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- Title: Notes and Queries, Number 51, October 19, 1850
- Author : Various Authors
- Release Date : January 01, 2012
- Genre: Study Aids,Books,Reference,
- Pages : * pages
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It is a notes book. In a note on the second passage, Mr. Wright quotes a statute of Edw. III. , in which certain malefactors are classed together 'qui sont appellez Roberdesmen, Wastours, et Dragelatche:' and on the first he quotes two curious instances in which the name is applied in a similar manner, —one from a Latin song of the reign of Henry III. It seems not impossible that we have in these passages a trace of some forgotten mythical personage. 'Whitaker', says Mr. Wright, "supposes, without any reason, the 'Roberde's knaves' to be 'Robin Hood's men'. ' (Vol. ii. p. 506. ) It is singular enough, however, that as early as the time of Henry III. we find the term 'consors Roberto' applied generally, as designating any common thief or robber; and without asserting that there is any direct allusion to 'Robin Hood's men' in the expression 'Roberdes knaves', one is tempted to ask whence the hero of Sherwood got his own name.