“I kan noght parfitly my Paternoster as the preest it syngeth,
But I kan rymes of Robyn Hood and Randolf Erl of Chestre.”

— William Langland, book Piers Plowman

B-text, Passus 5, line 395
This is the earliest known mention of the legend of Robin Hood. No rhymes of Randolf, Earl of Chester have survived.
Piers Plowman

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