Exchequer. “Hanaper office,” an office where all writs relating to the public were formerly kept in a hamper (in hanaperʹio). Hanaper is a cover for a hanap.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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