![]() The feuds, loyalties, and passions of centuries climax in a scandal that shatters the decorous society of Bath in the days of Jane Austen, whose family lived beside the Forest. Down the centuries, a Pride woman has a love child with a monk at the great local abbey of Beaulieu, the Forest folk prepare to meet the Spanish Armada, and tragedy strikes in the turbulent seventeenth century in a famous miscarriage of justice at evil Judge Jeffreys' Bloody Assizes. The tale opens with the mysterious killing of William the Conqueror's son Rufus, and the story of a deer. With their local customs little changed since medieval times, the Forest people - represented in the story by the Albions, the Tottons, the Prides, Puckles and Furzeys - have roots that go back to time immemorial. It has also been known for smuggling, the building of great sailing ships, and witchcraft. ![]() ![]() From the time of the Norman Conquest to the present day, the New Forest, which lies just south-east of Sarum on England's southern coast, has remained an almost mystical place, famous for its deer, ancient oaks, thatched cottages and forest ponies. ![]() THE FOREST is the natural companion to SARUM. ![]()
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