Just a light-hearted anecdote I came across today. Don't know if anyone has a connection with the you Charles Knibbs mentioned below? Don Worcestershire Record Office: Quarter Sessions [1/1/480 - 1/1/530] Quarter Sessions Rolls FILE - Sessions 1789 Epiphany - ref. 1/1/515 - date: 1789 item: Epiphany 1789: Information & complaint of Daniel Taylor, Broadway, labourer: Richard Hatt assaulted & beat him at Hatt's cider mill where he had gone for a drink as he was very thirsty and they were pressing for his master George Savage: Hatt's daughter, Mary, had words with him & told him to go & threw an apple at him so hard that it broke - he threw must at her, at which Richard Hatt hit him on the head with a pole, knocking him down, & kept on hitting him. Deposition of Charles Knibbs (aged 12), Giles Maling, & Robert Maling, Broadway: confirm Taylor's story. - ref. 1/1/515/69 [n.d.]