Robin Hood and the tanner: or, Robin Hood met with his match; a merry and pleasant song, relating the gallant and fierce combat between Arthur a Bland, a tanner of Nottinghamshire, and Robin Hood, the greatest archer of England. Tune is, Robin Hood and the stranger, &c.

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PML 3469.4
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London : printed by and for W. O[nley]. and sold by the booksellers of Pye-corner and London-bridge, [between 1695 and 1700?]
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1 sheet ([1] page) : illustration (woodcut) ; (full-sheet)
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Printer's name and imprint date from Wing CD-ROM.
Verse - "In Nottingham there lives a jolly tanner,".
copy: 27 x 30.5 cm.
Printed in four columns in black letter; one woodcut below caption title of three men armed with bows and a pole ax (i.e. Robin Hood, Little John, and Will Scarlet?).
Refrain: with a hey down down a down down, [line 2 of each stanza].
Standard tune: Robin Hood and the stranger.

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First line: In Nottingham there lives a jolly tanner

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Broadside
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