_Sneck up_ (Vol. i., p. 467.; Vol. ii., p. 14.).--_Sneck up_ is a stage direction for _hiccup_, which Sir Toby was likely to observe after his "pickle herring." Davis is quite right in following Theobald. A word for Theobald. Every commentator is indebted to him, and almost every one has abused him, from Warburton and Pope to Coleridge, and without Theobald's notes and most sagacious amendments, ordinary readers would be puzzled to _read_ Shakspeare. The booksellers, I am glad to see, had sense enough to see Theobald's merit, and gave him a far larger sum for his edition than has been paid to most of his successors. S. H. (2) _Meaning of Senage_ (Vol. iv., p. 6.).--Have the kindness to inform W. H., that in my extracts from the Parish Account Book of St. Peter's Mancroft in this city, under the years 1582 and 1588, are entered as follows:-- "1582. Pd to the Bisshopp for Senage Money ... xxjd. 1588. Pd for Senage and Proxage to the Bisshopp, ixd." In Cowel's _Law Dictionary_, by Thomas Manley, folio, 1701, under the term "Senege," he says: "There goes out yearly in Proxage and Senage 33_s._ 6_d._ Perhaps senege may be money paid for Synodals, as Proxyes or Procurations." "Proxyes are yearly payments made by parish priests to their bishop, or archdeacon, in _lieu of victuals for the visitor and his attendants_" (which it was formerly the custom to provide). "Senage. The Senes be only courts to gather Senage and Proxye. The bishop should hold a Synod or Sene twice a year."--Becon's _Reliques of Rome_, p. 213. "The priests should come to the Sene as they were wont to do." The senes, courts, or ecclesiastical councils, were held for the purpose of correcting any neglect or omissions of the Church Reeves (as they were called), and fining them for such omissions, as well as receiving the usual and accustomed payments; and sometimes they were fined for having _secreted some Catholic reliques_, which were discovered by the visitors (of course after the Reformation), as I have found entries of fines having been paid; and more frequently are entries of "Payd for the withdraft" of the charge for some neglect in not providing articles necessary for the performance of divine worship. In Sir Thomas More's _Works_, folio, 1557, pp. 909., 991., "Senes or Indightments" (perhaps Citements or Citations) are mentioned. No doubt (I think) the term _senege_ is derived from these courts being termed "Senes" and "Seens." G. H. I. Norwich, July 5. 1851.