Previously, Elder John, Younger John and brother Robert Carpenter were found about 1400 in the wool cloth production business about fifty miles from London in Levenham, a city with easy river access to the coast. In association with the Carpenters was found the Cooke family who came to dominate London finance and politics in the 1400s. The following quotations from Herbert’s HISTORY OF THE LIVERY COMPANIES OF LONDON goes a long way in explaining Town Clerk John Carpenters choice of Cornhill for his residence and Saint Peter’s Church for his final resting place, as well as additional evidence for family connections to traditions of wool and cloth. The old English term for a manufacturer of wool cloth was “draper”. “The ancient members of the trade lived in and about Cornhill, and by the name of the “Fraternity of the Drapers of Cornhill,” had their gild in St. Mary Bethlem-hospital Church, Bishopsgate. They also then held their annual feast on the purification of that saint. The introduction of the Dutch and Flemish weavers occasioned the settlement afterwards of many of the drapers in Candlewick ward, and, ultimately, the building of the first Draper’s Hall on St. Swithin’s lane.” (P.401). In a note on the above: “The evidences of the draper’s former residence on the spots described, are found in abundance in the ancient notices of interments in St. Peters and St. Michael’s, Cornhill.” This seemingly woolly lore is of great interest given the Herefordshire Carpenters residence only five miles from the greatest wool producing area in England at the time, in Leominster, Herefordshire. The Herefordshire Carpenter’s source of livelihood has yet to revealed, but is now not difficult to imagine. At a later date I will discuss the first member of this family lineage in England, Ada Carpenterio or Adam Carpentier as he is variously referred to in Latin or Norman-French. Adam was a major landowner in Herefordshire, and no doubt a major wool producer. His activities in the early 1200s match exactly with the 17th century genealogist/historian Jean le Carpentier’s account of the Flemish Carpenters and the move to England from Flanders of members of the family. Bruce E. Carpenter