HUNTINGDON. 285 X. 1219, G. Joitn (Le Scot;, Earl of Huntingdon and Cam- to bridge, 3<1 and yst. but only surv. s. and li., .w<c. his father iu these I'Vil. Earldoms, 12 June 1219, and having by the death, 2 > Oct. 1 132, of his maternal uncle,. Randolph (DE 1Si.undbvm.lk), Haul of Chested, inherited the whole County Palatine of Cheater was cr. at Northamp- ton, 21 Nov. 1232, EARL OP CHESTER. See fuller particulars of him under that dignity. He d. s.p. 7 June 1237, when all hit honours became extinct. Konix Hood, alias Robert Fitzootii, popularly known as EARL OF HUNTINGDON 1 , may (if the dates usually assigned to him are to be credited) be inserted here as one to whom this Earldom has frequently been attributed. He is said to have been born at Loxl«jr(*j about. 1100 and to have died at Kirklees Abbey, co. York, 18 Nov. 1247. His claim to this Earldom is presumed to have been in right of some descent from, or connection with, the family of Saint Lis( b ) and to have been put forward in 1184 on the death s.p. of Karl Simon and renewed in 1237 on the death s.p. of Karl John. XI. 1337, Sir "William Cmnto.v, yr. s. of John, 1st Lord to Clinton, by Ida, da. and coheir of William de Odingsei.ls, of 1351. Maxtock. co. Warwick, b. about 130-1 ; knighted, 1324 ; having m. iu 1329 Juliana, widow of Thomas Le Blount, relict (formerly) of Juhn (Hastings), Loud HASTINGS, da. of Thomas Levbi'dne (by Alice be Tom), and grandaughter and h. of William, Lord Leyblhne, acquired by that match a considerable position and was sum. to Pari, as a Baron (LORD CLINTON) from 0 Sep. (1330), 4 Kd. III., to 14 Jan. (133(1/7), 10 Kd. III. He was Ch. Justice of Chester, 13:10 ; Warden of the Cinque Ports, 1330 ; P.C., 1333; Admiral of the ( a ) Loxley, co. Warwick, was possessed by a family of Fitz Odo, or Fitzooth, iu the 12th century ; there is, however, n Loxley near Sheffield, in Yorkshire, and another in Staffordshire. The ^tuueh cunt i averted) epitaph (at Kirklees) is as follows — " Here undernead dis laitl steal] Laiz Hubert, Maul of Huntington, Nea aiciv ver [no archer was] az hie sa geud All pip] [people] kauld im Robin Heud, Sick utlaus [such outlaws] az hi an iz men Vfl England nivr si [never see] agent. Obiit 24 [read 14] Kal. Decembris, 1247. The whole matter is ably (and most interestingly) treated of by J. R. Vlanche in " A ramble, with Rabin Hood ; a paper read at Nottingham July 22nd, 1864," pub. iu the " Arch. Soc. of tho dioc. of Lincoln." The writer shews good grounds for believing that such an outlaw certainly, at some date, existed and most probably about the period above indicated. He protests against "the positive assertion" to the contrary and to the theory that " Huntingdon " is merely " an allusive soubriquet to an outlawed forester living on the spoils of the chose," " Robin Hood " being a derivative from Hobin o' the Wood And compared to that of "Ro'oiu Goodfellow," William of Cloudesley being identical with " Will o' the Wisp," and Little John with
- Jack o' Lantern." The derivation of " Uood from Fitzooth. or Fil:hooth is pretty-
intelligible, being on the same principle as " undernead " and "dis "stand for " under- neath " and "this" in his epitaph and as "nord" and " sud " stand for " north " and " south." ( b ) Hobin Hood's father is said to 1 tave been William Fitzooth, s. and h. of Ralph Fitzwooth or Fitzwilt, by Maud, da, of Gilbert de Gaut, which lady's sister, A'ice, was wife of Simon (Saint Liz), Earl of Huntingdon, 1174 to 1184. See Mr. Plane'ie's tract as iu note next above. Leiand, who wrote temp. Hen, VII., speaks of Robin Hood [Collectanea i, 54], as " Nobilis ille cxul," while Grafton (the Chronicler) mentions a pamphlet, stating that "this man descended of noble parentage." He is said to have been called " Simon of the Lee " (Saint Liz) in his own country. See also " N. and Q.," 7th s., vol. iii (passim), sub " Who was Hobin Hood?"
