3-047-203 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Robin Hood at the May-Day Revels', 1932. The Sheriff of Nottingham '...brooded over the indignities to which he had been subjected by Robin Hood, and...after much cogitation, devised a means whereby he hoped to get his enemy into his power...he made a proclamation that this year the May-Day revels would be rendered especially attractive by an archery tournament, in which all the best bowmen of the North were invited to take part...He also let it be known that fair treatment and safe-conduct would be meted out to all comers, reckoning that this tempting bait would lure Robin and his companions into the city, and once there, he made a vow that they should not again escape him'. From "Robin Hood and His Life in the Merry Greenwood", by Rose Yeatman Woolf, illustrated by Howard Davie. [Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd, London, 1932]