Excerpt from The Five Nights of St. Albans, Vol. 1 of 3The origin of the following work, if it could be stated, would appear little less a romance, than the work itself. And if the statement were at all necessary to enable the critic, or the general reader, to enter upon the perusal of it with a better preparation for his task, it should not be withheld, but as it is not, the author thinks he may very fairly keep one mystery for himself, when he has so liberally provided a succession of them for his readers.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.