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