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NOTES AND QUERIES. 
[No. 29. 
1831; in which place the context of the scene 
appears to connect the idea of hanap with a cup 
containing treasure. 
Now I cannot find hanap in any dictionary to 
which I have access ; but I find hanaper in every 
one. Johnson, and others, give the word Hanaper 
as synonymous with treasury or exchequer. They 
also contract Hanaper into Hamper. For example, 
in Dyche’s English Dictionary, 17th ed. Lond. 
1794, we have, — 
** Hamper, or Hanaper, a wicker basket made with a 
cover to fasten it up with: also, an office in Chancery ; 
the clerk or warden of the Hanaper receives all monies 
due to the king for seals of charters, &c. ...... and 
takes into his custody all sealed charters, patents, &c., 
Ne - which he now puts into bags, but anciently, 
it is supposed, into Humpers, which gave the denomi- 
nation to the office.” 
And perhaps it may be remarked here, since we 
commonly say of a man in difficulties that he is 
“exchequered” or in “chancery,” that so we 
probably intend to express the same, when we say 
aman is hanapered, or hampered. 
Thus, there is no difficulty about the meaning 
of Hanaper ; and its connection with treasure is 
plain and clear enough: and, with respect to cups, 
though chiefly used for drinking, the presentation 
of them with sums of money in them has ever 
been, and indeed is, so very customary, that it is 
needless to oceupy space here with instances. 
But I cannot distinctly connect the hanap of the 
exhibition with hanaper: and I perhaps ought to 
look in another direction for its true signification 
and etymology. Rosert Synow. 
[Our correspondents who have written upon the 
subject of Hanap are referred to Halliwell’s Archaic 
Dictionary, where they will find “ Hanar,acup. Test. 
Vet. p. 99.;"" to Ducange, s. v. “ Hanarus, Hanarvrus, 
Hawnapruus, vas, patera, crater, (Vas ansatum et pede 
instructum, quo a poculo distinguitur), ex Saxonico 
Hnaep, Hnaeppa, Germ. Napf, ealix patera;” and to 
Guenebault, Dict. Iconographique des Monuments, who 
refers again for particulars of this species of drinking 
cup to the works of Soumerard and Willemin. ] 
Life of W. Godwin.—“ N.’s” inquiry (No. 26. 
p- 415.) for an account of the life of W. Godwin, 
and more particularly of his last hours, leads me 
to express a hope in your columns that the me- 
moirs of Godwin, which were announced for pub- 
lication shortly after his death, but which family 
disputes, as I have understood, prevented from 
appearing, may not much longer be denied to the 
public. I am not aware of any better account of 
Godwin’s life, to which “ N.” ean now be referred, 
than the sketch in the Penny Cyclopedia. CH. 
Charles II. and Lord R.’s Daughier.— Earl of 
Ranelagh.—Since I inquired in your columns 
(No. 25. p. 399.) who was the lady mentioned in a 
passage of Ilenry Sidney’s Diary, edited by Mr. 
Blencowe, as Lord R.’s daughter, and a new mis- 
tress of Charles II., who in March 1680 brought 
Monmouth to the King for reconciliation, I have, 
by Mr. Blencowe’s kindness, seen the original 
Diary, which is in the possession of the Earl of 
Chichester. The name of the nobleman is there 
abbreviated : the letters appear to be Rane., and 
it is probably Lord Ranelagh who is intended. I 
do not remember any other notice of this amour 
of Charles II., and should be glad to be referred to 
any other information on the subject. Charles II.’s 
mistresses are political characters; and in this 
notice of Lord R.’s daughter, we find her med- 
dling in state affairs. 
I do not know whether this lady, if indeed 
daughter of a Lord Ranelagh, would be the 
daughter or sister of the Lord Ranelagh living 
in 1680, who was the first Earl of Ranelagh and 
third Viscount, and who is described by Burnet as 
avery able and very dissolute man, and a great 
favourite of Charles II. (Hist. of his own Time, 
i. 462., ii. 99., ed. 1823) ; and who, having held 
the oflice of Vice-Treasurer in Ireland during 
three reigns, was turned out of it in disgrace in 
1703. He died in 1711, leaving no son, but three 
daughters, one of whom was unmarried; he was 
the last, as well as first, Earl of Ranelagh. The 
elder title of Viscount went to a cousin, and still 
exists. CH. 
MISCELLANIES. 
Dr. Sclater's Works. —Books written by W. 
Sclater, D.D., omitted in Wood’s Ath. Oxon. edit. 
Bliss. vol. iii. col. 228. :— 
“ A Threefold Preseruatiue against three dan- 
gerous diseases of these latter times : — 
“1. Non-proficiency in Grace. 
“2, Fals-hearted Hypocrisie. 
“ 3. Back-sliding in Religion. 
“ Prescribed in a Sermon at S. Paul’s Crosse in 
London, September 17, 1609. London. 1610.” 
4to. Ded. to “Master Iohn Colles, Esquire,” 
from which it seems that Sclater had been pre- 
sented to his living by the father of this gentleman. 
The Ser. is on Heb. vi. 4—6. 
“ A Sermon preached at the last generall As- 
sise holden for the County of Somerset at Taun- 
ton. London, 1616.” 8vo. On Ps. Ixxxii. 6, 7. 
Ded. to “ John Colles, Esq., High Sheriffe of Som- 
merset.” 
“« Three Sermons preached by William Sclater, 
Doctor of Diuinity, and Minister of the Word of 
God at Pitmister [sic] in Sommersetshire. Now 
published by his Sonne of King’s Colledge in Cam- 
bridge. London, 1629.” 4to. On 1 Pet. ii. 11., 
2 Kings, ix. 31., and Heb. ix. 27, 28. The last is 
a funeral Sermon for John Colles, Esq., preached 
in 1607. Joun J. DrepGe. 
Runes.—W orsiiae (Primeval Antiquities of Den- | 
mark, 1849) mentions that inscriptions are found | 
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