hanaper, hanypere

[Low Lat. han a perium a basket or ve el for keeping cups in; O. Fr. hanap a cup; A. S. hnæp; Dut. nap; О. Н. Ger. hnap; Gr. napf.] 1. Ord. Lang.: A large basket; a hamper. "Hanypere or hamper. Can i strum ." -Prompt . Parv. 2. Eng . Law : A kind of basket formerly used by the sovereigns of England in which to hold and carry their treasury while traveling from place to place; the royal treasury. The Clerk of the Hanaper received all moneys due to the Crown for sealing charters, patents, commi ions, and writs. He was ing, having with him leathern bags, into which he put all charters as they were sealed. There was also a Comptroller of the Hanaper, whose duty it was to see that the fees were duly paid into the hanaper. "This charge they laid to John Hales, clerk of the han aper, a good and public spirited man."- Strype : Метоrials; Edw . VI . (an. 1549). *hanaper_office, s. An office of the Court of Chancery. By 5 and 6 Vict. it was abolished, that Act transferring the duties to other offices. ( Eng . ) "These writs (relating to the busine on the subject) and the returns to them, were, according to the simplicity of ancient times, originally kept in a hamper, in han a perio; and the others (relating to such matters wherein the Crown is immediately or mediately concerned) were prepared in a little sack or bag; and thence hath arisen the distinction of the hanaper office and petty bag office." Black stone : Commentaries , bk. iii., ch. 4.