[33] Confession.
[34] The above ballad is from an old black-letter copy in Anthony à Wood's collection, compared with two others in the British Museum. In 1557 certain "ballets" are entered on the books of the Stationers' Company, "to John Wallye and Mrs. Toye," one of which is entitled, "of wakefylde and a grene," meaning probably this ballad.
[35] Itineraries, 161.
[36] Willow.
[37] So called from their being tied up at night.
[38] "A. D. 1194, King Richard I. being a hunting in the forrest of Sherwood, did chase a hart out of the forrest of Sherwood into Barnesdale in Yorkshire, and because he could not there recover him, he made proclamation at Tickill in Yorkshire, and at divers other places, that no person should kill, hurt or chase the said hart, but that he might safely retorne into forrest againe; which hart was afterwards called, 'A hart royall proclaimed.'"—Manwood's Forest Laws.
[39] Itinerary, v. 101.
[40] Grafton, 85. Harl. MS. 1233. 367.
[41] Letter from Jo. Saville, to W. Camden, Illus. Viro Epis. 1691.
[42] Collectanea, i. 54. Fuller's Worthies of Eng. 330.