Robin Hood: BEING A COMPLETE HISTORY OF ALL THE NOTABLE AND MERRY EXPLOITS PERFORMED BY HIM AND HIS MEN, ON MANY OCCASIONS

THE reign of King Richard the First was very different from the times we now live in. The roads were very bad, and were beset with robbers; and there was a great number of large forests and parks in the country well stocked with deer. At that time lived the famous Robin Hood. He was born in the village of Locksley, in Nottinghamshire, and his father was very skilful in the use of the cross-bow. His mother had a brother named Gamewell, of Great Gamewell-hall, near Maxwell, in the same county, but at the distance of twenty miles from the house of Robin Hood’s father.