The early compilation, A Gest of Robyn Hode, names the king as " Edward ", and while it does show Robin Hood as accepting the King's pardon he later repudiates it and returns to the greenwood.

The first printed version is A Gest of Robyn Hode ( c. 1475 ), a collection of separate stories which attempts to unite the episodes into a single continuous narrative.

No extant ballad actually shows Robin Hood " giving to the poor ", although in a " A Gest of Robyn Hode " Robin does make a large loan to an unfortunate knight which he does not in the end require to be repaid ; and later in the same ballad Robin Hood states his intention of giving money to the next traveller to come down the road if he happens to be poor.

In the early ballads Robin's men usually kneel before him in strict obedience: in A Gest of Robyn Hode the king even observes that " His men are more at his byddynge / Then my men be at myn.

Some appear only once or twice in a ballad: Will Stutely in Robin Hood Rescuing Will Stutly and Robin Hood and Little John ; David of Doncaster in Robin Hood and the Golden Arrow ; Gilbert with the White Hand in A Gest of Robyn Hode ; and Arthur a Bland in Robin Hood and the Tanner.

For example, the plot of Robin Hood's Death, found in the Percy Folio, is summarised in the 15th-century A Gest of Robyn Hode, and it also appears in an 18th-century version.

* A Gest of Robyn Hode

In A Gest of Robyn Hode, he captures the sorrowful knight and, when Robin Hood decides to pay the knight's mortgage for him, accompanies him as a servant.

The ballads vary in age ; for instance, the manuscript of " Judas " dates to the thirteenth century and a version of " A Gest of Robyn Hode " was printed in the late fifteenth or early sixteenth century.

Again, in the original " A Gest of Robyn Hode ", the life of an anonymous wrestler, who had won a bout but was likely to be murdered because he was a stranger, is saved.

Ballads from the High Middle Ages published in the Child Ballads such as A Gest of Robyn Hode, Robin Hood and the Monk, Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne, and Robin Hood and the Potter, as well as Sir Walter Scott's 1820 novel Ivanhoe all point to a possible South Yorkshire birth for the legend.

He appears in some of the oldest ballads, A Gest of Robyn Hode and Robin Hood and the Monk, as one of the company.

Both are variants of the episode in the much older " Gest of Robyn Hode " in which Robin robs a monk.

The first appearance of Will Scarlet was in one of the oldest surviving Robin Hood ballads, A Gest of Robyn Hode.

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.

In the earliest medieval ballads of Robin Hood, the ' bold outlaw ' is stated as having made Barnsdale Forest his abode and base of operations ( as an example, see A Gest of Robyn Hode ).

) The theory supplies Robin Hood with a wife, Matilda, thought to be the origin of Maid Marian, and Hunter also conjectured that the author of the Gest may have been the religious poet Richard Rolle ( 1290 – 1349 ), who lived in the village of Hampole in Barnsdale.

Comparing the available records with especially the Gest and also other ballads, Hunter developed a fairly detailed theory according to which Robin Hood was an adherent of the rebel Earl of Lancaster, defeated at the Battle of Boroughbridge in 1322.

The plots of neither " the Monk " nor " the Potter " are included in the Gest ; and neither is the plot of " Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne " which is probably at least as old as those two ballads although preserved in a more recent copy.

However, she refused to accept this and with the help of vocal and dance lessons ( most notably with Sam Harris, Angela Bacari ), which she still takes daily, managed to recover and returned to the stage in 2001 when asked by long-time friend Michael Jackson to perform at Madison Square Garden in New York City where she sang " Never Never Land " and the televised " You Are Not Alone " at the Michael Jackson: 30th Anniversary Special concert produced by soon to be husband David Gest.

From the beginning Robin Hood is on the side of the poor ; the Gest quotes Robin Hood as instructing his men that when they rob:

( The Gest does relate that Robin Hood was pardoned by " King Edward " and taken into his service.

There are certainly parallels between Godberd's career and that of Robin Hood as he appears in the Gest.

Printed versions of the Robin Hood ballads, generally based on the Gest, appear in the early 16th century, shortly after the introduction of printing in England.

" He also published three plays: The Rout of the Philistines ( with Nino Marcelli, 1922 ), A Gest of Robin Hood ( with Robert C. Newell, 1929 ), and Ivanhoe: A Grove Play 1936.

A Gest of Robin Hood.

The story of Robin's aid to the " poor knight " that takes up much of the Gest may be an example.

John Marshall Gest, writing in the Yale Law Journal, notes that " There are few principles of the common law that can be studied without an examination of Coke's Institutes and Reports which summed up the legal learning of his time ", although " the student is deterred by the too common abuse of Coke's character and the general criticism of his writings as dry, crabbed, verbose and pedantic ".

The town is divided into six wards: Gest, Morfa Bychan, Porthmadog East, Porthmadog West, Tremadog and Ynys Galch.

A couple of words, strato ( street ) and gisto ( yeast ), are closer to Dutch ( straat, gist ) than German ( Straße, Gest ), but this may be a compromise between German and English the way ŝtono ( stone ) is a compromise between German Stein and English.

Gest et al .’ s ( 2008 ) research findings reveal that peer acceptance has a significant impact on one ’ s self-concept by age 5, affecting children ’ s behaviour and academic success.

It featured guests Miss Ireland, Bláthnaid McKenna and boxer Frank Bruno as well as Mr. Gest who was unable to be interviewed as Lucy Kennedy, venturing into his dressing room, discovered he had turned into an ape.

In 1925 the duo received an offer from the New York theatrical producer Morris Gest and went to the United States where they performed together on the Keith / Albee and Orpheum vaudeville circuits in which they accompanied a ballet troupe run by the Austrian ballerina Albertina Rasch.

The brothers appeared on the show This Is David Gest in 2007, including recording the theme tune Crazy Kinda Guy.

She continues to provide backing vocals while in the UK regularly tours with David Gest where she duets with some of the artists, as well as providing backing vocals for the other artists on the show.

In spring 2007, she teamed, as a judge, with David Ian, David Gest and choreographer Brian Friedman on ITV's musical talent search series, Grease Is The Word.

Bust of John B. Gest on the Smith Memorial Arch

In 1813, his father died, and his father ’ s second cousin John Gest was appointed guardian over him and his five siblings.

The early ballads give a number of possible historical clues: notably, the Gest names the reigning king as " Edward ", but the ballads cannot be assumed to be reliable in such details.

Gest was so impressed with her stamina and ability to stun audiences that he produced her in Liza's Back in spring 2002 performing to rave reviews in London and New York City.

She was married to David Gest, a concert promoter, from March 16, 2002, until they divorced in April 2007.

McDonald remains an occasional " special guest " and has joined the group for benefits, private corporate shows and parties ( such as the wedding reception of Liza Minnelli and David Gest ), as well.

They appeared in an episode where Gest took cameras for a rare glimpse of the Jackson family house in Encino, California, where he met Tito and 3T as well as matriarch Katherine Jackson, as well as a later episode showing them recording the theme tune.