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 and Little Ongar were apportioned to the support of the royal stable and farriery.

J.B.

Macaulay’s “Young Levite.—­The following is an additional illustration of Mr. Macaulay’s sketch, from Bishop Hall’s Byting Satyres, 1599:—­

  “A gentle squire would gladly entertaine
  Into his house some Trencher-chapelaine;
  Some willing man, that might instruct his sons,
  And that would stand to good conditions. 
  First, that he lie upon the truckle-bed,
  While his young master lieth o’er his head;
  Second, that he do, upon no default,
  Never to sit above the salt;
  Third, that he never change his trencher twise;
  Fourth, that he use all common courtesies,
  Sit bare at meales, and one half rise and wait;
  Last, that he never his young master beat,
  But he must aske his mother to define
  How manie jerks she would his breech should line;
  All these observ’d, he could contented be,
  To give five markes, and winter liverie.”

R.

Travelling in England.—­I forward you a note on this subject, extracted, some years ago, from a very quaintly-written History of England, without title-page, but apparently written in the early part of the reign of George the First.  It is among the remarkable events of the reign of James the First:—­

“A.D. 1621, July the 17th, Bernart Calvert of Andover, rode from St. George’s Church in Southwark to Dover, from thence passed by Barge to Callais in France, and from thence returned back to Saint George’s Church the same day.  This his journey he performed betwixt the hours of three in the morning and eight in the afternoon.”

This appears to me such a surprising feat, that I think some of your correspondents may be interested in it; and also may be able to append farther information.

DAVID STEVENS.

Warning to Watchmen.—­The following Warning, addressed to the Watchmen of London on the occasion of a great fire, which destroyed nearly 100 houses in the neighbourhood of Exchange Alley, Birchin Lane, the back of George Yard, &c., among which were Garraway’s, The Jerusalem Coffee House, George and Vulture, Tom’s, &c. &c., is extracted from the London Magazine for 1748, and is very characteristic of the then state of the police of the metropolis:—­