 In 1087, a poem called "The Rime of King William" contained in the Peterborough Chronicle, expressed English indignation at the severe new laws.Poaching was romanticised in literature from the time of the ballads of Robin Hood, as an aspect of the "greenwood" of Merry England; in one tale, Robin Hood is depicted as offering King Richard the Lion Heart venison from deer illegally hunted in the Sherwood Forest, the King overlooking the fact that this hunting was a capital offence.The widespread acceptance of this common criminal activity is encapsulated in the observation "Non est inquirendum, unde venit venison" ("It is not to be inquired, whence comes the venison"), made by Guillaume Budé in his "Traitte de la vénerie".