By the Rev. E. H. Goddard. 



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(1) Chas. N. May, 1868. Edw. Clap/iam, M.B., 1869. J. E. 



Hat/ward, 1855, 1856. 



(2) Wm. miller, 1870. H. J. Salisbury, 1872. W. G. 



Everett, M.D., 1858. R. Maysmor, 1862. 



(3) S. Reynolds, 1873. John Marsh, 1876. W. Tyrrell, 1864. 



Sam 1 - Wit ley, 1871. 



(4) W. E. Keeling, 1881. Rich*- Hill, 1882. 



(5) . J. F. Humby, 1887-88. 

 Those to the left of the centre : — 



(1) Wm. Brown, 1863-80. Geo. Gundry, 1866. H. Mackerett, 



1850. /. 8mallbon.es, 1853. 



(2) Geo. Simpson, 1860, 1875. ». Giddings, 1861, 1867. 



J^- /tar*, 1845, 1852, 1859. 



(3) Geo. Waylen, 1849, 1865.- James Biggs, 1854, 1877. H. 



Butcher, 1843, 1844, 1851, 1857. 



(4) Fred* Sloper, 1883. G. C. Giles, 1884. 



(5) (2. Iffcatf, 1885. Chas. Gillman, 1889. 



The Loving Cup, which, by the way, is carried before the mayor 

 with the maces, when he attends Church in state, is a tall silver-gilt 

 Hanap Cup 1 with spired cover. It bears the London hall-mark for 

 1606. The maker's mark is a monogram of the letters AB within 

 a shield. It measures, to the top of the cover, 15 Jin. It is of the 



1 " The Norman French word ' Hanap,' which has come to mean a basket for 

 package, in fact a 4 hamper,' is derived from the Saxon hncep, a cup or goblet, 

 and was applied in medieval days to standing cups with covers, but only as it 

 would seem to cups of some size and importance. As drinking vessels grew, with 

 the increasing luxury of the times, from wooden bowls into the tall ' standing cups 

 and covers ' which is the proper description of the cups called hanaps, the use of 

 the latter term became confined to such cups alone, and the place where such 

 hanaps were kept was termed the lianaperium. This was necessarily a place of 

 safe keeping, and therefore a sort of treasury. The hanaper accordingly was the 

 safe place in the Chancery where the fees due for the sealing of patents and 

 charters were deposited, and being received by the Clerk of the Hanaper (or 

 Clerk of the Chancery Treasury), the term hanaper office has continued to the 

 present time. The hanaperium may originally have been a strong chest, and so 

 the terms hanaper or hamper may have been applied and continued, at last 

 exclusively, to a chest-like basket, with a lid, used for various purposes." Cripps' 

 Old English Plate, p. 238. 



