John: Let me clarify my thoughts on Maurice Carpenter. He is a crucial link in your early Carpentier history from the continent to England. You have maintained that evidence exists establishing that Ypres Maurice had a son Pierre. Recently I found historical records of Ypres Carpenters and one was a Pierre. An immediate conclusion I came to was this was Pierre the son of Maurice. The other Pierre you identify lived many miles away from Ypres. The Pierre from the new data gives a much more probable son for Maurice. The evidence that indicates Ypres Pierre was a grown man in 1300, would then put Maurice’s birth a good many years earlier than you thought. Consequently I wrote to you asking for the documentary source of your Ypres Pierre and father Maurice, since I only have your word that a Maurice lived in Ypres and had a son Pierre. My own reading of my data on the Flemish Carpenters (I had hoped to present this at a later date), seemed clearly to show that the main family was situated in Douai near Arras, and that the Ypres Carpenters were a small family group, thus lessening the chances of more than one Pierre. This was actually the reason for my enthusiasm over the Ypres Carpenter data. It seems doubtful there was more than one Pierre. Sincerely, Bruce E. Carpenter