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NOTES AND QUERIES. [9* s. viii. AUG. 17, 1901,

dormer & cea Officiers quatre deniers et un chapeau de roses ; et au cas qu'elles ne veuillent pas aller danser avec les Officiers sur ce ordonnez, ils peuvent piquer d'un baton marqu6 aux armes du Seigneur, et ferr6 au bout en maniere d'aiguillpn, ladite Femme jolie qui refusera d'aller danser, trois fois aux fesses. Le meme Seigneur a droit ce jour-l& de contraindre par lui meme ou ces Officiers toutes les femmes qui ne seront pas jolies, de Bourdeau, qui seront notoirement diffam6es de ribaudie, de venir ladite Dame de Pac6 avec lesdites femmes jolies ; ou de payer cinq sols au Seigneur."

THOMAS J. JEAKES. Tower House, New Hampton.

ANGLO- HEBREW SLANG : " KYBOSH " (9 th S. vii. 188, 276, 416 ; viii. 87). I have long been familiar with this word, but only in a sense which I do not think any of your contributors have yet assigned to it : to " put the kybpsh on " a project, to give to a scheme or agita- tion its quietus. A and B devised a clever plan, but it failed of accomplishment, because C put the kybosh on it i.e., nipped the pro- ject in the bud, or " squelched " the scheme on the eve of its fulfilment.

JOHN HOBSON MATTHEWS.

Town Hall, Cardiff.

"SNICKET" (9 th S. vii. 348, 512; viii. 52). When cotton or string has got tangled I have heard it spoken of hereabouts as being "all snick-snarles." Miss Baker gives snarl as "an old word for entangle."

JOHN T. PAGE.

West Haddon, Northamptonshire.

CHARLES LAMB AND THE ROYAL ACADEMY (9 th S. viii. 104). The G. D. referred to by Charles Lamb is George Dawe. He is buried between Landseer and Fuseli in the Artists' Corner of the Crypt, St. Paul's Cathedral. The following inscription is carved on the slab which covers his grave :

Here are deposited the Remains of

George Dawe, Esq ro ,

Historical & Portrait Painter,

Royal Academician,

Principal Painter

to His Imperial Majesty

Nicholas l Mt, Emperor of Russia,

Member of the Imperial Academy

of Arts at St. Petersburgh

and of the Academies of Stockholm, Florence, &c., &c. He was born February 6 th, 1781.

Died October 15 th, 1829.

Dawe visited Russia in 1819, and is said to have painted four hundred portraits there. He was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1809, and became an R.A. in 1814. Two of his portraits are in the National Portrait Gallery. They represent the Princess Charlotte of Wales and the Rev. Samuel Parr,

LL.D., and were purchased by the trustees from Mr. Wright, the nephew of the artist.

JOHN T. PAGE. West Haddon, Northamptonshire.

G. D. is George Dawe, a portrait painter, born in London in 1781. In 1819 he went to Russia. He became an A.R.A. in 1809 and an R.A. in 1814. He died in 1829, and was buried in St. Paul's Cathedral. MR. HEBB will find a short account of George Dawe in Bryan's * Dictionary of Painters,' vol. i. p. 356, and a full account of him in the ' Dictionary of National Biography.'

HARRY B. POLAND.

Temple.

The G D. Lamb sneered at, who painted the Empress of Russia, and was buried in St. Paul's, was George Dawe. Many of his works were engraved, including portraits and subject-pictures. He did not deserve Lamb's sneers. O.

SITE OF BRUNANBURH (9 th S. viii. 100). It will not be without interest to place on record that when the late Prof. Freeman was lecturing at the Royal Institution, Hull, he was asked to name the site of this battle. In reply he said that it was impossible to state the place with certainty, but the best evidenc e pointed to Bamborough, Northumberland. WILLIAM ANDREWS.

Royal Institution, Hull.

"RACING" (9 th S. viii. 104). This particular meaning is not given in either Webster or ' The Imperial Dictionary.' The derivation, from the O.H.G. reiza, a line, is obvious. In the Black Country also the word is used pre- cisely as indicated by the querist. It is note- worthy that the " racing " of a steam engine, a term applied to events arising from the sudden removing of the load, is not given by the second authority named. W. Clark Russell, in his * Sailors' Language,' says :

" The engines of a steamer ' race ' when they work with great rapidity from the loss of resisting power, caused, for instance, by the breaking of the shaft, or the dropping off of the propeller, or the raising of the stern of the ship, thereby lifting the screw out of the water."

It is from causes similar to that first named that "racing" occurs in stationary engines. The word in this second meaning is derived from the A.-S. roes, a rush.

ARTHUR MAYALL.

HIGH AND Low : CONSERVATIVE AND LIBERAL (9 th S. vii. 128, 238). Your North- amptonshire correspondent will be glad to know that in 1748, at the election for that county, Mr. Knightley was the candidate