Note 21 — THE LIFE OF ROBIN HOOD.

(21) —“the sheriff of Not­ting­ham­shire.”] Ralph Murdach was sheriff of Derby and Not­ting­ham­shires in the first year of King Richard I., and for the seven years preceding, and William Brewerre in his sixth year, between which and the first no name appears on the roll. See Fuller’s Worthies, &c.