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 merchandising; 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 "Lofcope" 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." I 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 [Greek: Illuchnion ozein] 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 {372} valuable manuscripts and books, in the library at Helmingham Hall, Suffolk, the seat of the Tollemache family. M. _Golden Frog_.--Ingenious as is the suggestion of "R.R." (No. 18. p. 282.), that Sir John Poley stuck a golden frog in his ear from his affection for _tadpoles_, I think "R.R.'s" "Rowley Poley" may be dismissed with the "_gammon_ and spinach" of the amorous frog to which he alludes.