[41] That is, the inn so called, upon Ludgate Hill. The modern sign, which, however, seems to have been the same 200 years ago, is a bell and a wild man; but the original is supposed to have been a beautiful Indian; and the inscription, _La belle sauvage_. Some, indeed, assert that the inn once belonged to a Lady Arabella Savage; and others, that its name, originally _The bell and savage_, arose (like _The George and blue boar_) from the junction of two inns, with those respective signs. Non nostrûm est tantas componere lites. [42] She is called the Widow Scarlet; so that Scathlocke was the elder brother. In fact, however, it was mere ignorance in the author to suppose the Scathlocke and Scarlet of the story distinct persons, the latter name being an evident corruption of the former; Scathlock, Scadlock, Scarlock, Scarlet. [43] In “The booke of the inventary of the goods of my lord admeralles men tacken the 10 of Marche in the yeare 1598,” are the following properties for Robin Hood and his retinue in this identical play: “_Item_, . . . . i green gown for Maryan. _Item_, vi grene cottes for Roben Hoode, and iiii knaves sewtes. _Item_, i hatte for Robin Hoode, i hobihorse. _Item_, Roben Hoodes sewtte. _Item_, the fryers trusse in Roben Hoode.” Malone’s _Shak._ II. ii. (Emen. & ad.) [44] George a Greene and Wakefield’s pinner were one and the same person. The shoemaker of Bradford is anonymous. [45] Which, by the way, was termed a _hempen caudle_. See the _Second Part of K. H. VI._, act iv. scene 7. Lord-Chancellor Jeffries, at the revolution, was treated much in the same manner. One day, during his confinement in the Tower, he received a barrel of oysters, upon which he observed to his keeper, “Well, you see, I have yet some friends left:” at the bottom of the barrel, however, he found a halter; which changed his countenance, and is even thought to have hastened his death. [46] See the ballad of “The Jolly Pinder of Wakefield,” part ii. num. iii. [47] Fitzwater confounds one man with another; Harold Harefoot was the son and successor of Canute the great. [48] This tradition is referred to, and the inscription given, in Ray’s Itineraries, 1760, p. 153:—“We rode through a bushet or common called Rodwell-hake, two miles from Leeds, where (according to the vulgar tradition) was once found a stag, with a ring of brass about its neck, having this inscription: When Julius Cæsar here was king, About my neck he put this ring; Whosoever doth me take, Let me go for Cæsar’s sake.”