The book of British ballads . subject HE DEATH AND BURIAL OF ROBIN copy this ballad from Ritsons Collectionof all the Ancient Poems, Songs, and Ballads, nowextant, relative to that celebrated English Outlaw,Robin Hood. A brief outline of his life we havealready given ; the notes we here introduce concernexclusively his Death and Burial: for the facts concerning which we are indebted to the indefatigablecollector, who seems to have gathered together, by im-mense labour, every item of information that exists upon theThe old chronicles are somewhat circumstantial touching the finalexit of
The book of British ballads . subject HE DEATH AND BURIAL OF ROBIN copy this ballad from Ritsons Collectionof all the Ancient Poems, Songs, and Ballads, nowextant, relative to that celebrated English Outlaw,Robin Hood. A brief outline of his life we havealready given ; the notes we here introduce concernexclusively his Death and Burial: for the facts concerning which we are indebted to the indefatigablecollector, who seems to have gathered together, by im-mense labour, every item of information that exists upon theThe old chronicles are somewhat circumstantial touching the finalexit of the hero. The king att last, says the Harleian MS., sett furth a>-~\ proclamation to have him apprehended, &c. Grafton, after having told usPi that he practised robberyes, &c, adds, The which beyng certefyed to ther king, and he beyng greatly offended therewith, caused his proclamation to bemade that whosoever would bryng him quicke or dead, the king would geve him agreat summe of money, as by the recordes in the
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