COPE is also the name of an ancient custom or tribute due to the king or lord of the soil, out of the lead mines in some part of Derbyshire; of which Manlove saith thus:

Egress and regress to the king's highway, The miners have; and lot and cope they pay; The thirteenth dish of ore within their mine, To the lord for lot, they pay at measuring time; Sixpence a load for cope the lord demands, And that is paid to the burgomaster's hands.

This word by Doomsday-book, as Mr Hagar hath interpreted it, signifies a hill: and cope is taken for the supreme cover, as the cope of heaven.

COPEL. See CUPEL.