GRIFFIN
Billingsgate.
Mr. Editor—Stow, in his Survey of London, with reference to Billingsgate, states, from Geoffrey of Monmouth, "that it was built by Belin, a king of the Britons, whose ashes were enclosed in a vessel of brass, and set upon a high pinnacle of 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 description of the said Gate?
WILLIAM WILLIAMS.
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 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.