present proprietor of Haigh.

CHETHAMENSIS.


_Marescautia_ (Vol. i., p. 94.).--Your correspondent requests
some information as to the meaning of the word "marescautia."
_Mareschaucie_, in old French, means a stable. Pasquier (_Recherches
de la France_, l. viii. ch. 2.) says,--

"Pausanias disoit que Mark apud Celtas signifioit un cheual
... je vous diray qu'en ancien langage allemant Mark se
prenoit pour un cheual."

In ch. 54. he refers to another etymolygy of "maréchal," from
"maire," or "maistre," and "cheval," "comme si on les eust voulu dire
maistre de la cheualerie." "Maréchal" still signifies "a farrier."
_Maréchaussée_ was the term applied down to the Revolution to the
jurisdiction of Nosseigneurs les Maréchaux de France, whose orders
were enforced by a company of horse that patrolled the _high_ways,
la _chaussée_, generally raised above the level of the surrounding
country. Froissart applies the term to the Marshalsea prison in
London. In D.S.'s first entry there may, perhaps, be some allusion
to another meaning of the word, namely, that of "_march_, limit,
boundary."

What the nature of the tenure per serjentiam marescautiæ may be I am
not prepared to say. May it not have had some reference to the support
of the royal stud?