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Message: <blockquote data-quote="aramis erak" data-source="post: 9743881" data-attributes="member: 6779310">Tuck was as violent as the rest of the Merry Men in the legends. More so in more modern retellings. Blessing the men to go and do political violence in the lip service of giving to the poor.If there was a real friar Tuck,  the good friar, by taking up with declared outlaws like Sir Robin of Locksley (the most likely historical namesake), broke his vows, abandoned his community of Clergy, was violating the Benedictine and/or Franciscan Rule (Dominicans follow the Benedictine, just for reference, so the Black, White and Brown friars of legendary use are all covered.) - no friar is to be alone away from the house; always a fellow friar with him. Also, that he gives blessings implies ordination to the deaconate... if not priesthood.The only possibility for an exception would be if he were master of a chapter of the third order of St Francis, and a number of the Merry Men were Third Order Franciscans. (The Third order are clergy living a simplified version of the rule of St. Francis. Third Order Benedictines and Dominicans live two different flavors of relaxed Benedictine rule.)</blockquote>