Bob, On behalf of my distinguished relative, please do! Poor old Coutts - I feel he had more than his share of bad luck, though I do have to admit that most of us do quite a bit to bring it on ourselves! If he could only have lived ten years more he would have inherited the Tweedmouth title, though I don't quite know what he could have done with it! No, I don't have "A bonny Fechter" & would be most interested in details of Brook House. Roger