Mr. Editor,--Can any of your readers inform me if that branch of the
ancient family of _Pointz_, 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 Devonshire families.

The Pointzes remained at Greenham after 1600.

L.B.


Marescaucia.

Sir,--In the _Testa de Nevill_ appear the following entries:--

P. 237. a "terra Willi de Montellis (read Moncellis) in villa de
Cumpton pertinet ad _marescauciam_ domini Regis," &c.

P. 2269. a. "Will's de Munceus tenet Parvam Angram (Little
Ongar, in Essex) de Domino Rege de _Mareschaucie_ quæ fuit de
Baronia Gilberti de Tani."

P. 235. b. "Waleramus de Munceus tenet Cumpton per serjantiam
_Marescautiæ_."

If any of your readers can throw any light on the signification of the
word "Marescautia," occurring in these extracts, and the tenure referred
to, they will greatly oblige

D.S.