_Sneck up_ (No. 29, p. 467.)--All Shakspearean {493} students will be deeply indebted to you for giving insertion to articles on obsolete words and phrases, so many of which are to found in the pages of the great poet. The article by R.R. is very interesting, 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. Compare, also, _Wily Beguiled_,--"An if mistress would be ruled by him, Sophos might go _snick up_." And the _Two Angry Women of Abingdon_, 1599,--"If they be not, let them go _snick up_," i.e. let them go and be hanged! These passages will not be consistently explained on R.R.'s principle. R. _Hanap_ (No. 29. p. 477.).--I have a few notes by me relative to the 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. In the will of Lady Calre, 1355,-- "Je devise a ma joefne fille Isabel Bardolf en cide de lui marier un _hanap_ plat door." And in that of the Earl of March, 1389,-- "Item. nous devisons a notre treschier friere Mons'r. Henri, un _hanaper_ de tortelez ove un ostelle en le founce." A very elegant specimen is described in the will of the Duchess of Gloucester, 1390,-- "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 _l'anap_ de les pinacles pois de troie vii lb pris la lb xl. Summa xiii li." And temp. Edward II 1324,-- "Un hanap a pee de la veille fazon quillere et cymelle el founz du pois xxix, du pris xl." In the same document several others are described having feet. I could give many other quotations, but will conclude with only one more, as in the last occurs the word _kyrymyry_, of which I should like to know the derivation, if any of your readers can assist me:-- "Item, un hanap d ore covere del ovrage d un _kyrymyry_ et iij scochons des armes d Engleterre et de Franuce en le sumet." I have met with notices of cups "covered of _kerimery_ work," and "chacez et pounsonez en lez founcez faitz de _kermery_;" and the following, from the _Vision of Piers Ploughman_, would seem to indicate a sort of veil or net-work:--