Robin Hood's Progress to Nottingham

Matter of the Greenwood Document

Summary: The fifteen-year-old Robin meets fifteen foresters on his way to a shooting match. They mock him, he wins a wager, they refuse to pay, and he shoots fourteen of the fifteen dead and escapes to the greenwood. Child 139. The origin story of the legend is a massacre over a bet.
Date: broadside registered 1675; story known by the late 16th c.
Note: The most useful single text for establishing the tone ROBINCRAWL is aiming at.