_Yede_, _Yeed_, went. _Yeff_, if. _Yeffell_, evil. _Yeft_, gift. _Yemenry_, yeomanry. _Thow seys god yemenry_, thou speakest honestly, fairly, sensibly, like a good yeoman. _Yend_, yon. _Yeomandree_, _Yeomandry_, yeomanry, followers. _Yerdes_, rods. _Yever_, ever. _Yfere_, together. _Ylke_, same. _Ylke same_, very same. _Ynowe_, enough. _Yode_, went. _Yole_, Christmas. _Yonder_, under. _Yong men_, yeomen (which is every where substituted in Copland’s edition). See Spelman’s _Glossary_ in the wordes _Juniores_, _Yeoman_; Minshen’s _Guide into Tongues_, in the latter word; Tyrwhitt’s edition of the _Canterbury Tales_, iv. 195; Shakespeare’s _Plays_, 1793, xiv. 347. [Illustration] PRINTED BY BALLANTYNE, HANSON AND CO. EDINBURGH AND LONDON TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE Original spelling and grammar have been generally retained, with some exceptions noted below. Original printed page numbers are shown like this: {52}. Original small caps are now uppercase. Italics look _like this_. Footnotes have been relabeled 1–359, and moved from within paragraphs to the ends of chapters. The transcriber produced the cover image and hereby assigns it to the public domain. Original page images are available from archive.org—search for "odcollectrobinho00ritsrich". Page ix, List of Embellishments. The page reference for KIRKLEY HALL is changed from “xlv” to “xiv”. Page xxi. The Pedigree of Robin Hood in the printed book was a complicated chart, which cannot be represented properly in this simple text edition. Therefore a transcription has been provided, based on the geneological numbering system of Robert B. Henry—see for example wikipedia.org, search for Ahnentafel_with_generation. I apologize for any errors you might find in this transcription. The Henry system starts with a progenitor, numbered 1, his/her children, numbered 11, 12, etc, followed by grandchildren 111, 112, etc. The system ordinarily depends on knowing the order of birth of children to parents, but that is not provided in our book, so our Henry numbers are, in that respect, arbitrary, showing only parentage. Also, the abbreviation m. is used in this transcription, ordinarily meaning “married”, but in this case indicating only parentage. Page xvii. “drowne themselves (as it were,” changed to “drowne themselves (as it were),”, to close the left parenthesis. Page lvi. A missing left double quotation mark was inserted before ‘_Rob._ Wind once more,’. Page lxxiii note. Changed “It is from þæðan, _venari_, _fugare_)” to “It is from þæðan, _venari_, _fugare_”. Page c note. The phrase “fr ðes”, retained, might be an error; perhaps it should read “friðes”? Page ci. “16:h” to “16th”. Page cv note. Changed “in 1621 (the very date, by the way, which appears on Mr. Tollet’s window,” to “in 1621 (the very date, by the way, which appears on Mr. Tollet’s window),”. Page cviii. Added right parenthesis after “1783, p. 255.” to balance the left parenthesis before “See Steevens’s”.