Dear Mr Cornwell,

I’ve been a big fan for many years. I’m currently enjoying the Saxon Chronicles. When I began them of course I was completely unaware of the content but was surprised to realise that the treaty of chippenham/wedmore is featured tangentially. I have been doing my family genealogy and used a function in ancestry.com that allows you to plot occurrences of your family name since 1841 on a map of England. I then pulled all of the wills from the national archives and plotted them on the same map. I have to admit I was somewhat astonished to see that after over 1100 years my family name (apparently an old Saxon name) still mirrors that line drawn between Alfred and Guthrum. If you are interested the results can be seen here http://www.cgpublishing.com/Godwin/county.jpg . Anyway, thank you for so many wonderful books. To the best of my knowledge I own all of them!

Yours sincerely

Robert Godwin