[Our correspondent will find, on referring to Kilian's
_Dictionarium Teutonico-Latino-Gallicum_, that the word
_Kavel_ is used for sors, "sors in divisione bonorum:" and
among other definitions of the verb _Kavelen_, "sorte dividere
terram," which corresponds exactly with his _cavelled and
allotted_.]
* * * * *
_Gootet_ (No. 25. p. 397.).--Is not this word a corruption of
_good-tide_, i.e. holiday or festival? In Halliwell's _Archaeological
Dictionary_ I find,--
"Good-day, a holiday; Staff.
"Gooddit, shrovetide; North. Shrove Tuesday is called Goodies
Tuesday.
"Good-time, a festival; Jonson."
C.W.G.
* * * * *
_Salt ad Montem_ (No. 24. p. 384.) _as meaning Money_.--_Salt_ is
an old metaphor for money, cash, pay; derived, says Arbuthnot, from
_salt's_ being part of the pay of the Roman soldiers; hence _salarium,
salary_, and the levying contributions at _Salt_ Hill. Your Querist
will find several explanations of the Eton Montem in the _Gentleman's
Magazine_; and a special account of the ceremony, its origin and
circumstances, in Lyson's _Mag. Brit._ i. 557.
C.
* * * * *
_Pamphlets respecting Ireland_ (No. 24. p. 384.)--I would refer
"I." to No. 6161. in the Catalogue of Stowe Library, sold by Leigh
Sotheby and Co., in January 1849. That lot consisted of two vols. of
twenty-six tracts, 4to. Amongst them is "Gookin, the Author and Case
of Transplanting the Irish in Connaught Vindicated, from Col. R.
Lawrence, 1655." Messrs. Leigh Sotheby will probably be able to inform
the Querist into whose hands these two vols. passed. The lot sold for
the large sum of 4l. 18s.
* * * * *
_Pimlico_ (No. 24. p. 383.).--The derivation of this word is explained
from the following passage in a rare (if not unique) tract now before
me, entitled _Newes from Hogsdon_, 1598:--
"Have at thee, then, my merrie boyes, and hey for old _Ben
Pimlico's_ nut-browne."
Pimlico kept a place of entertainment in or near Hoxton, and was
celebrated for his nut-brown ale. The place seems afterwards to have
been called by his name, and is constantly mentioned by our early
dramatists. In 1609 a tract was printed, entitled _Pimlyco, or Runne
Red Cap, 'tis a Mad World at Hogsdon_. Isaac Reed (Dodsley's _Old
Plays_, ed. Collier, vii. 51.) says,--
"A place near Chelsea is still called Pimlico, and was
resorted to within these few years, on the same account as the
former at Hogsdon."
Pimlico is still, I believe, celebrated for its fine ale.
EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.
* * * * *
_Pimlico_ (No. 24. p. 383.).--I see, by a passage in Lord Orrery's
Letters, that there was a place called Pemlicoe in Dublin:--
"Brown is fluctuant; he once lay at a woman's house in
Pemlicoe, Dublin." (_Earl of Orrery to Duke of Ormond_, Feb.
5. 1663, in _Orrery's State Letters_.)
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