Reresby

It is to these that Reresby turns his critical glare before joining Professor Holt - author of a 1982 debunking of the Nottingham connection - to conclude that Robin Hood was an amalgam of different legendary sources and one actual mid-14th century event.

Archive 2007-05-01 2007

But do not read it if you're a Nottingham person, for Reresby feels constrained, while praising Nottingham for having the prettiest girls, to quote the monkish medieval Latin doggerel, translated in the 17th century: I cannot without lye and shame

Archive 2007-05-01 2007

It is to these that Reresby turns his critical glare before joining Professor Holt - author of a 1982 debunking of the Nottingham connection - to conclude that Robin Hood was an amalgam of different legendary sources and one actual mid-14th century event.

Derbyshire's all of a quiver over Robin Hood's bow... 2007

But do not read it if you're a Nottingham person, for Reresby feels constrained, while praising Nottingham for having the prettiest girls, to quote the monkish medieval Latin doggerel, translated in the 17th century: I cannot without lye and shame

Derbyshire's all of a quiver over Robin Hood's bow... 2007

Rivella informs us that when Tilly's first wife died in December 1702, Delarivier nobly sacrificed her love to allow him to marry a widowed heiress, Margaret Smith (née Reresby), and repair his fortunes.

Delarivier Manley (c. 1663-1724) 2001

He is described by Reresby as "the first gentleman of person and wit I think I ever saw," and Burnet bears the same testimony.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various

We may see that Reresby, a statesman and a soldier, had not as yet "plucked the old woman out of his heart."

Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft 1885

The social change of the Restoration is illustrated by the picture of court life in Anthony Hamilton's "Memoirs of the Count de Grammont," by the memoirs of Reresby, Pepys, and Evelyn, and the dramatic works of

History of the English People, Volume VI (of 8) Puritan England, 1642-1660; The Revolution, 1660-1683 John Richard Green 1860

In the midst of the terror and panic of the Plot men "wondered to see him quite cheerful amidst such an intricacy of troubles," says the courtly Reresby, "but it was not in his nature to think or perplex himself much about anything."

History of the English People, Volume VI (of 8) Puritan England, 1642-1660; The Revolution, 1660-1683 John Richard Green 1860

But closer observers than Reresby saw beneath this veil of indolent unconcern a consciousness of new danger.

History of the English People, Volume VI (of 8) Puritan England, 1642-1660; The Revolution, 1660-1683 John Richard Green 1860