Hi David I will experiment with scanning the pertinent sections of "History of A" this weekend. If successful (they are large and heavy) will send you sections on Willoughby and parts of the Historical narrative pertinent to the Willoughbys. I don't know what you are searching for but there is a lot to cover with them. Several Governor Generals of the "Caribee Islands" Their activities span crucial Wars and their administrative powers covered a broader area than most of the later Gov Generals. Politics was volatile and alliances were changing every day I remember the first time I read a narrative about them and after a brisk description of a particular W's service it would say "and Gov ----Willoughby died replaced by -----Willouughby and so on as if there was this cache of Willoughbys in the wings as replacements. When you start trying to nail things down it gets quite confusing because not everyone specifies which Willoughby is Which! Anyway if this helps let me know. Olivers is larger than the scanner so I am not sure how it will go with half page scans etc. Cod -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for private users. It has removed 16 spam emails to date. Paying users do not have this message in their emails. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len

Hi Cod, Thanks for the nice letter That's kind of you but I will get around to HoA on microfilm, Why is scanning such an infernally slow process? It is just a photo- copier isn't it. Isn't it? Both those families were, in their day, so prominent and well-known I just assumed that in the century since Oliver was writing a great deal more hard data would have accumulated about them . For example a few years ago Vince Summers was gathering up so much about Fitzgeralds (including the note that Henrietta Martin wife of Col J A Fitzgerald later became Mrs Irish). Vince has de- concatenated and lost his interest in Fitzgeralds but the Irish mention still makes me curious. Was it Oliver who published this excerpt from the will of Francis Willoughby 1605-1666: "to Jane, wife of William Irish, clerk, for her faithful care in the government of testator's family, 20,000lbs sugar and £20 per annum for life; also legacies or annouities to his servants . . ," but turned the fine Dorset family name of Irish into FRITH! As I search through the Calendar of State Papers it is easy enough to copy and paste things like the lists of members of Councils including those doddery and or delinquent. If I tidied this data up and presented it nicely 1. is it something others might want to know? 2. is there somewhere it can go up and remain permanently available on the Net? Last of all, if I copy info from Oliver (from microfilm) and put it up on the internet, could I run into copyright problems? thanks and regards David On Dec 14, 2007, at 2:06 AM, C.M. Codrington wrote: > Hi David > > I will experiment with scanning the pertinent sections of "History > of A" > this weekend. If successful (they are large and heavy) will send you > sections on Willoughby and parts of the Historical narrative > pertinent to > the Willoughbys. > > I don't know what you are searching for but there is a lot to cover > with > them. Several Governor Generals of the "Caribee Islands" Their > activities > span crucial Wars and their administrative powers covered a broader > area > than most of the later Gov Generals. Politics was volatile and > alliances > were changing every day > > I remember the first time I read a narrative about them and after a > brisk > description of a particular W's service it would say "and Gov ---- > Willoughby > died replaced by -----Willouughby and so on as if there was this > cache of > Willoughbys in the wings as replacements. When you start trying to > nail > things down it gets quite confusing because not everyone specifies > which > Willoughby is Which! > > Anyway if this helps let me know. Olivers is larger than the scanner > so I am > not sure how it will go with half page scans etc. > > Cod > > > > -- > I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for private users. > It has removed 16 spam emails to date. > Paying users do not have this message in their emails. > Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the message