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The Sheriff’s servant Speaker 1 Speaker 2 Speaker 3 Speaker 4

A pupil stands up with a large card with these words: The Sheriffs castle in Nottingham.

SCENE 1 Sherwood Forest.

Listen. The Sheriff is in his castle in Nottingham.

(Knocks and enters). Where’s the Sheriff?

Here. What do you want? Who are those men?

They’re Saxons. We caught them in the forest. They’ve killed one of the King’s deer.

(angrily). What? Did I hear correctly? Killed one of the King’s deer?

We had to kill the deer.

We had no food.

How often must I tell your people? The forest and the animals in it belong to the King and only the King. Nobody is allowed to kill my animals. (To the guard.) Hang them.

We were hungry. We had nothing to eat.

Hang them!

It’s not fair. We must pay money to the King and money to the Church. We must work for you — Normans. We have no money to buy food or clothes. How can we live.

Take them away. (Shout as they leave.) You’ll be hung tomorrow! (Laughs.)

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