Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Age of Chivalry, or Legends of King Arthur
It is evident that the justice administered by such an instrumentality must have been of the rudest description. The force whose legitimate purpose was to redress wrongs, might easily be perverted to in?ict them. Accordingly, we find in the romances, which, however fabulous in facts, are true as pic tures of manners, that a knightly castle was often a terror to the surrounding country; that its dun geons were full of oppressed knights and ladies, waiting for some champion to appear to set them the, or to be ransorned with money; that hosts of idle retainers were ever at hand to enforce their lord's behests, regardless of law and justice; and that the rights of the unarmed multitude were of incitement. This contrariety of fact and theory.
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