Editing Robin Hood (section)

===Forresters Manuscript===
In 1993, a previously unknown manuscript of 21 Robin Hood ballads (including two versions of "[[The Jolly Pinder of Wakefield]]") turned up in an auction house and eventually wound up in the [[British Library]]. Called The [[Forresters Manuscript]], after the first and last ballads, which are both titled Robin Hood and the Forresters, it was published in 1998 as ''Robin Hood: The Forresters Manuscript''. It appears to have been written in the 1670s.<ref>Robin Hood: The Forresters Manuscript, p. xxiii</ref> While all the ballads in the Manuscript had already been known and published during the 17th and 18th centuries (although most of the ballads in the Manuscript have different titles then ones they have listed under the Child Ballads), 13 of the ballads in Forresters are noticeably different from how they appeared in the broadsides and garlands. Nine of these ballads are significantly longer and more elaborate than the versions of the same ballads found in the broadsides and garlands. For four of these ballads, the Forresters Manuscript versions are the earliest known versions.