The Black Avons I - How They Fared in the Time of the Tudors

Book excerpt: 'The Black Avons I - How They Fared in the Time of the Tudors' is an adventure-drama novel written by Edgar Wallace. The story follows the narrator's life during the reign of the Tudors. He was born in the reign of the eighth Henry whom men called Bluff King Hal. The morning of his birth was the day when Anne Boleyn, who was mother of the great Elizabeth, was brought to the scaffold for her many wickednesses, and because of my father's admiration for the King (he approving of such terrible methods though he was a good husband and father), the narrator was named Henry.