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seen the hands and breast of a small female figure, 
very nearly a century earlier in date. I can also 
remember an inscription in Cuxton Church, Kent, 
which was loose, and had another inscription on the 
back in the same manner. 
“Tam very much impressed with the idea that the 
destroyed brasses never had been used at all; but had 
been engraved, and then, from circumstances that of 
course we cannot hope to fathom, thrown on one side 
till the metal might be used for some other purpose. | 
This, I think, is a more probable, as well as a more 
charitable explanation than the one usually given of the 
so-called palimpsest brasses.”] 
Chapels (No. 20. p. 333.).— As to the origin of 
the name, will you allow me to refer Mr. Gatty to 
Ducange’s Glossary, where he will find much 
that is to his purpose. 
As to its being “a legal description,” I will not 
undertake to give an opinion without a fee; but I | 
will mention a fact which may assist him in form- 
ing one. I believe that fifty years ago the word 
Chapel was very seldom used among those who 
formed what was termed the “ Dissenting Interest ;” 
that is, the three “denominations” of Indepen- 
dents, Baptists, and Presbyterians. But I well 
recollect hearing, from good authority, nearly, or 
quite, forty years ago, that an eminent barrister 
(whom I might now describe as a late learned judge), 
who was much looked up to by the dissenters as 
one of their body, had particularly advised that in 
all trust-deeds relating to places of dissenting 
worship, they should be called “Chapels.” I do 
not know that he assigned any reason, but I know 
that the opinion was given, or communicated, to 
those who had influence; and, from my own ob- 
servation, I believe that from about that time we 
must date the adoption of the term, which has 
now been long in general use. 
I do not imagine that there was any idea of 
either assistance or opposition to the Church of 
England, in the mind of him who recommended, 
or those who adopted, the alteration, or that 
either of them expected or sought any thing by 
this measure but to obtain a greater security for 
property, or, rather, to avoid some real or ima- 
gined insecurity, found or supposed to attach to 
the form of description previously in use. 
A Barrister. 
Forlot, Forthlot (No. 20. p. 320.).— A measure 
of grain used throughout Scotland at present — 
query fourthlot. See Jamieson’s Etymological 
ictionary of the Scottish Language. 
“ Firlot; Fyrlot; Furlet. —A corn measure in S., 
the fourth part of a boll. 
“ Thay ordainit the boll to mat victual with, to be 
devidit in foure partis, videlicet, foure fyrlottis to con- 
tenea boll; and that fyrlot not to be maid efter the first 
mesoure, na efter the mesoure now usit, bot in middill 
mesoure betwixt the twa.”— Acts Jac. 1. 1526, ¢. 80. 
edit. 1566. 
fe Ane furme, ane furlet, 
Ane pott, ane pek.” 
Bannatyne Poems, p. 159. 
Skinner derives it from A.-S. feower, quatuor ; 
and Jot, hlot, portio (the fourth part) ; Teut. “vier- 
tel.” J.S. 
Loscop (No. 20. p. 319).— To be ‘ Louecope- 
free” is one of the immunities granted to the 
Cinque Ports in their charters of Liberties. 
Jeakes explains the term thus : — 
“The Saxon word Cope (in Low Dutch still Kope 
or Koope), for trade or merchandising, makes this as 
much as to trade freely for love. So that by no kind 
of monopoly patent, or company or society of traders 
or merchants, the portsmen be hindered from merchan- 
dising; but freely and for love, be permitted to trade 
and traffick, even by such company of merchants, 
whenever it shall happen their concerns lie together.” 
In my MSS., and in the print of Jeakes, it is 
“‘Louecope,” with which ‘“Lofeope” may be 
readily identified ; and f may easily be misread 
for s, especially if the roll be obscured. 
If Jeakes’s etymology of the word be correct, 
the inference would rather be that “ Lovecope” 
was a tax for the goodwill of the port at which a 
merchant vessel might arrive; a “port duty” in 
fact, independent of “lastage” &c., chargeable 
upon every trader that entered the port, whatever 
her cargo might be. And the immunities granted 
to the portsmen were that they should be “ port 
duty free.” 
T do not venture to offer this as any thing more 
than a mere guess. Among your contributors 
there are many more learned than myself in this 
branch of antiquarian lore, who will probably be 
able to give a more correct interpretation, and we 
shall feel obliged for any assistance that they can 
give us in elucidating the question, 
“ Lovecope” might perhaps be the designation 
of the association of merchants itself, to which 
Jeakes alludes; and the liberty of forming such 
association, with powers of imposing port duties, 
may have been dependent on special grant to any 
port by royal charter, such as that which forms 
the subject of your correspondent’s communication. 
After all, perhaps, “ Lovecope” was the word 
for an association of merchants; and ‘‘ Louecope- 
free” is to be freed from privileged taxation by 
this body. L. B.L. 
Smelling of the Lamp (No. 21. p. 335.).—“ X.” 
will find the expression éAdvxviev few attributed 
to Pytheas by Plutarch (Vit. Demosth., c. 8.). 
J. E. B. Mayor. 
Anglo-Saxon MS. of Orosius (No. 20. p. 313.). 
—It may gratify Mr. Singer to be informed that 
the Lauderdale MS., formerly in the library at 
Ham House, is now preserved, with several other 
