Aldine Robin Hood Library No. 7

This issue of the *Aldine Robin Hood Library* features the opening chapter of a serialized medieval adventure novel titled "For King and Freedom." Set in twelfth-century Nottingham, the narrative follows Edwin Osbert, a Saxon armourer secretly forging weapons for his people, and his daughter Hilda. After Osbert's arrest by the Norman authorities under the cruel Basil de Vaux, Hilda and her father's apprentice Harold Maystone venture into town seeking help. They are accosted by Gildron, de Vaux's henchman, but are rescued by a mysterious stranger wielding a riding-whip. The stranger reveals himself—through a flash of green and gold—to be Robin Hood, the legendary Saxon outlaw, who instructs them to await his assistance. The chapter establishes themes of Saxon resistance against Norman oppression and sets up further plot developments involving the imprisoned armourer.