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Sir Thomas Malory of Newbold Revel got into lots of legal trouble\\xa0 in 1443, 1451, 1452, and might or might not have done the things he got accused of, but he did indeed enter into a plot, along with Richard Neville, to overthrow King Edward IV, for which he ended up in prison. Too bad for him! But lucky for us, because that's when he wrote\\xa0The Hoole Book of Kyng Arthur and of His Noble Knyghtes of The Rounde Table,\\xa0which got published, after his death, by William Caxton, which is why we know it. Caxton, by the way, made a bunch of editing decisions, one of which was to shorten the title to\\xa0Le Morte d'Arthur . Your hosts explain lots of things -- Malory's legal troubles, where\\xa0Le Morte d'Arthur\\xa0 fits into Arthurian literature,\\xa0 his feud with the Duke of Buckingham -- and some holy oil given to Becket by the Virgin Mary herself, and Dickens' connection to Marshalsea prison. It's all connected.\\xa0 Really.