_Wyle Cop_ (Vol. iv., pp. 116. 243. 509.; Vol. v., p. 44.; Vol. vi., p. 65.).--The summit of a steep hill in the town of Shrewsbury bears the name of _The Wyle Cop_. I think that these are two Welsh words, _Gwyl Cop_, meaning watch mound, slightly altered. _Gop_, near Newmarket in Flintshire, has a longer Welsh name, which is written by English people _Coperleni_. This, when correctly written, means, the mound of the light or fire-beacon. _Mole Cop_, the name of a lofty hill near Congleton, appears to be a slight corruption of the Welsh words _Moel y Cop_, the mountain of the mound. There is another lofty hill in Staffordshire called _Stiles Cop_. It seems probable that on both of these hills mounds may have been made in ancient times for the erection of fire-beacons. It would appear that Dr. Plot did not understand the Welsh language, as he has stated that he thought, in these instances, the word _Cop_ meant a mountain. N. W. S. (2.) _Chaucer_ (Vol. vii., p. 356).--No foreign original has ever been found for Chaucer's "House of Fame." Warton fancied that it had been translated or paraphrased from the Provençal, but could adduce no proof that it had. Old Geoffrey may have found the groundwork somewhere, in the course of his multifarious reading; but the main portion of the structure is evidently the work of his own hands, as the number of personal details and circumstances would tend to indicate. The forty lines comprising the "Lai of Marie," which Chaucer has worked up into the "Nonnes Preestes Tale" of some seven hundred lines, are printed in Tyrwhitt's Introductory Discourse to the _Canterbury Tales_, and will be sufficient to show what use he made of the raw material at his disposal. We may fairly presume that Emerson never took the trouble to investigate the matter, but contented himself with snatching up his materials from the nearest quarry, and then tumbling them out to the public. J. M. B. Tunbridge Wells. _Campvere, Privileges of_ (Vol. vii., p. 262.).--J. D. S. asks, "What were these privileges, and whence was the term Campvere derived?"