July 16. 1853.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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words of poor Ophelia, "Alack! and fye for 

 shame ! " Q- 



Bloomsbury. 



Bacon (Vol. ii., p. 247. ;^ Vol. In., 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 re- 

 printed in the latter part of the seventeenth cen- 

 tury. The first, which is there called beast, is said 

 to derive Its name from the French la bett, mean- 

 ing, 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. RiiiEX. 



Hans Krauwinchel (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. KiLEY. 



Revolving Toy (Vol. vi., p. 517.).— The Chinese 

 have lanterns with paper figures In them which 

 revolve by the heat, and are very common about 

 l^ew Year time. H. B. 



Shanghai. 



Rub-a-dub (Vol. ill., p. 388.). — Your corre- 

 spondent seems at a loss for an early Instance of 

 this expression. In Percy's Reliques there is a 

 song, the refrain or burden of which Is : 

 " Rub-a-dub, rub-a-dub, so beat your drums, 

 Tantara, tantara, the Englishman comes." 



H. T. Riley. 



Muffs worn by Gentlemen. — In one of Gold- 

 smith's Essays I remember well an allusion to the 

 practice. The writer of the letter, or essay, states 

 that he met his female cousin In the Mall, and after 

 some sparring conversation, she ridicules him for 

 carrying " a nasty oZc^-fashioned [a.d. 1760] muff;'* 

 and his retort Is, that he " heartily wishes It were 

 a tippet, for her sake," — glancing at her dress, 

 which was, I suppose, somewhat what we moderns 

 call " decoUetee. E. C. G. 



Detached Church Towers. — The Norman tower 

 at Bury St. Edmund's should not be included in 

 the lists. Although now used as the bell tower of 

 the neighbouring church of St. James, It was 

 erected several centuries before the church, and 

 was known as the " Great Gate of the Church- 

 yard," or the " Great Gate of the Church of St. 

 Edmund." It would be very desirable to add to 

 the list the date of the tower, and its distance from 

 the church. Buriensis. 



Add to the list the modern Roman Catholic 

 chapel at Baltinglass, Ireland. It has a detached 

 tower built in a field above it, and, although de- 

 void of architectural beauty, is so placed that it 

 appears an integral part of the chapel from almost 

 any point of view. Alexander Leeper. 



Dublin. 



Is not the bell-tower at Hackney detached from 

 the church ? I do not remember that it has been 

 yet named by your correspondents. B. H. C. 



Christian Names (Vol. vli., pp. 406. 626.). — On 

 the name of Beslllus Fetiplace, Sheriflf of Berk- 

 shire, In 26 Elizabeth, Fuller remarks, — 



" Some may 'colourably mistake it for Basilius or 

 Basil, Avhereas indeed it is Besil, a surname .... 

 Reader, I am confident an instance can hardly be pro- 

 duced of a surname made Christian, in England, save 

 since the Reformation ; before which time the priests 

 were scrupulous to admit any at font, except they were 

 baptized with the name of a Scripture or legendary 

 saint. Since, it hath been common ; and although the 

 Lord Coke was pleased to say he had noted many of 

 them prove unfortunate, yet the good success in others 

 confutes the general truth of the observation." — Worthies, 

 vol. i. pp. 159, 160., edit. Nuttall. 



J. C. R. 



Lord C. of Ireland, which Mr. William Bates 



guesses to be Lord Castlereagh, was Lord Clare, 

 hancellor of Ireland, who used also to call men 



