laghfully begottyn _th_at _th_en my lyfelode remayn to Thurstan of Manchester my brother and hys heres male laghfully begottyn or bastard so _th_at it be in the name. And yf my name be spendit of Manchester it is my wyll _th_at John of Buth my Syster sone have my lyvelode & so furth male or generall whether God wyll. And all so it is my wyll _th_at Roger my eldyst sone gyf to Elyzabeth my Doghtter iiii marks to hyr maryage when he ys mared hym self.” The anxiety to keep his belongings within the enclosure of the family name was greater than his dislike of a bar sinister. The Lancashire and Cheshire wills published by the Chetham Society show that the illegitimate children were often provided for along with those born in wedlock, and in several cases bore the surname of their father. There are several entries relating to the Mancestres in the manorial rent roll of 1473, which has been translated and printed by Mr. Harland in his “Mamcestre.” Ellen Mancestre appears as the tenant of two burgages, late Katherine Johnson’s, for each of which she paid 12d. George Mancestre held a messuage in “Le Foris” at a rent of 3s. Mr. Harland conjectures this to be the clerkly rendering of “the Market or the Courts.” He was also concerned in a field near the “Galoz,” and paid 6d. as tenant of an _ostrina_, concerning which Mr. Harland observes:—“The word we have rendered singeing house is in the original _ostrina_, literally purple, from _ostrea_, an oyster. But it seems to be an error for _ustrina_ (from _uro_) a burning or conflagration (_Apuleius_) a place in which anything, especially a dead body, has been burned (Festus), or a melting house for metal (Pliny); but besides these meanings of classic times, the word had other mediæval significations, one of which is, a place where hogs are singed—ubi porci ustulautur. (See Ducange _in voce_.) This seems to be the most probable meaning of _ostrina_ in the text.” May not this be the “dryng-howses” named in the will? The name of the family of Manchester is not yet “spendit,” but is still borne both in this country and in the United States. A Visitor to Lancashire in 1807. There are some interesting references to Lancashire and the manufacturing district in a volume of “Summer Excursions,” consisting of letters written by Miss E. I. Spence, published in 1809. Literary fame is not always permanent, and it may be necessary to explain that the author of these volumes and of “The Nobility of the Heart” and “The Wedding Day” was a well-known woman of letters in her own generation.