Excerpt from Tales of the Round Table: Based on the Tales in the Book of Romance Long, long ago, after Uther Pendragon died, there was no King in Britain, and every Knight hoped to seize the crown for himself. The country was likely to fare ill when laws were broken on every side, when the corn which was to give the poor bread was trodden underfoot, and there was no one to bring the evildoer to justice. When things were at their worst forth came Merlin the magician, and fast rode he to the place where the Archbishop of Canterbury d_welt. They took counsel together, and agreed that all the lords and gentlemen of Britain should ride to London on Christmas Day, and meet in the Great Church. So this was done. 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.