By the way, Keith, when you tell us that we're wrong about something, you unfailingly resort to "higher authorities" (rather selectively) in order to make your case. On this occasion you appear to be dissing Dr Lippincott, an eminent expert in this field. Well I've checked, and I find that she's not a historian who's both still alive and been active as a historian in the last thirty years. Worse, she has no history book on the shelves of Waterstones. So I suppose that makes you right...