Verb
hode (third-person singular simple present hodes, present participle hoding, simple past and past participle hoded)
(transitive, obsolete) To ordain; consecrate; admit to a religious order.
A Gest of Robyn Hode states that the outlaw built a chapel in Barnsdale that he dedicated to Mary Magdalene, :I made a chapel in Bernysdale, :That seemly is to se, :It is of Mary Magdaleyne, :And thereto wolde I be. Source: Internet
And, while Wentbridge is not directly named in A Gest of Robyn Hode, the poem does appear to make a cryptic reference to the locality by depicting a poor knight explaining to Robin Hood that he 'went at a bridge' where there was wrestling'. Source: Internet
Child Ballads 117A:210, ie A Gest of Robyn Hode stanza 210 As it happens the next traveller is not poor, but it seems in context that Robin Hood is stating a general policy. Source: Internet
The surname "Hood" (or Hude or Hode etc.) was also fairly common because it referred either to a Hooder, who was a maker of hoods ; or alternatively to somebody who wore a hood as a head-covering. Source: Internet