Editing Robin Hood (section)

===All Saints' Church at Pontefract===
[[File:The New Church within the Old, All Saints, Bondgate, Pontefract. - geograph.org.uk - 239265.jpg|thumb|The new church within the old. After [[All Saints' Church, Pontefract]] was damaged during the [[English Civil War]], a new brick chapel was built within its ruins in 1967]]

Another theory is that Robin Hood died at Kirkby, Pontefract. [[Michael Drayton]]'s ''[[Poly-Olbion]]'' Song 28 (67–70), published in 1622, speaks of Robin Hood's death and clearly states that the outlaw died at 'Kirkby'.<ref>David Hepworth, "A Grave Tale", in ''Robin Hood: Medieval and Post-Medieval'', ed. by Helen Phillips (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2005) pp. 91–112 (p. 94.)</ref> This is consistent with the view that Robin Hood operated in the Went Valley, located three miles to the southeast of the town of Pontefract. The location is approximately three miles from the site of Robin's robberies at the now famous Saylis. In the Anglo-Saxon period, Kirkby was home to [[All Saints' Church, Pontefract]]. All Saints' Church had a priory hospital attached to it. The Tudor historian Richard Grafton stated that the prioress who murdered Robin Hood buried the outlaw beside the road,

<blockquote>Where he had used to rob and spoyle those that passed that way ... and the cause why she buryed him there was, for that common strangers and travailers, knowing and seeing him there buryed, might more safely and without feare take their journeys that way, which they durst not do in the life of the sayd outlaes.<ref>Grafton, Richard, ''A Chronicle at Large'' (London: 1569) p. 84 in Early English Books Online.</ref></blockquote>

All Saints' Church at Kirkby, modern Pontefract, which was located approximately three miles from the site of Robin Hood's robberies at the Saylis, is consistent with Richard Grafton's description because a road ran directly from Wentbridge to the hospital at Kirkby.<ref>La' Chance, A, "The Origins and Development of Robin Hood". Kapelle, William E., ''The Norman Conquest of the North: The Region and Its Transformation, 1000–1135'' (London: Croom Helm, 1979).</ref>