Matter of the Greenwood Document
Historia Majoris Britanniae
- Summary
- Moves Robin to the reign of Richard I - the origin of the Richard-and-John framing - and states that he took from the rich and gave to the poor, and that he was the most humane of robbers. The redistribution is in print by 1521, more than 270 years before Ritson.
- Date
- 1521
- Author
- John Major
Worldviews
The Ballad Outlaw, Ritson's Radical
Provenance
- Source method
- Web research
- Review status
- DRAFT
- Confidence
- HIGH