Nottinghamshire ran under the same Shrievalty with Derbyshire until the 10th year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. Below is a tentative list of those early Sheriff’s compiled from existing medieval documents.1157: Sir Robert Fitz Ranulph1170: William Fitz Ranulph1189: Ralph Murdoc1195: William Brewer1204-8: Robert de Vieuxpont1208-9:...
Robyn hod in scherewod stod, hodud and hathud and hosut and schodFour and thuynti arowus he bar in hits hondus.This rhyme is scribbled in a manuscript from Lincoln Cathedral dated about 1410 and it is Sherwood Forest that is the backdrop to nearly all modern day productions of the Robin Hood legend. On a summer weekend approximately...
Who can tell truly,How cruel Sheriff’s are?Of their hardness to poor people,No tale can go too far.If a man cannot pay,They drag him here and there.They put him on assizes,The jurors oath to swear.He dares not breath a murmur,Or has to pay again.And the saltness of the sea,Is less bitter than his pain.In Walt Disney’s Story...
When Walt Disney’s film, The Story of Robin Hood and his Merrie Men hit the silver screen during its world premiere in London’s West End in March 1952 it joined a long list of movies based on the outlaws adventures, dating right back to those early pioneers of the motion picture industry. Here is a list of Robin Hood movies...
The medieval town of Nottingham is beautifully reconstructed in Walt Disney’s Story of Robin Hood and the film also has one unique historical detail not included in other movies about the hero. The Sheriff has his own house in the town. This is reflected in the fifteenth century ballad Robin Hood and the Potter, where Robin...
As the townspeople roared their approval, Robin cut down Will Stutely with his knife.Drawing his sword, the Sheriff rushed towards the outlaw leader, but Will Scarlet, carrying a forester’s quarter staff, sent the Sheriff’s sword spinning out of his hand.The square was now filling with acrid smoke and undercover of all this,...
Although The Story of Robin Hood and his Merrie Men is a Walt Disney film, synonymous with good wholesome family entertainment, the scenes in which Scathelok is struck across the face, whilst in the stocks and Will Stutely is hung up in a deer skin over a burning brazier and beaten continuously by foresters on horseback, are...
