This story is reproduced in numerous Chap books in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The story as it relates to St George's adventures, is here condensed and reproduced in part.

The Seven Champions, with their ladies, now repaired to their open countries, where they were received in the most triumphant manner, as miracles of valour.

The ensuing spring, they raised an army of fifty thousand men, to make war against the Pagans, whom they attacked so furiously, that the rivers ran with blood. St George then marched his army to the frontiers of Egypt, but the king and his nobles offering submission, he forgave them, on condition of their becoming Christians and that he and Sabra should succeed to the throne.

At this juncture, news arrived, that Sabra, (whom he had left in England) was condemned to be burnt, unless some knight should appear to espouse her cause, against her accuser, the Baron of Chester; when St George, transferring his command to St David, set out for England with the utmost expedition and arrived just at the moment orders were given to kindle the funeral pile, in consequence of no knight having answered to the herald's summons. St George, his banner of defiance floating in the air, rode forward to the foot of the throne, where the king sat in person and demanded the liberty of the princess, or to combat her defence. The charge was sounded, and the combatants met, their spears, on the first onset, being shivered and both horses and men dashed to the ground. The Baron, leaping up, with his falchion, furiously cleft the champion's shield asunder; when he, collecting his whole force, smote off the baron's arm, and he expired. The princess being released, they travelled towards the mountains, they entered a country where the trees were all withered and the inhabitants deserted. At last they came to a fine pavilion, where sat a beautiful virgin, with several besides, in deep affliction, who told him she was Queen of the Amazons, who, for refusing to marry a wicked necromancer, had had her territory destroyed, by raising an enchanted castle out of the earth, filled with pestilential spirits. The brave St George, recommending Sabra to a care, road to the castle and entering, was opposed by a monstrous giant; he soon felled the monster and was about to dispatch him, when he revealed the secret of the enchantment. He said, that in the cave below the foundation of the castle, there was a magical fire springing out of the earth, which caused the desolation of the country, which could only be quenched by a fountain of black water, guarded by evil spirits.

St George descended to the cave, destroyed the fiends and with water, extinguished the fire; on which the castle vanished, amidst a cloud of smoke. When he returned to the pavilion, he and Sabra spent several days with the Queen, after which they repaired to Egypt, and were duly crowned King and Queen of the Country.

The Seven Champions of Christendom

............captured at birth.........the escape

The Seven Champions of Christendom

............dragons killed.........maidens rescued