t 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.

Conceiving that the origin of so singular a badge could hardly fail to
be commemorated by some tradition in the family, I have made inquiry
of one of Sir John Poley's descendants, and I regret to hear from him
that "they have no authentic tradition respecting it, but that they
have always believed that it had some connection with the service Sir
John rendered in the Low Countries, where he distinguished himself
much by his military achievements." To the Low Countries, then, the
land of frogs, we must turn for the solution of the enigma.

Gastras.

Cambridge, March 9.

_Sword of Charles I._--Mr. Planche inquires (No. 12. p. 183.), "When
did the real sword of Charles the First's time, which, but a few years
back, hung at the side of that monarch's equestrian figure at Charing
Cross, disappear?"--It disappeared about the time of the coronation
of Her present Majesty, when some scaffolding was erected about the
statue, which afforded great facilities for removing the rapier (for
such it was); and I always understood it found its way, by some means
or other, to the Museum, so called, of the notoriously frolicsome
Captain D----, where, in company with the wand of the Great Wizard of
the North, and other well-known articles, it was carefully labelled
and numbered, and a little account appended of the circumstances of
its acquisition