Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Prince and the Page: A Story of the Last Crusade
For the latter part of the story, the old ballad of The Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green, gives the frame work. That ballad is believed to be Elizabethan in date, and the manners therein certainly are scarcely accordant with the real thirteenth century, and still less with our notions of the days of chivalry. Some liberties therefore have been taken with it, the chief of them being that Bessee is not permitted to go forth to seek her fortune in the inn at Romford, and the readers are entreated to believe that the alteration was made by the traditions which repeated Henry de Montfort's song.
It was the late Hugh Millar who alleged that the huge stone under which Edward sleeps in West minster Abbey agrees in structure with no rocks nearer than those whence the mighty stones of the Temple at Jerusalem were hewn, and there is no doubt that earth and stones were frequently brought by crusaders from the Holy Land with a view to the hallowing of their own tombs.
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