A major information source for early Carpenter history will certainly be A Cartulary of the Hospital of St. John the Baptist, the surviving records of a medieval charitable institution. The hospital was located in Oxford and was more than a hospital in modern terms. It was a rest home for the old and rich, an inn for travelers etc. We know the London Carpenters were related to the Oxford Carpenters through Sir John Carpenter and his siblings who had property in and about Oxford about 1300. Luckily the ancient records for the Hospital of St. John still survive. Many Carpenter land records survive from the mid 1200s, in what is a treasure-trove of Carpenter history. Oxford was one of the centers for cloth making in the 1200s. A fulling mill originally subsidized the Hospital of St. John itself. It is no surprise to find Carpenters there, in force. Later I will present as much of this data as I can. Bruce Carpenter