TRIBE—ULVEÆ. Ulva latissima Oyster Green or Laver ” Lactuca Lettuce Laver Entermarpha intestinalis Intestinal Entermorpha ” compressa Branched ” The subjoined table contains the names of some of the crustaceous animals and molluscs commonly met with in the neighbourhood:— Arctopsis tetraodon Four-horned Spider-crab Hyas araneus Great Spider-crab, or Sea-toad Portunus puber Velvet Fiddler-crab Corystes dentata Toothed Crab Gonoplax angulata Angular Crab Pinnotheres pisum Pea-crab Porcellana platycheles Broad-claw porcelain Crab Cancer pagurus Edible crab Cancer mænas Common Crab Pagurus Bernhardus Hermit-crab Pilumnus hirtellus Hairy-crab Palæmon serratus Common Prawn Crangon vulgaris Common Shrimp Corophium longicorne Long-horned Corophium Orchestia littorea Shore-hopper Talitrus saltator Sand-hopper Sulcator arenarius Sand-screw Mytilus edulis Edible Mussel Cardium edule Cockle Buccinum undatum Whelk Litorina litorea Periwinkle Calyptra vulgaris Common Limpet [Illustration] CHAPTER VI. THE PEDIGREES OF ANCIENT FAMILIES. ALLEN OF ROSSALL HALL. The Allens who resided at Rossall Hall for a period of more than half a century, and by intermarriage became connected with the Westbys of Mowbreck, the Heskeths of Mains, and the Gillows of Bryning, sprang from the county of Stafford. At the time of the Protestant Reformation, George Allen, of Brookhouse, in the division just mentioned, held a long lease of the Grange and Hall of Rossall from a kinsman of his family, one of the abbots of Deulacres, a Staffordshire monastery, to which the estate had been granted by King John. George Allen at his death left one son, John, who resided at the Hall, and subsequently married Jane, the sister of Thomas Lister, of Arnold Biggin, in Yorkshire. The offspring of this marriage were Richard, William, Gabriel, George, who espoused Elizabeth, the daughter of William Westby, of Mowbreck; Mary, afterwards the wife of Thomas Worthington, of Blainscow; Elizabeth, subsequently the wife of William Hesketh, of Mains Hall; and Anne, who married George Gillow, of Bryning. Richard Allen, of Rossall Hall, the eldest son, left at his demise a widow with three daughters, named respectively, Helen, Catherine, and Mary, who were deprived of their possessions and rights in the Grange in the year 1583 by Edmund Fleetwood, whose father had purchased the reversion of the lease from Henry VIII., at the time when the larger monastic institutions were dissolved in England. The widow and her daughters fled to Rheims to escape further persecution, where they were hospitably received by their near relative, Cardinal William