Aragon, accompanied by many lords and ladies, rode to Shooter's Hill, where they met with Robin Hood, Little John, Friar Tuck, and Maid Marian – impersonated respectively by Yay or Ghay, Thomas Wawen, Wynsberry, and Thomas Villiers – as well as two hundred members of the royal guard dressed as outlaws. The royal guards gave an archery exhibition, all 200 men shooting on cue, with arrows with whistle heads that produced a loud and impressive noise. 'Robin Hood' invited the royal couple into his arbour, feasting them on venison and wine. The royal and noble visitors were subsequently escorted back by Robin Hood and his company, being met en route by Ladies May and Flora in a rich chariot drawn by five horses, ridden by the ladies Humidite, Ver, Vegetive, Pleasant, and Sweet Odour – perhaps impersonated by the children of the chapel – who salute the king with songs. Pasteboard giants were carried in procession on cars. This maying was witnessed by a large number of spectators. In the afternoon there was a horse race with the royal and noble riders dressed in cloth of gold and – appropriately on May Day – green velvet.

Allusions

Lists and gazetteers

Sources

Studies and criticism

Background

Also see

Notes


"th" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 16.