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After robbing the person of his money and horse, and requested to be remembered in his prayers, Robin road off for Stratford. On the road he fell with a rich country dealer going to purchase goods at Lancaster, with whom he soon got acquainted, and they travelled together ; but the merchant as so close, that Robin could make nothing of him. On reaching Coventry, where they dined together, and drank ome good wine and ale, Robin told his fellow-traveller, that as the roads they had to travel were so dangerous, the safest way was to conceal their money in their boots, and on seeing Robin deposite a bag of gold, the merchant did the same. They again continued their journey until they came to part of the road which crossed two ways, where Robin pulled of the merchant’s boots, in which he got three hundred pieces of gold, and rode off for Sherwood Forest. At one time, when the finances of the merry men were very low, they resolved to plunder the rich convent of St. Mary, and to carry off the image of the Holy Virgin, which was of solid silver. Under the disguise of a poor