Loxly, the name given to Robin in the present ballad, is, according to the Life in the Sloane MS., a town in Yorkshire, “or after others in Nottinghamshire,” where Robin was born. The ballad of Robin Hood’s Birth, Breeding, etc., following the same tradition, or invention, says “Locksly town in Nottinghamshire.” It appears from Spencer Hall’s Forester’s Offering, London, 1841, that there is a Loxley Chase near Sheffield, in Yorkshire, and a Loxley River too: Gutch, I, 75. Finsbury field was long a noted place for the practice of archery. In the year 1498, says Stow, all the gardens which had continued time out of mind without Moorgate, to wit, about and beyond the lordship of Fensberry, were destroyed. And of them was made a plain field for archers to shoot in. Survey of London, 1598, p. 351, cited, with other things pertinent, by Ritson, Robin Hood, 1795, II, 86 f. R. H. and the Shepherd, R. H. rescuing Will Stutly, and R. H.’s Delight, are directed to be sung to the tune of R. H. and Queen Katherine, #B#, and may therefore be inferred to be of later date. R. H.’s Progress to Nottingham is to be sung to “Bold Robin Hood,” and as this conjunction of words occurs several times in R. H. and Queen Katherine, and the burden and its disposition, in the Progress to Nottingham, are the same as in R. H. and Queen Katherine, “Bold Robin Hood” may indicate this present ballad. R. H. and Queen Katherine, #C#, is directed to be sung to the tune of The Pinder of Wakefield. R. H.’s Chase is a sequel to R. H. and Queen Katherine. Translated by Anastasius Grün, p. 172. A Percy MS., p. 15; Hales and Furnivall, I, 37. 1 Now list you, lithe you, gentlemen, A while for a litle space, And I shall tell you how Queene Katterine Gott Robin Hood his grace. 2 Gold taken from the kings harbengers Seldome times hath beene seene, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . * * * * * 3 . . . . . . . ‘Queene Katherine, I say to thee;’ ‘That’s a princly wager,’ q_uo_th Queene Katherine, ‘Betweene yo_u_r grace and me. 4 ‘Where must I haue mine archers?’ says Queene Katherine; ‘You haue the flower of archery:’ ‘Now take yo_u_r choice, dame,’ he sayes, ‘Thorow out all England free. 5 ‘Yea from North Wales to Westchester, And also to Couentry; And when you haue chosen the best you can, The wager must goe w_i_th mee.’ 6 ‘If that prooue,’ says Queene Katherine, ‘Soone that wilbe tride and knowne; Many a man counts of another mans pursse, And after looseth his owne.’ 7 The queene is to her palace gone, To her page thus shee can say: Come hither to me, Dicke Patrinton, Trusty and trew this day. 8 Thou must bring me the names of my archers all, All strangers must they bee, Yea from North Wales to West Chester, And alsoe to Couentrie.