My copy is on miserable paper, yet priced 31s. 6d., with this remark in MS. by some former possessor: "Very rare: which will not be wondered at by any one who will read five pages carefully." E. D. _Lack-a-daisy_ (Vol. vi., p. 353.).--Todd had better have allowed Johnson to speak for himself: _lack-a-daisy, lack-a-day, alack the day_, as Juliet's nurse exclaims, and _alas-the-day_, are only various readings of the same expression. And of such inquiries and such solutions as Todd's, I cannot refrain from expressing my sentiments in the {63} words of poor Ophelia, "Alack! and fye for shame!" Q. Bloomsbury. _Bacon_ (Vol. ii., p. 247.; Vol. iii., p. 41.).--I think that you have not noticed one very common use of this word, as evidently meaning _beechen._ Schoolboys call tops made of boxwood, _boxers;_ while the inferior ones, which are generally made of beechwood, they call _bacons._ H. T. RILEY. _Angel-beast--Cleek--Longtriloo_ (Vol. v., p. 559.).--An account of these games, the nature of which is required by your correspondent, is given in the _Compleat Gamester_, frequently reprinted in the latter part of the seventeenth century. The first, which is there called _beast_, is said to derive its name from the French _la bett_, meaning, no doubt, _bete_. It seems to have resembled the game of loo. _Gleek_ is the proper name of the second game, and not _check_, as your correspondent suggests. It was played by three persons, and the cards bore the names of Tib, Tom, Tiddy, Towser, and Tumbler. Hence we may conclude that it was an old English game. The third game, or _lanterloo_, is evidently the original form of the game now known as _loo_. Its name would seem to indicate a Dutch origin. H. T. RILEY. _Hans Krauwinckel_ (Vol. v., p. 450.).--When the ground in Charterhouse Square was opened in 1834, for the purposes of sewerage (I believe), vast numbers of bones and skeletons were found, being the remains, as was supposed, of those who died of the Plague in 1348, and had been interred in that spot, as forming a part of Pardon Churchyard, which had lately been purchased by Sir Walter Manny, for the purposes of burial, and attached to the Carthusian convent there. Among the bones a few galley halfpence, and other coins, were found, as also a considerable number of abbey counters or jettons. I do not recollect if there was any date on the counters but the name "Hans Krauwinckel" occurred on some of them which fell into my possession, and which I gave some years ago to the Museum of the City Library, Guildhall. If these were coeval, as was generally supposed, with the Plague of 1348, it is singular that the same name should be found on abbey counters with the date 1601. I should be obliged if any of your correspondents could inform me when the use of jettons ceased in England; and whether Pardon Churchyard was used as a place of sepulture after 1348, and, if so, how long? H. T. RILEY.