"_Firlot; Fyrlot; Furlet_.--A corn measure in S., the fourth
part of a boll.

"Thay ordainit the boll to mat victual with, to be devidit
in foure partis, _videlicet_, foure _fyrlottis_ to contene
a boll; and that _fyrlot_ not to be maid efter the first
mesoure, na efter the mesoure now usit, bot in middill mesoure
betwixt the twa."--_Acts Jac._ l. 1526. c. 80. edit. 1566.

"--Ane furme, ane furlet,
Ane pott, ane pek."

Bannatyne _Poems_, p. 159.

Skinner derives it from A.-S. _feower_, quatuor; and _lot_, _hlot_,
portio (the fourth part); Teut. "_viertel_."

J.S.


_Loscop_ (No. 20. p. 319).--To be "Louecope-free" is one of the
immunities granted to the Cinque Ports in their charters of Liberties.

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