Robin Hood: English Outlaw (the origins of the legend and the search for a historical Robin Hood)

by Richard Denham

The Puritans detested Robin because he was associated with, at best, the Catholic faith and more probably, an earlier pagan past. Philip

Robin was catholic, though he was fiercly against the excesses of the clergy, so the church hated him, the protestants hated him too, foe his pagan adoption (similarity to cernnonus) and for his catholicism.