The Ancestor. (A. Constable and Co. 6s. net.)—We have received
the fourth volume of this "Quarterly Review of County and Family History." Every article is written by one who can claim the qualification of an export. It will suffice, therefore, briefly to indicate some of the contents of the present number. Mr. Horace Round writes on the " Lord Great Chamberlain Case"; the " Van- deputs" are the subject of a paper in a "Huguenot Families in England" series. The Leightons figure among " Our Oldest Families." "Long before the Conquest, and of noble extraction," dwindles down, it is true ; but the Leightons " easily find a plate amongst those few English families which can point to a twelfth- century forefather." Some of the details in " North Country Wills" are curious. They are mostly post-Reformation, and so lack one great item of interest, the bequests for spiritual pur- poses. Sir William Ingelby's will (1578) has an inventory,. Funeral and testamentary expenses came to £136 7s. 8(1.; the dinner costing £13 6s. 8d. His plate was valued at £42 ,6s: *8414 and his wearing apparel at £14 les. He had £20 in his purse. The whole of the inventory comes to £700 18s. Thomas Light- foot (1559) bequeathed a farthing loaf to every person going to his funeral ; John Thorpe (1571) directs "that all honest folkes that goes to the churche with me have their dinners."
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