"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."
"Une haute coupe d'argent enorrez appellez _l'anap_ de les pinacles pois de troie vii lb pris la lb xl. Summa xiii li."
"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:--
"He was as pale as a pelet, In the palsy he semed And clothed in a _kaurymaury_, I kouthe it nought diseryve."
_Bishop Burnet as an Historian._--Dr. Joseph Warton told my father that "Old Lord Barthurst," 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 note on them. Lord Bathurst did not, I believe, charge Burnet with deliberate misrepresentation, but considered some of his presumed facts _questionable_, for the reason stated.
_Dance Thumbkin._--In the _Book of Nursery Rhymes_, published by the Percy Society, there is a small error of importance, involving no less that 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 that the nurseling 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 "NOTES AND QUERIES," male or female, _only try_), but it is not the correct text. Betty Richins has "borne me on her knee a hundred times" and sung it thus:--