The Sherwood Forest area was a zone of persistent low-level conflict between the crown and those dispossessed by forest law. Following the unpopular forest expansion under the Normans and the heavy taxation of John\'s reign, the forest became a refuge for outlaws, dispossessed knights and villeins. The legend of Robin Hood draws on a real tradition of armed resistance in this area. The Nottingham castle garrison regularly conducted punitive sweeps into the forest, and ambushes of royal officials are documented in forest eyre records of the period.
Royal foresters and sheriffs; armed outlaw bands of varying size
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