“8. Robin Hood, in scarlet, with forty bowmen, all clad in Lincoln green.
“Thus they marched into the town. Now follows their performance.
“They marched decently, in good order, round the market-cross, and came to the church, where they offered their cordial prayers for our most gracious sovereign; a sermon preached at that time.
“From thence my lord invited all his attendants to his house to dinner.
“The reverend bishop did the same to all his attendants, inviting the minister and other persons to his own house, where they were sumptuously entertained.
“The soldiers marched up to the cross, where they gave many vollies of shot, with push of pike, and other martial feats.
“There was erected a scaffold and arbours, where the morris-dancers and nymphs acted their parts; many thousands of spectators having come out of the country and villages adjacent.
“Two days were spent in acting ‘Robin Hood.’ The sheriff and reverend bishop sent bottles of sack to several officers acting in the play, who all performed their parts to the general satisfaction of the spectators, with acclamations of joy for the safe arrival of his sacred majesty.
“Something more might have been expected from the civil magistrate of the town, who permitted the conduit to run water all the time.
“The preceding rejoicings were performed by the commonalty of the borough of Richmond.”