Excerpt from Edric the Forester: An Historical Play in Five Acts Among the most powerful of the anglo-saxon nobles who survived the fatal Battle of Hastings, none was more conspicuous in the frequent but fruitless struggles they made for the recovery of their liberty, than Edric, surnamed the Wild or Forester. Grand-nephew to that Edric so infamous for his repeated treacheries in the reign of Edmond Ironside, and his father the irresolute Ethelred, he inherited those vast possessions which, extending on either bank of the. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.