![]() ![]() To pay for their feast, Robin takes a third of all the bishop’s belongings - one third goes back to the bishop and one third is set aside for charity. Robin takes the knight to Sherwood Forest and sees that Little John has invited the Bishop of Hereford and three friars, all quite rich guests. The Prior of Emmet will soon own all Sir Richard of the Lea’s property. His castle and property have been pawned to keep his son out of prison after an unfair jousting tournament. Robin meets a knight who seems despondent. One day Little John and Robin go along different paths to invite guests to a feast at Sherwood Forest. ![]() He advises the sheriff to be more careful about whom he takes into his service. Robin returns the silver to the sheriff and lets him know that he no longer has anything against the man. He accepts a position in the sheriff’s service, but after six months, he steals the sheriff’s silver goblets and plates, and returns to Sherwood Forest with the sheriff’s cook, who wants to be one of Robin Hood’s men. Little John goes to the Nottingham fair and wins the quarterstaff and archery competitions. When the meal is over, they relieve him of his money, and Robin warns the sheriff not to take advantage of others. ![]() Robin and his men prepare an enormous feast for the sheriff. He dresses as a butcher and tricks the sheriff into coming to Sherwood Forest under the guise of selling him an inexpensive herd. Robin pays back the sheriff for trying to hurt one of his men. He retreats to his castle and is ashamed of his cowardly actions. The sheriff plans to hang Will the following day, but Robin and his men rescue Will moments before he is hung. He sends groups of men into Sherwood Forest, but they only capture Will Stutely, one of Robin’s men. He devises another plan to capture Robin Hood. When the sheriff realizes what has happened, he grows angrier. The sheriff holds an archery competition, which Robin wins, though he does so in disguise. The sheriff returns home, committed to bringing this outlaw to justice. When he asks for help to capture Robin Hood, King Henry tells him to capture the thief himself or lose his job. The Sheriff of Nottingham visits King Henry. The sheriff wants the reward and to avenge his relative’s death, but he can’t find anyone to give Robin the warrant for his arrest. Robin Hood has many enemies, especially the Sheriff of Nottingham. Then the men must pay for their meal with large amounts of coin. One way they do this is to forcefully “invite” those with ill-gotten gain into Sherwood Forest for a feast. Robin Hood and his band rob from the rich and give a portion of what they steal to those in need. While finding a way to marry Allan a Dale and Ellen o’ the Dale, Robin meets Friar Tuck, who also becomes one of his merry men. Allan a Dale joins when Robin Hood comes up with a plan to keep his true love from marrying a knight she doesn’t love. An honest miller catches Robin, Little John and others off-guard in a fight, and he eventually joins the band, too. A stalwart Tinker, who wants to present Robin with a warrant for his arrest, battles Robin with the quarterstaff and then joins his band.Īrthur a Bland beats Little John in a quarterstaff bout, so Robin asks him to join his group, and Will Scarlet, who is Robin’s nephew and is fleeing his home because he killed a man, also joins. John Little, later named Little John, joins after a battle of quarterstaffs with Robin on a log bridge. But a few men come to join Robin Hood in unique ways. Other men, who are oppressed, cast out or have become outlaws, join him. A reward is placed on Robin’s head because he shot one of the king’s deer. Now an outlaw, Robin escapes into Sherwood Forest. Robin angrily shoots back and kills the man. As he leaves, a forester shoots an arrow at Robin, barely missing him. To prove his skill, Robin shoots an arrow at a deer some distance away and kills it. When they learn he is on his way to an archery competition, they ridicule him. One day Robin of Locksley Town walks past a group of foresters. Men called foresters police the area to keep poachers away. Animals in England’s forests belong to the king or a local noble. ![]()
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