Marescautia

Your correspondent "D. S." who asks (in No. 6.) for information upon the word "Marescautia," may consult Du Cange with advantage, s.v. "Marescallus;" the "u," which perhaps was your correspondent's difficulty, being often written for "l," upon phonotypic principles. It was anciently the practice to apportion the revenues of royal and great monastic establishments to some specific branch of the expenditure; and as the profits of certain manors, &c., are often described as belonging to the "Infirmaria," the "Camera Abbatis," &c., so, in the instance referred to by "D. S," the lands at Cumpton an…