Excerpt from The Story of Edward: The Black Prince One would certainly have liked to know something of the childhood of one who was destined to fill so im portant a part in our own history, and in that of our neighbours across the channel, as does the Black Prince. But though we have gossip five centuries old, it is not gossip about babies. For grave historians to record that Joan of Oxford was his nurse; that Mistress Matilda Frampton had the honour of rockmg the royal cradle and that, in his third year, he was created Earl of Chester; is not telling us much it is the boy himself we want to hear about. But the nursery door is close shut upon its little princely inmate, and how ever precocious or stupid he may have been, to us it is all a blank. 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.