Dear Oriens: Welcome back! It is good to hear of your safe return. I envy you your new location. Apart from the interest of the the town itself, you are within easy range of a number of beautiful and fascinating medieval sites. Aside from Byland, Rievaulx and Fountains abbeys there are the priory at Finchale and the Carthusian remains at Mount Grace Priory; not to mention York Minster, Durham Cathedral and Lindisfarne. All this and such glorious countryside as well! I wish you much happiness in your new situation. Cheers, Martin Howley Martin Howley, Humanities Librarian, Tel: (709) 737-8514 QE II Library, Memorial Univ of Newfoundland FAX: (709) 737-2153 St John's, NFLD, Canada A1B 3Y1 E-mail:[log in to unmask] On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, [iso-8859-1] Bill East wrote: ...[SNIP]............. Since we last spoke,...............I > find myself uprooted and replanted as parish priest of Pickering. This > is a small town in North Yorkshire, England, U.K., Europe, of > considerable interest to medievalists..... %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%