Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Robin Hood and His Adventures: Retold From the Ancient Ballads
It was a time of strife and disorder, and of wrong and oppression for a large part of the people. The event that is called in our histories the Norman Conquest, had taken place about one hundred years before this. William, Duke of Normandy, had then laid claim to the English throne, and with a large army which he brought from France had defeated Harold, the leader of the Saxons, as the native English at that time were called. Every Norman who had come over with Duke William had to be rewarded for his services, and to do this the lands and other property of ancient Saxon families were taken away from them and given to the new-comers. And as the Saxons could not 'resist this oppression, they were laughed at and despised by the haughty Normans, who treated them as contemptible inferiors.
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