I know not the signification of the solitary E. Snelling (_Treatise on Abbey Pieces, &c._) has engraved and described many of these counters, and to him I must refer H. C. K. Hans means John, and has no reference to the Hanseatic League. W. H. S. Edinburgh. _Meaning of Lode_ (Vol. v., p. 345.).--_Lode_ and _load_, in Cornwall, is the name given to the vein that _leads_ in the mine; or, the _leading_ vein. The word _lode_ is also in common use in Cambridgeshire, having similar reference to the watercourses by which the fens are drained. _Lodestar._ The pole-star; the _leading_ star, by which mariners are guided. The magnet is _load-stone_, that is, leading, or guiding stone. (Nares' _Glossary_.) "O, happy fair! Your eyes are _lode_-stars----." _Midsummer Night's Dream._ WM. YARRELL. Rider Street. _Lode_ (Vol. v., p. 345.).--Lode seems to have been anciently used as signifying merely a ditch to carry off water. (See "Inquisition, 21 Henry VIII." in Wells's _Hist. of Bedford Level_, vol. ii. pp. 8-17.) Lode means to carry. (_Promptorium Parvulorum_, ed. Way, p. 310.) The term _lode_ is now used to signify a navigable ditch. In Cambridgeshire we have Soham Lode, Burwell Lode, Reach Lode, Swaffham Lode, and Bottisham Lode. C. H. COOPER. Cambridge. _Mother Damnable_ (Vol. v., p. 151.).--Your correspondent S. WISWOULD will find some slight information respecting this worthy in Daniel's _Merrie England in the Olden Time_ (Bentley, 1842), vol. i. p. 217. It appears that Mr. Bindley had an unique engraving of her, and that a well-known alehouse at Holloway (of which a token is extant, with the date 1667) was sacred to her memory as Mother Redcap, as well as that in the Hampstead Road. JOHN EVANS. _Monuments of De la Beche Family_ (Vol. v., p. 341.).--The monuments referred to by ÆGROTUS are in the church of Aldworth: the effigies are certainly remarkable, especially one for its size and attitude. Another noticeable circumstance is that most of the figures are of older date than the tombs on which they lie, or than the church which contains them. The building consists of a nave and south aisle; and, at the time of its original construction, three canopied recessed tombs were introduced in each of the side walls to receive the effigies which must have existed in the older church. The style of the architecture belongs to the age of Edward III. There are nine figures altogether, some of them greatly mutilated. They are not entirely unknown to archæologists.