Saturday June 9 - Delayed flight (took off 8:30pm - EWR, who is surprised?) but a great day.  Diesel rental car drives well with quirks:  Peugot - we are French in Briton - perhaps we are pushing our luck?  Nevertheless, we are learning this car's language - leave it to Bets for reading the manual - ha!!  Great visit in Lancaster with a lovely pub lunch.  Tour of the Lancaster Castle included being shut in a dark basement 16c prison cell similar to the one our Huddlestun ancestor William died in (it must have been completely horrible (horrid) and way beyond tragic) during the scourge of Cromwell.  We are surrounded by Catholics who lost everything for what they believed while fighting as hard as they could to maintain the life and beliefs they held near and dear.  Civil wars are always the same.  Still, Bets got a feel for the English county court system :  it's still a working civil and criminal court.  We'd hoped to see the Blackledge coat of arms on the civil court wall (going back to 12c) but most likely it was never allowed on the wall since they were known to be ardent Catholic once they became property owners at peerage level (17c).