ea St aera sie elses ines esis elses ane 
NOTES AND QUERIES. 
94 
stone over the same Gate.” ... “That it was the 
largest water Gate on the river of Thames.” ... 
“That it is at this day a large water Gate,” &c. 
Can you, Mr. Editor, or any of your respected 
correspondents, refer me to any drawing or de- 
scription of the said Gate? Wi111am Wirriams. 
Rood Lane, Nov. 24. 1849. 
Family of Pointz of Greenham. 
Mr. Editor, — Can any of your readers inform 
me if that branch of the ancient family of Poinéz, 
which was seated at Greenham, in the parish of 
Ashbrittle, in Somersetshire, is extinct, and when 
the male issue failed? Some of them intermarried 
with the Chichesters, Pynes, and other old Devon- 
shire families. 
The Pointzes remained at Greenham after 1600. 
ot) ea, 
Marescaucia. 
Sir, — In the Testa de Nevill appear the follow- 
ing entries : — 
P. 237. a. “ Terra Willi de Montellis (read Mon- 
cellis) in villa de Cumpton pertinet ad marescauciam 
domini Regis,” &e. 
P. 269 a. “ Will’s de Munceus tenet Parvam An- 
gram (Little Ongar, in Essex) de Domino Rege de 
Mareschaucie que fuit de Baronia Gilberti de Tani.” 
P. 235. b. “ Waleramus de Munceus tenet Cumpton 
per serjantiam Murescautia.” 
If any of your readers can throw any light on 
the signification of the word “ Mar escautia,” oc- 
curring in these extracts, and the tenure referred 
to, they will greatly oblige D.S. 
NOTES ON BOOKS, CATALOGUES, SALES, ETC. 
The work of Walter Mapes, “De Nugis Curia- 
lium,” respecting which we inserted a Query from 
the Rev. L. B. Larking in our last number, is editing 
for the Camden Society by Mr. Wright, and will 
form one of the next publications issued to the 
members. 
Messrs. Sotheby and Co., of Wellington Street, 
Strand, will be occupied, during the week com- 
mencing on Monday, the 17th “Instant, with the 
sale of “the third portion of the stock of the 
late eminent bookseller, Mr. Thomas Rodd, com- 
prising rare and valuable works of the early 
English poets and dramatists; facetiz, romances, 
and novels, and other departments of elegant 
literature.” 
Mr. Rodd’s knowledge, great in all departments 
of bibliography, was particularly so in that of our 
early poetical and dramatical writers; and although 
the numerous commissions he held for such rarities 
in it as he secured, necessarily prevented their 
being left upon his shelves, the present collection 
exhibits a number of articles calculated to interest 
[No. 6 
our bibliographical friends, as the following speci- 
mens of a few Lots will show : — 
578 Dedekindus (Fred.) School of Slovenrie, or Cato 
turned Wrong Side Outward, in Verse, by 
R. F. Gent. 
very rare, original binding: sold at Perry’s sale 
for £11 11s. 1605 
591 De Soto (Barahona) Primera Parte de la An- 
gelica 
hie morocco, rare A Granada, 1586 
*,* No more than the first portion of this poem, which 
is in continuation of the Orlando of Ariosto, 
ever appeared. Cervantes notices it with great 
praise in his Don Quixote. 
747 Jests and Jeeres, Pleasant Taunts, and Merry 
Tales (wants all before B 2), VERY RARE. 
*,* One of these Jests mentions Shakspeare by name. 
1211 Marte of Ecyrv, a sacred Poeme describing the 
Miraculous Life and Death of the Glorious 
Convert of, in verse 
rare, russia, gilt edges no date (1650) 
1212 Marxkuam (Robert), tHe Description or THAT 
EVER TO BE FAMED Knicur Sir JoHN Burcu, 
Jine copy, with port, by Cecill 1628 
*,* A Porm or crear rarity; the Bindley copy, 
afterwards Mr. Heber’s, sold for £15. 
1345 Suaxesreare (W.), Comepirs, Histories, anp 
Tracevies, First Epirion, wanting the title 
and four leaves at the end, soiled . folio, 1623 
1451 Polimanteia, or the Means Lawfull ‘and Un- 
lawfull to judge of the Commonwealth, rare 
4to. 1595 
*,,* Notice is made of Shakespeare (R 2), Spenser, 
Sir D. Lyndsay, Harvey, Nash, &e. 
1606 Scornanv: — A veRY cURIOUS AND RARE Se- 
ries or Latin Poems (sy ALEXANDER Ju- 
Lius} on the Marriage or Deaths of some 
Scottish Nobles, as the Marchioness of Hunt- 
ley, Edin. 1607—-Countess of Argyle, ib. 
1607 — Earl Keith, 7b, 1609— Earl of Mon- 
trose, 7b. 1609— Prince Henry, 7b. 1612— 
Fredericke Prince Palatine, 7b. 1614— Earl 
of Lothian; with the author’s Sylvarum liber, 
1614 
*,”" Of these rare poetical pieces, four are unnoticed 
by Lowndes; five of them are published anony- 
mously; but their similarity to those with an 
author's name testifies the source from which 
the others emanated. 
The collection contains a good deal of early 
Dutch poetry, well deserving attention for the 
lights which we are sure may be thrown from it 
upon our own early national literature. 
Miller, of 43. Chandos Street, has issued his 
December Catalogue, comprising, among other 
articles, ‘‘ Books on Freemasonry, Poetry, | and the 
Drama, Histories of Ireland and Irish Antiquities,” 
which he states to be “ mostly i in excellent con- 
dition and good binding,” and, he might have 
added, “ at reasonable prices.’ 
