CHANCERY.

_Cancellæ_ are lattice-work, by which the chancels being formerly parted

from the body of the church, they took their names from thence. Hence,

too, the court of _chancery_ and the lord _chancellor_ borrowed their

names, that court being enclosed with open work of that kind. And, so,

to _cancel_ a writing is to _cross_ it out with the pen, which naturally

makes something like the figure of a lattice.