Excerpt from Una and the Red Cross Knight: And Other Stories From Spenser's Faery Queene One of these persecuted Protestants, called Jan van der Noodt, came to London, and from him Spenser heard of the terrible sufferings of his fellow-countrymen, and understood still better why his parents rejoiced that the persecution of English Protestants was over now that Queen Elizabeth had come to the throne. 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.