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

by Richard Denham

The fact that a justice of the peace is specifically mentioned implies that this story is set in the sixteenth century, not earlier, when justices had yet to come into their own.

Hereward the Wake, unlike the last two contenders, is undeniably real, but while the stories of Robin Hood became popular as a result of the written ballads of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries,

Disinhereted noble motif starts with Hereward