Hello Members, I was pleased to read mail from readers wishing to know how our AG. Labs ancesters lived ,I wrote a short piece for the Mag. last year & hope it will be published in next issue , excerps from all the books mentioned, as well as Peter Lasslett Camb. Uni. press "The World we have lost" I must say I was ignorant of how the Common People were treated in the past 400 yrs. I do not think things have changed very much. All the best Stan 11275