Thomson Gale, who brought you The Times OnLine, have got another Free Trial on offer - this time of their entire 18th Century Collections, and hopefully none will suffer the same access problems which, by the way, were fairly common. It wasn't just people from the KNIBB list who struggled. This collection is different but well worth looking at. There is a quick summary of it's contents at http://www.gale.com/EighteenthCentury/quick.htm Go to http://trials.galegroup.com/ecco/confirm.html and click on "Database Trial" to gain access to the search page. I haven't found anything about KNIBBS bit did find some interesting references to Deddington and Clifton in Oxfordshire from whence my lot came. I note that the first search gives references to documents in the collection and from there it's possible to search for the key words within the document. Don