1315, Adam Belle, manucaptor of a burgess for Scarborough.
1324, Adam Bele, manucaptor for citizens returned for York.
[28] Grimm refers to the tradition by which Eustathius accounts for Sarpedon's being king of the Lycians, which involves a story of his two rival uncles proposing to shoot through a ring placed on the breast of a child, and of Sarpedon's being offered for that purpose by his mother; and also mentions a manuscript he had seen of travels in Turkey, which contained a picture of a man shooting at an apple placed on a child's head.
Mery it was in grene forest,
Amonge the leues grene,
Wher that men walke east and west,
With bowes and arrowes kene,
To ryse the dere out of theyr denne,—5
Such sightes [hath] ofte bene sene,—
As by [thre] yemen of the north countrey,
By them it [is I] meane.
The one of them hight Adam Bel,
[The other Clym of the Clough,]10
[The thyrd was William of Cloudesly,]
An archer good ynough.
They were outlawed for venyson,
These yemen everechone;
They swore them brethren upon a day,15
To Englysshe-wood for to gone.
Now lith and lysten, gentylmen,
[That] of myrthes loveth to here:
Two of them were single men,
The third had a wedded fere.20
Wyllyam was the wedded man,
Muche more then was hys care:
He sayde to hys brethren upon a day,
To Carelel he would fare,