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The figure of Tuck was more common in the May Games festivals of England and Scotland , during the 15th through 17th centuries. He appears as a character in the fragment of a Robin Hood play from 1475 , sometimes called "Robin Hood and the Knight" or "Robin Hood and the Sheriff", and a play published in 1560 which tells a story similar to that of the Curtal Friar ballad. It has often been argued that the character entered the tradition through these folk plays, and that he may have originally been partnered with Maid Marian . What follows is a story composited from different versions of the legend. He was a former Monk of Fountains Abbey (or in some cases, St Mary's Abbey in York which is also the scene of some other Robin Hood tales) who was expelled by his order because of his lack of respect for authority. Because of this, and in spite of his taste for good food and wine, he becomes the Spiritual Leader of Robin's band. In some tales he is depicted as a physically fit man and a skilled swordsman and archer with a hot-headed temper. However most commonly Tuck is depicted as a Fat , Bald and jovial Monk with a great love of Ale . Sometimes the latter depiction of Tuck is the Comic Relief of the tale. Two royal writs in 1417 refer to Robert Stafford , a Sussex Chaplain who had assumed the alias of Frere Tuk. This "Friar Tuck" was still at large in 1429 . These are the earliest surviving references to a character by that name. EXTERNAL LINKS
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