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Ntaining accounts of expenses in the king's household, we find the name
of "Robyn Hode," not once, but several times occurring, receiving, with
about eight-and-twenty others, the pay of 3d. a day, as one of the
"_valets, porteurs de la chambre_" of the king. Whether this was some
other person who chanced to bear the same name, or that the ballad-maker
has in this related what was mere matter of fact, it will become no one
to affirm in a tone of authority. I, for my part, believe it is the same
person.' Mr Hunter then quotes the words of the original record, which
is in Norman-French. It recites the names of the twenty-four
'_portours_'--as the word is here spelled--who received pay from the
24th of March to the 21st of April 1324; and among these are the names
of 'Robyn Hod' and 'Simon Hod.' These names do not occur in any previous
document. The