I meant to provide the following very minor list of corrections/clarifications of my final "shoe" string by last Friday (for my wrap-up postings which I actually never did complete last week, & which I meant to include 1674 CSP statements of Alderman Patience Ward abt Samuel Disbrowe's health, with also update on "Banker DESBOE" deepening with major/significant angles!). Yet, I missed that 'FINAL' posting date due to very enjoyable Halloween "lay-days" which I much prefer taking to posting to this List (who wouldn't!), & since I had said all I cared most about anyway, so have not much wanted to bother with any more for you! However, I have NOW discovered some very "NEW" & extremely important information just uncovered at the CT Historical Society yesterday (Tuesday, 11/6 from the just released two further volumes of the "Great Migration Project") which now requires my posting updates yet AGAIN to this List (will I ever be free of it??....plse recall I most certainly did NOT wish to continue here without "NEW" info to discuss first!!). I now have that very NEW information, which actually turns out to be extremely important to my own project too! This information is undoubtedly "conclusive" specifically regarding our recent debate, while also providing me with absolutely invaluable confirmation of one of my more important/cherished "relational analysis" angles: namely the now 'unquestionable' inter-relationship of the two Disbrowe clans of Samuel/Thomas Disbrowe (at Eltisley) with that of Nicholas Disbrowe (at Saffron Walden), with all its very obvious implication for the several 17th c. Connecticut/New York Disbrow clans. These various confirmations are based upon brand-new, scholarly published analysis (from the "Great Migration Project as pub. in the latest two further volumes in Feb 2001!) as taken from those very same Shire Hall "Disbrow" wills which we have been talking around while never yet having collected them. WHY has this scholar been able to get/decipher these long particular wills and before any of us!!?? I will post this very new info over the next day or two just so long as I may feel comfortable doing so, and am not too 'stressed-out' by the time it may take. So bare with it patiently, please! Some necessary CORRECTIONS to my last string on Halloween: 1. My posting two index listings of Disbrow wills were typed EXACTLY as printed in published index books, copied for Disbrow entries, & my post include no typo errors I'm aware of. These long published "index" books (many decades in print!) are at the Shire Hall in Cambridge, & at other appropriate research sites too (perhaps even at gen libraries in USA??).... So, question must be asked just WHY these many pertinent Disbrow wills have been, for so very long a time now, completely over-looked by various dedicated Disbrow researchers--- while, nevertheless, scholars with "the Great Migration Project" have so readily managed to secure/decipher/interpret these for publication Feb 2001 from the Shire Hall wills of our recent interest??! ....The index books do actually list the following just exactly as I did in my post last week, by leaving-off Disbrow surname from two listings only (if this happened to confuse you!), these are there listed just as I did accurately so from it: "James, Swavesey, yeo. W 1669, WR 10:106 [NOTE: this means "James Disbrow of Swavesey" village];" ...and also: "Sarah, Lt. Eversden, wid. W 1711" [this means Sarah Disbrow, widow, of Little Eversden], ...which indexing oversight is probably of virtually NO importance whatsoever for our use of these very important Disbrow wills. Further, index apprev. "Lt." (as in "Lt. Eversden") simply means "Little...." 2. From my posting re: "Two Early Disbrowe Wills," ...a comma should be where I put a period in first will abstract for "John the Elder," ...after pt # 5 "James Disbrowe" and before "Sean? in the manor of Borrough..." confusing the guy's bequest award. 3. In my recent post about 1612 Disbrowe "manor" house on Eltisley green (also called "the rectory"), next to church, I said a post-rail on a staircase has initials carved for James/Elizabeth Disbrow. The actual carving is a Latinized "ID 1612 ED" and appears on a closed-off doorway lintel, which itself is actually situated on the staircase wall of this 'ancient' house still standing. There is ALSO a very fine published photo of this same lintel carving accessible to you too, also a photo of the house itself & interior of Eltisley church from a widely distributed book available at most large libraries (NOT just university libraries): "County of Cambridge, Volume One West Cambridgeshire" by the Royal Commission On Historical Monuments, pub. 1968 (plate #37 for the lintel in question, ...interior of church & 2 very fine views of the house are on plates 12 & 77). I have long had this excellent information about Eltisley. BTW, that "rectory" house as being owned specifically by James "Elder" & Elizabeth "Marshall" is so indicated by several histories (as below noted too) as well as Mike Sawyer, Eltisley village historian, while the more detailed histories also give much evidence for Mitchells' land ownership at Eltisley and most provocatively MARSHALLS also owning much land at Eltisely (this last for me strengthens argument for that Disbrowe/Marshall partnership owning specifically the 1612 "rectory" house!). So, see these very detailed/excellently footnoted books for much/much more on these sites, w/ many diagrams/maps of the holdings described for our Disbrowes, & very detailed historical information of certainly the most reliable footnoted authority to their pub. date. I have had this information a couple years from my own UConn Libarary. 4. The "manor" house is NOT, in fact, ALSO what is also now known as the "rectory" house (above described w/ lintel). There is a separate house-site, called the "manor of Eltisely," which I have not yet visited there but intend to on my next trip & now via a rented car: ...this house is much reconstructed according to very detailed article abt Eltisley in the above noted very excellent book (this book couldn't be a more thorough guide to our Disbrow residences there with maps & detailed architectural diagrams of the houses involved, available to most of you at your major libraries, with more info also on Elsworth, Hatley (YES, there is such a place!), Harlton (a village noted by Gary Boyd Roberts' "Eng Origins of NE Fams." as yet one more nearby village with many Disbrow vital records too which I have yet to investigate myself!), Dry Drayton, Coton, Barrington (all important to my book research!), Madingley (see plate 14 esp. for a provocative photo of monument to one "Jane Cotton," wife of a "Sir John Cotton" of famous Cotton family lines, ...I have found evidence our Maj. General John Disbrowe was in DIRECT correspondence with famous New England Puritan divine: Rev. John Cotton, of MA Bay Colony for example!). Further, the excellent "Victoria History of English Counties" series on all English county history (also at most libraries) ALSO have absolutely invaluable information on our 17th c. Disbrowes, not just at Eltisley(!!), ....but especially there in VERY great detail as to how they acquired the manor in that village by 1600, etc., the land-ownership relation to Sir Francis Mannock (it appears, from all the somewhat complex land transactions indicated, that our Eltisley Disbrowes may have been particular beneficiaries of some sort of "sequestration" proceedings against the Mannocks earlier land interests at Eltisley, for example,... This is just as later Disbrowes of Interregnum period there were also involved in "sequestering" & holding royalist properties too, & just as I've discovered from Brit Library & PRO/CSP concerning Isaac/Joseph Disbrowe, ...& even "James" as a commissioner of the "Prize Office" for privateering during Civil War: all the Disbrowes being in on the "spoils" system then!...The name of "Richard Cromwell, alias Williams" also crops up in above Victoria history on Eltisley as early-on associated with Disbrowes, right in Eltisley neighborhood,... This was no doubt due, of course, to his own very famous earlier kinsman, "Thomas Cromwell," who was vital advisor to Henry VIII in dissolution of the monasteries, while delivering "spoils" to emergent new Protestant landed gentry, such as Oliver Cromwell's own family line at nearby Huntingdon, and perhaps also to Disbrowes themselves at Eltisley, as I believe no less!! These issues have immense importance for history of this area, and of my book project needless to say!). 6. There are "Rocket" surnames in 17th c. Over vital records, elsewhere also in region, as I've seen & which Chuck Rocket of this List may already know about, ....or perhaps not... 7. Other update matters/additions to record of last week far too numerous to mention, I certainly intend now to post the above noted very important "NEW" info over next couple days, & before that extended/semi-permanent "sign-off" of mine still SOOooo very necessary for my continued quiet research, & trip, etc...