In a message dated 24/07/04 23:52:57 GMT Daylight Time, norman.lee1@virgin.net writes: I've only just been able to pick this message up. Can I make a suggestion and ask a question at the same time? Isn't a cross bolt just another word for the arrow sent in a cross bow? A bolt is another word for an arrow, isn't it, or sometimes a dart? Audrey At the height of their power in the Medieval period, crossbow bolts were always referred to as quarrels. See Randall Storey, ‘The Tower of London and the garderobae armorum’, Royal Armouries Yearbook, 3, 1998. Online at _http://www.deremilitari.org/RESOURCES/ARTICLES/storey.htm_ (http://www.deremilitari.org/RESOURCES/ARTICLES/storey.htm) Pete Brown