Hi Everyone, This is forwarded to you, compliments of Jim Allen. The info and URL for "Word on the Street" was posted by Nancy to the MS-SCOTS list: "How ordinary Scots in bygone days found out what was happening; National Library of Scotland - Broadsides: Broadsides are single sheets of paper, printed on one side, to be read unfolded. They carried public information such as proclamations as well as ballads and news of the day. Cheaply available, they were sold on the streets by pedlars and chapmen. Broadsides offer a valuable insight into many aspects of the society they were published in, and the National Library of Scotland holds over 250,000 of them." http://www.nls.uk/broadsides/index.html A search of the site produced some Boyd results...hope you find the site interesting :-) Thanks Jim! Kind Regards, Karen from Ohio, USA