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:--

"He was as pale as a pelet,
In the palsy he semed
And clothed in a _kaurymaury_,
I kouthe it nought diseryve."

W.C.
Jun.

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MISCELLANIES

_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.

ELIJAH WARING.

_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:--