The following material from Calendar of Liberate Rolls aids in large degree to writing early Carpenter history in the English 1200s. To John le Pouer, bailiff of woodstock. Contrabreve to let Agnes, late wife of John le Charpenter, lately deceased in the kings service at Woodstock, to have 40s. out of the issues of his bailiwick, being arrears of her said husbands wages on the day of his death for the time when he was engaged on the kings works at Woodstock.(Liberate Rolls, Dec. 18, 1266) [To the bailiff] of Wodestock. Contrabreve to repair and amend the kings mill of Wodestock where necessary. (Rolls, Oct.12, 1266) Woodstock or Wodestock is in Oxford. John and Agnes Charpenter were previous identified, members of a large Carpenter group in Oxford from the early 1200s, well traceable into the 1300s of London. As I had mentioned earlier, the place the Carpenters have in the lengthy literature of St. Johns Hospital in Oxford is prominent. They were, with the King, founding members of the hospital as a formal charity, and appear in its charter. The discovery of the above Liberate Rolls document, which gives the family name in its Norman French form, is fortuitous. More fortuitous is the cited involvement of John Carpenter in the Kings mills, at least some of which would very likely have been cloth manufacture related. Oxford was a major cloth-producing center. The royal cloth produced there was actually of a somewhat coarse quality, which the king used in distribution to the poor (see Carus-Wilson, p. 213). The Liberate Rolls material explains much that appears in the Hospital of St. John volumes. For example, the Oxford Carpenters originally lived in the Holywell district of town where some of the cloth mills were located. Geoffery Carpenter whose name appears on the first charter describes himself as Galfrido Carpentario de aqua, a tentative translation of which might be Geoffrey Carpenter who lives by the river. Geofferys location on the river suggests the very vicinity of the mill(s) at Holywell. BC