![]() ![]() Mark Ryan has to hold his stomach in as he has put on a few pounds. Nasir and Sarak have a sword fight with their upper bodies oiled up. The homoeroticsm is dialled up in this episode. The new Sheriff just wants to manhandle Guy. He is a bit intelligent here calling the old Sheriff and Robin Hood as two sides of the same coin. However he does not quiet have the handle on Guy of Gisburne yet. The episode is written by Anthony Horowitz and he shakes things up a bit. They are bound together by their past history. Meanwhile Sarak has a score to settle with Nasir. They have an unlikely ally with the deposed Sheriff. Robin and the Merries are forced to attempt a rescue. The new Sheriff orders the rounding up of some villagers of Wickham everyday and have them executed. Guy of Gisburne gets to stay as the Sheriff is looking for a new plaything. The old Sheriff is banished after he calls Philip Mark a catamite. Philip Mark who has earned a reputation for himself after clearing up bandits in Lincoln, arrives as the new Sheriff accompanied by his deadly Saracen Sarak. More camp than Nickolas Grace! In this episode. The press leaked that Lewis Collins was going to be the new Sheriff of Nottingham and shock horror he was going to be rather camp. Courtesy of The Robin Hood Project, The University of Rochester.Before series 3 aired. Portrait images: Louis Rhead, 'Bold Robin Hood and His Outlaw Band: Their Famous Exploits in Sherwood Forest'. He claimed that Robin was active in 1193-4 when Richard had left the crusades and was being held prisoner in Germany. Modern historians on the trail of the original Robin are getting ever closer to the date Major claims for the legendary Robin, so he may be right after all. The modern tradition linking Robin with King Richard and Prince John comes thanks to a Scottish writer called John Major who wrote a History of Greater Britain in 1521. And while the King was fighting in the crusades his wicked brother Prince John wreaked havoc at home taxing the people of England. We now accept that Robin Hood lived at the time of Richard the Lionheart. The price received for their capture was the same as that for a dangerous wolf. 'Wolfshead' became an alternative name for an outlaw. The fact that this involved hacking off the head of an outlaw resisting arrest - to prove that you had done your job - would not have bothered anybody at the time. He was just a man making a living, who was of similar rank to Robin Hood. He was not originally an evil knight who was particularly close to the Sheriff or Prince John. ![]() He would've been glad to use freelance bounty hunters to capture outlaws and bandits 'dead or alive'. Often the Sheriff had to raise a temporary posse of armed men to enforce the law. In a time when there wasn't a police force, the law needed all the help it could get. Mainly because they're on opposite sides of the law. Guy is Robin's enemy from the very start. Contrary to popular belief, Guy of Gisborne was not a knight working for the Sheriff. Guy of GisborneĪ bounty hunter, Guy has one of the original tales all to himself, Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne. He also lived in the right time and place to deal with Robert Hode, our possible original Robin. He covered all the right jobs to trouble Robin. So who was the real Sheriff? Eustace of Lowdham, Sheriff of Yorkshire is the most likely candidate to form the basis of the Sheriff of Nottingham. He was the Sheriff of Yorkshire 1225-6, Forest Justice north of the Trent 1226, and Sheriff of Nottinghamshire 1232-3. They were the King’s representative in each county and were charged with keeping the peace and upholding the law. Sheriff's were powerful men in medieval society. Yet he's also a comic foil, often being humiliated as seen in Robin Hood and the Potter. He's a seriously dangerous opponent in Robin Hood and the Monk who commands a powerful body of men to capture Robin at St Mary’s Church in Nottingham. The Sheriff veers between serious and comedy roles. The hatred between Robin Hood and the Sheriff forms a fundamental part of the tales.
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