Leonard Mascall

Leonard Mascall (died 1589) was an English author and translator.

His family was from Plumstead, Kent, and he became clerk of the kitchen in the household of Matthew Parker, archbishop of Canterbury.

Mascall died at Farnham Royal, Buckinghamshire, and was buried there on 10 May 1589. The claims that he introduced carp and the pippin apple to England have been doubted: carp were introduced earlier, and the Maschall who introduced the pippin at Plumstead, as Thomas Fuller says, is more plausibly an ancestor.

Works written by, or generally attributed to, Mascall, are:

He also drew up the Registrum parochiæ de Farnham Royal comit. Buckingh., completed 25 June 1573, in which he inserted Thomas Cromwell's injunctions concerning parish registers, and prefixed some English verses on the subject.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Cooper, Thompson (1893). "". In Lee, Sidney. Dictionary of National Biography. 36. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 

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