Excerpt from The Juvenile Instructor, Vol. 32: February 15, 1897 The Saxons are said to have spent the night in feasting and revelry, while their opponents were engaged in prayer, led by the bishops and monks, who used to fight in those days, and preparation for the morrow's struggle. 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.