Robin Hood is the best-loved outlaw of all time. In this beautifully illustrated edition, Henry Gilbert tells of the adventures of the Merry Men of Sherwood Forest- Robin himself, Little John, Friar Tuck, Will Scarlet and Alan-a-Dale, as well as Maid Marian, good King Richard, and Robin’ s deadly enemies Guy of Gisborne and the evil Sheriff of Nottingham.

Once upon a time the great mass of English people were unfree. They could not live where they chose, nor work for whom they pleased. Society in those feudal days was mainly divided into lords and peasants. The lords held the land from the king, and the peasants or villeins were looked upon as part of the soil, and had to cultivate it to support themselves and their masters. If John or Dick, thrall of a manor, did not like the way in which the lord or his steward treated him, he could not go to some other part of the country and get work under a kinder owner. If he tried to do this he was looked upon as a criminal, to be brought back and punished with the whip or the branding-iron, or cast into prison.

Preface

ONE   How Robin Became an Outlaw

TWO   How Little John Stole the Forester's Dinner,

  and of His Meeting with Robin Hood

THREE  How Robin Fought the Beggar-Spy

  and Caught the Sheriff

FOUR  How Robin Hood Met Father Tuck

FIVE  How by the Help of Robin Hood and Jack,

  Son of Wilkin, Alan-a-Dale Was

  Wed to the Lady Alice

SIX   How Robin Gave Aid to Sir Herbrand

SEVEN  How Robin Hood Rescued Will Stuteley

  and Did Justice on Richard Illbeast,

  the Beggar-Spy

EIGHT  How Robin Hood Slew the Sheriff

NINE  King Richard Meets Robin

TEN   The Burning of Evil Hold

ELEVEN Of the Death of Robin Hood