Editing Robin Hood (section)

===Child ballads===

In the decades following the publication of Ritson's book, other ballad collections would occasionally publish stray Robin Hood ballads Ritson had missed. In 1806, [[Robert Jamieson (antiquary)|Robert Jamieson]] published the earliest known Robin Hood ballad, ''[[Robin Hood and the Monk]]'' in Volume II of his ''Popular Ballads and Songs From Tradition''. In 1846, the [[Percy Society]] included [[The Bold Pedlar and Robin Hood]] in its collection, ''Ancient Poems, Ballads, and Songs of the Peasantry of England''. In 1850, [[John Mathew Gutch]] published his own collection of Robin Hood ballads, ''Robin Hood Garlands and Ballads, with the tale of the lytell Geste'', that in addition to all of Ritson's collection, also included [[Robin Hood and the Pedlars]] and [[Robin Hood and the Scotchman]].

In 1858, [[Francis James Child]] published his ''English and Scottish Ballads'' which included a volume grouping all the Robin Hood ballads in one volume, including all the ballads published by Ritson, the four stray ballads published since then, as well as some ballads that either mentioned Robin Hood by name or featured characters named Robin Hood but weren't traditional Robin Hood stories. For his more scholarly work, ''[[The English and Scottish Popular Ballads]]'', in his volume dedicated to the Robin Hood ballads, published in 1888, Child removed the ballads from his earlier work that weren't traditional Robin Hood stories, gave the ballad Ritson titled ''Robin Hood and the Stranger'' back its original published title [[Robin Hood Newly Revived]], and separated what Ritson had printed as the second part of ''Robin Hood and the Stranger'' as its own separate ballad, [[Robin Hood and the Prince of Aragon]]. He also included alternate versions of ballads that had distinct, alternate versions. He numbered these 38 Robin Hood ballads among the 305 ballads in his collection as Child Ballads Nos 117–154, which is how they're often referenced in scholarly works.