Note 770 — from the Origins To the Renaissance (continued 8)
Reading edition
On the popularity of Robin Hood in the fourteenth century, see above, p. 224. In the fifteenth century he was the hero of plays performed during the May festivities: "Rece^d for the gathering of the May-play called Robin Hood, on the fair day, 19s." Accounts of the church of St. Lawrence at Reading, year 1499, in the Academy, October 6, 1883, p. 231.