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A writer in the Edinburgh Review (July, 1847, p. 134) has cited an allusion to Robin Hood, of a date intermediate between the passages from Wyntown and the one about to be cited from Bower. In the year 1439, a petition was presented to Parliament against one Piers Venables of Aston, in Derbyshire, "who having no liflode, ne sufficeante of goodes, gadered and assembled unto him many mi
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A writer in the
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"Legendis non raro incredilibibus aliisque plusquam anilibus neniis."–Hearne,
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In his
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No 4.
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Hunter, pp. 28, 35-38
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Mr. Hunter thinks it necessary to prove that it was formerly a usage in England to celebrate real events in popular song. We submit that it has been still more customary to celebrate them in history, when they were of public importance. The case of private and domestic stories is different.
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Most remarkable of all would this be, should we adopt the views of Mr. Hunter, because we know, from the incidental testimony of
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Matthew Paris, London, 1640, p. 1002