This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 edition. Excerpt: ... APPENDIX. Cople.--This should correctly be written Copple. The word is common in Cornwall and in the mining counties of England, and means a vessel used in refining metals. It was common three hundred years ago to name taverns after instruments, as, the "Mortar and Pestle," the "Bell," etc. But 1 know of no place in England so called. If there were any mines in Westmoreland, the title would be appropriate enough. Westmorland.--This county was created between the years 1648 and 1653, near a century before any of its Revolutionary men were born; so the Northern writer cannot say properly that it was so called from its having produced so many great men in Virginia. The true meaning of Moreland is "greater land," from the comparative "more," which is used in the sense of great by Gower, Chaucer, and even as late as Shakespeare, who says in "King John," Act II, 5th scene, "a more requital." But, if moreland is derived from the Celtic word "more," then moreland signifies great land, or high land; as, Maccullum More is the Great Maccullum. "Gilmore" means the henchman of the more or great man. The name of Westmoreland was given originally without doubt to a scene of high land or a great stretch of land of some kind, and never had allusion to the men who were born or died in any place so called. Hugh Blair Gkigsby. Cople Parish derived its name from Cople in Bedfordshire, England, the residence of the Spencer family, a distinguished member of which, Colonel Nicholas Spencer, resided in Westmore land at the era of its settlement. He became Secretary of Virginia, and acting Governor in 1683. George Wm. Beaee. There is a Virginia of the past resplendent with the heroic achievements of a great and glorious people; there is a Virginia of the present...