_Lofcop, Meaning of_ (Vol. i., p. 319.).--_Lofcop_, not _loscop_, is
clearly the true reading of the word about which I inquired. _Lovecope_
is the form in which it is written in the Lynn town-books, as well as in
the Cinque-port charters, for a reference to which I have to thank your
correspondent L. B. L. (Vol. i., p. 371.). I am now satisfied that it is
an altered form of the word _lahcop_, which occurs in the laws of
Ethelred, and is explained in Thorpe's _Ancient Laws and Institutes of
England_, vol. i., p. 294., note. The word _loveday_, which is found in
English Middle-Age writers, meaning "a day appointed for settling
differences by arbitration," is an instance of a similar change. This
must originally have been _lah-daeg_, though I am not aware that the word
is met with in any Anglo-Saxon documents. But in Old-Norse is found
_Logdagr_, altered in modern Danish into _Lavdag_ or _Lovdag._