The Turks were still resisting and fighting bravely, but this success increased the general desire in Europe to join the Crusade.

Another great French Duke was proposing to sell his dominions for a term to the rich Red King, when the Red King's reign came to a sudden and violent end.
You have not forgotten the New Forest which the Conqueror made, and which the miserable people whose homes he had laid waste, so hated.

The cruelty of the Forest Laws, and the torture and death they brought upon the peasantry, increased this hatred.

The poor persecuted country people believed that the New Forest was enchanted.

They said that in thunder- storms, and on dark nights, demons appeared, moving beneath the branches of the gloomy trees.