Bob, No, I'm not familiar with the Chetham Society or its collection - I'll hunt around a bit. I've c hecked out the P.R.O. site from which Leigh no doubt got the info. Class KB8 is entitled "Court of KIng's Bench: Crown Side: Baga de Secretis" and contains the official state records of many of the most important state trials between 1477 & 1813. Most are either files of special commissionsof oyer et terminer or of the court of the lord high steward and peers. The files were literally kept in a bag, hence the title and most of the trials are for treason. The bag was kept in a special closet controlled by three keys, one held by the chief justice of King's Bench (lord chief justice), the others by the attorney general and the master of the Crown Office. A detailed calendar has been published and there are also 31 volumes of narrative of State Trials by T.B. and T.J. Howell (pub. 1816-23) which draw heavily on some of them. Sub-class 66 is indeed mainly concerned with the trials of the Preston rebels in Middlesex and Lancashire. It will, as I said, be a considerable time before I'll be at liberty to research them myself. Would you authorise me to employ a researcher or can it wait? Later:- I find I have a "window" on Tuesday, so will go to Kew & examine the boxes. Since I havn't been to Kew before there will be a considerable fussation to be gone through before I actually get to the documents, so may not complete the task in a day. I foresee possible difficulties, mainly concerned with legibility and spelling (heaven alone knows what an English court of the period will have made of our name!) but will report on the outcome. Later still:- Thought you might be interested in the following, which Sue spotted in the holidays section of the "Daily Telegraph":- "Guisachan Farm, Tomich, by Beauly, Inverness-shire. During summer holidays with my Inverness grandmother, we always begged for an expedition to Tomich. Lord Tweedmouth acquired Guisachan, his 20,000 acre Highland estate, in 1854. The now roofless house, the huge trees planted by dukes and maharajas, the frilly iron bridge spanning the Plodda Falls that cascade through a forested gorge, are still there. Gladstone, Millais, the future George V and Winston Churchill were all guests at Guisachan. Ordinary mortals stay in the farm courtyard, converted into three family friendly cottages with a small swimming pool. Guisachan is still a working farm; the dazzling walking, fishing and picnic country of Glen Affric make Tomich an excellent base for a laid-back holiday. Sleeps 4; £220-£490; Tomich holidays (01456 415332; www.tomicholidays.zetnet.co.uk)." Roger