There are no monuments remaining.

Highfield, with the manor of Upton Cheyney, was a considerable estate in 1627, where it was passed by fine from John and Mary Barker to Vincent Gookin, Esq.

In 1646, Vincent Gookin, Esq. (no doubt the knight’s son), and Mary his wife, and Robert Gookin their son, Gent., passed the same estates by fine to Dr. Samuel Bave, after which it is supposed the Gookins left the parish.  In Sims’ Index are references to pedigrees under Gokin, Kent.  Any further notices of Sir Vincent or his son would be acceptable to

H.T.  ELLACOMBE. 
Bitton, May 20, 1850.

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 pee
    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.”