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students will be deeply indebted to you for giving 
insertion to articles on obsolete words and phrases, 
so many of which are to be found in the pages of 
the great poet. The article by R.R. is very in- 
teresting, but I apprehend that the passage from 
Taylor, first quoted by Weber, is sufficient to show 
that the phrase sneck up was equivalent to be 
hanged! See Halliwell, p. 766, on the phrase, that 
writer not connecting it with sneck, to latch. Com- 
pare, also, Wily Beguiled, —“ An if my mistress 
would be ruled by him, Sophos might go snick up.” 
And the Two Angry Women of Abingdon, 1599, — 
“Tf they be not, let them go snich up,” i.e. let them 
go and be hanged! ‘These passages will not be 
consistently explained on R. R.’s principle. Rh. 
Hanap (No. 29. p.477.).—I have a few notes 
by me relative to this drinking vessel, which may, 
perchance, be acceptable to some of your readers. 
It was similar to the standing cup and grace cup, 
as these vessels were subsequently called, being 
raised from the table by a foot and stem, for the 
convenience of passing it round the table for the | 
company to pledge each other out of; it was thus 
distinguished from the cup, which was smaller, and 
only used by one person. The hanap frequently 
occurs in wills and inventories of the thirteenth, 
fourteenth, and fifteenth centuries. 
Jn the will of Lady Clare, 13855 *, — 
* Je devise a ma jeefne fille Isabel Bardolf en eide de 
lui marier un hanap plat door.” 
And in that of the Earl of March, 1380T,— 
“Item. nous devisons a notre treschier friere Mons". 
Henri, un hanaper de tortelez ove un estelle en le 
founce.” 
A very elegant specimen is described in the 
will of the Duchess of Gloucester, 13904 i 
“ Un hanappe de Beril gravez de long taille, et assis 
en un peé d’or, ove un large bordur paramont, et un 
covercle tout d’or, ove un saphir sur le pomel du dit 
covercle.” 
In an inventory 19th Henry VI.§ we find— 
“ Une haute coupe d’argent enorrez appellez lanap 
de les pinacles pois de troie vii tb pris la tb xls, Summa 
xiiin li.” 
And temp. Edward II. 1324 ||,— 
*“ Un hanap a pee de Ja veille fazon quillere et ey- 
melle el founz du pois xxix 3, du pris x13.” 
In the same document several others are de- 
scribed having feet. I could give many other 
quotations, but will conclude with only one more, 
as in this last occurs the word hkyrymyry, of which 
I should like to know the derivation, if any of 
your readers can assist me : — 
“Ttem, un ianap d ore covere del ovrage d un hyry- 
‘ Ibid. 
* Royal Wills. Tt Ibid. 
§ Kalend. of Exch. ii. 253. 
|| Ibid. iii. 127. 
myry et iij seochons des armes d Engleterre et de 
Fraunce en le sumet.” * 
I have met with notices of cups “covered of 
kerimery work,” arid “ chacez et pounsonez en lez 
founcez faitz de kermery;” and the following, from 
the Vision of Piers Ploughman, would seem to in- 
dicate a sort of veil or net-work :— 
“ He was as pale as a pelet, 
In the palsy he semed 
And clothed in a haurymaury, 
I kouthe it nought diseryve.” 
W. C., Jun. 
MISCELLANIES. 
Bishop Burnet as an Historian.—Dr. Joseph 
Warton told my father that “ Old Lord Bathurst,” 
Pope’s friend, had cautioned him against relying 
implicitly on all Burnet’s statements ; observing 
that the good bishop was so given to gossiping ¢ and 
anecdote hunting, that the wags about court used 
often to tell him idle tales, for the mischievous 
pleasure of seeing him make notes of them. Lord 
Bathurst did not, I believe, charge Burnet with 
deliberate misrepresentation, but considered some 
of his presumed facts questionable, for the reason 
stated. Enisan Warrina. 
Dance Thumbkin.—In the Book of Nursery 
Rhymes, published by the Perey Socicty, there is 
a small error of great importance, involving no 
less than what the learned would call “a non 
sequitur,” and which, if my correct-and-almost- 
unequalled nurse, Betty Richins, was alive, she 
would have noticed much sooner than the nurse- 
ling who now addresses you. (She died about 
the year 1796.) In the valuable and still popular 
nursery classical song, “ Dance Thumbkin, dance,” 
it is not only an error to say “‘Thumbkin he can 
dance alone” (let. any one reader of the ‘“ Norrs 
AND Quertzs,” male or female, only try), but it is 
not the correct text. Betty Richims has “ borne 
me on her knee a hundred times” and sung it 
thus :— 
“ Thumbkin cannot dance alone, 
Sot dance ye merry men, every one.” 
I scarcely need add, that if this be true of 
Thumbkin, it is truer of Foreman, Longman, 
Middleman, and Littleman. Rk. S. S. 
King’s Coffee-house, Covent Garden.—As am 
addition to “ Mr. Rimpaurt’s” Notes on Cunning- 
ham’s Handbook, the following extract from 
Harwood’s Alumni Etonenses, p. ‘293. . In the ac- 
count of the boys elected from Eton to King’s 
College may be interesting : — 
ap. 1/13. 
“Thomas King born at West Ashton in Wiltshire ; 
went away scholar, in apprehension that his fellow- 
* Kalend. of Exch. ii. 117. 
t Or then, meaning “ for that reason,” 
