Green’s Dictionary of Slang

a rustic, a simpleton.

1603		Dekker Wonderfull Yeare 46: Leaue them in the vnmercifull hands of the Country-hard-hearted Hobbinolls.
1618		Owles almanacke 40: All the Hobbinols of the Countrey shall arme their high shooes with your metall to encounter with London stones.
c.1642		T. Killigrew Parson’s Wedding (1664) I iii: Who, Mr Jeoffry? Hobinol the second; by this life, ’tis a very Veal, and he licks his Nose like one of them.
c.1698		B.E. Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Hobbinal, the same [i.e. as hob n.].
1710		Mr. Phillips Sixth Pastoral 20: [characters] Geron. Hobbinol. Lanquet.
1720		M. Concanen ‘A Match at Football’ in A. Carpenter Verse in Eng. in 18C Ireland (1998) 91: At length Old Hobbinol the Crowd addrest.
1748		Scots Mag. 1 Dec. 23/2: The village-youth now frolic on the green [...] While hum’rous Hobbinol aukward antics plays.
c.1770		‘Hobbinoll & Doll’ Buck’s Delight 8: Hobbinoll entreated Doll, / Within the grove to enter.
1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.