1400–1404, Liber fundacionis ecclesię Sancti Bartholomei Londoniarum (British Library, Cotton MS.Vespasian B.ix: The Book of the Foundation of the Church of St. Bartholomew, London) in The Records of St. Bartholomew’s Priory and of the Church and Parish St. Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield, ed. Edward Alfred Webb, volume I (1921), appendix I, liber ii, capitulum ix: “Of a yonge man Robert by name”, pages 415–416:
A certeyn yonge cumly of person, Robert by name, from his yonge age norysshid yn courte, from Northampton purposid to London. And it happid hym, thorow a thyke woode to make his passage, where he wery of his jorney, toke his reste, on the grownd and a while with a litill slepe recreate hym, that his way begon, the swyfterly he myght parforme; but loo whyle he sowghte reest, he fownde labur, and whan he wolde with a litill reest his wery lymys refresshe he was yntanglyd with the snarys of his ennemy.
