Thank you to Terry for his great efforts in transcribing the TG details for us on the list. To be honest I've not taken a great deal of detailed time to study them but I've been a little intrigued by some of the side correspondence surrounding these latest extracts. Whilst I'm generally in agreement with Terry as far as the initial altruistic motives of those landlords such as Southwell and Oliver are concerned I also, somewhat cynically, support Walter's supposition that there was a great deal of wheeling and dealing going on and the IPs were probably, to some degree, a source of wealth for their landlords. The latest accounts Terry posted, 1714-15, show for instance the cost of purchase of hemp and flax seed. Am I right in supposing that their inclusion in the Accounts means that Southwell was claiming the cost of this back from the Crown? These accounts are for a period some 5/6 years after our ancestors arrived and yet they were still being supplied with seed by their landlord? I don't suppose that he was giving it away!! We know that Southwell built a mill for bleaching and finishing the finished woven product of his tenants. Am I right in assuming that the landlord supplied the seed, the tenant grew and wove the product. It then passed back to the landlord for bleaching and onward sale. I wonder what our ancestors' share of this little enterprise was and, additionally, how much was being claimed back from the crown as well as being paid for by the tenants? The phrases "sweatshops" and "company stores" spring to mind!! Chris Le Gear _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp