Oops, my reply a moment ago to Sandra Smith's posting about the disappearing David Foskett was intended as a personal reply to Sandra, but I forgot that on this list a Reply goes to the whole list. Sorry, Sandra. Still, anyone who saw it will have realised that I have been carrying out a kind of One Place Study of Great Horwood in the 15th and 16th centuries (it's research for a PhD thesis, in fact). I haven't quite finished my analysis of all my data yet, and I hadn't intended to make a public offer to do searches in it until the job was complete (fearing inundation with requests at a time when I'm rather behind schedule and struggling to finish), but as I have inadvertently let the cat of the bag I may as well go public now. If anyone sends me details of an ancestor who lived in Great Horwood or the immediately neighbouring parishes (Winslow, Little Horwood, Whaddon and Nash, Thornborough, Addington and Adstock) before 1600, I'll look in my database for references to that ancestor, or other persons of the same surname, and send back a Word table containing them all. Depending on how many requests I get it may take a while for me to reply (and I'm going to be away for most of the next 3 weeks so it definitely won't be till after I get back), but I promise that I will reply to everyone in due course. Matt Tompkins Centre for English Local History University of Leicester