Wednesday 21 November 2007

The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection with the ... By Robert Chambers

hmmm embedding text , great idea ...needs some fine tuning Google...

href="http://books.google.com/books?id=K0UJAAAAIAAJ&dq=%22robin+hood%27s+grave%22&as_brr=1&pg=RA3-PA607&ci=79,103,840,1308&source=bookclip">priory forced his way into the chamber where his dying chieftain lay The latter according to the Btory in the ballad makes the following request Give me my bent bow in my hand And an arrow I 11 let free And where that arrow is taken up There let my grave digged be The bow being then put into his hands by Little John Bobin discharged it through the open casement and the arrow alighted on a spot where according to popular tradition he was shortly afterwards buned A stone carved with a florid cross and an obliterated inscription marks the place of sepulture and the whole has been in recent times surrounded by an enclosure as shewn in the accompanying engraving This probably genuine memorial of Robin Hood is situated on the extreme edge of Kirklees Park not far from Huddersfield The site which it occu"

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