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Francis Child indexed those tales: A Gest of Robyn Hode as Child Ballad 117, Robin Hood's Death as Child ballad 120, and Robin Hood Newly Revived as Child ballad 128.

He also listed several other ballads featuring Will Scarlet, sometimes in a very minor role.

In Robin Hood's Delight ( Child Ballad 136 ), the common story in which Robin meets a stranger, cannot outfight him, and must outwit him is altered: Robin has Little John and Will with him, and they meet three foresters, resulting in the usual fight and outwitting.

In Robin Hood and the Curtal Friar ( Child Ballad 123 ), Will Scarlet tells Robin of the friar, resulting in their encounter.

In Robin Hood and Guy of Gisbourne ( Child Ballad 118 ), Little John is captured coming to Will's rescue after two of their band had been killed and Will was fleeing.

In an unusual Robin Hood ballad Robin Hood and the Prince of Aragon ( Child ballad 129 ), Robin, Little John, and Will Scarlet come to the king's rescue, fighting the prince of the title and two giants, and ending with Will marrying the princess ; this ballad, unlike the other Child ballads, is seldom used in later adaptations.