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NOTES AND QUERIES. 
probably be able to inform the Querist into whose 
hands these two vols. passed. The lot sold for the 
large sum of 41. 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. Epwarp F. Rimpavtr. 
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.) 
This may be of use to “R. H.,” who inquires 
about the origin of Pimlico. Ranelagh, in the 
same parts, is doubtless also of Irish origin. 
CH. 
[Pimlico in Dublin still exists, as will be seen by 
reference to Thom’s Jrish Almanac, where we find 
« Pimlico, from Coombe to Tripoli.”] 
Bive and Chute Lambs (No.6. p. 93.).—I do 
not know whether my answer to your correspon- 
dent’s inquiry about dive and chute lambs will be 
satisfactory, inasmuch as the price he gives of 
“ bive” lambs “ apeece” is larger than the price of 
the “chute.” ‘Twin lambs are still called dive 
lambs on the borders of Sussex and Kent; and 
chute lambs are fat lambs. 
Chuet is an-old word signifying a fat greasy 
pudding. It is rightly applied to Falstaff :— 
“ Peace, chewet, peace.” 
Ist Part K. Hen. IV. 
Wm. Durrant Cooper. 
Latin Names of Towns. — “M.” (No. 25. p. 402.) 
wishes for some guide with reference to the Latin 
names of towns. A great deal of assistance may 
be obtained from an octavo volume, published 
anonymously, and bearing the title “ Dictionnaire 
Interpréte-manuel des Noms Latins de la Géo- 
graphie ancienne et moderne; pour servir a I'In- 
[No. 29. 
telligence des Auteurs Latins, principalement des 
Auteurs Classiques; avec les Désignations prin- 
cipales des Lieux. Ouvrage utile 4 ceux qui 
lisent les Poétes, les Historiens, les Martyrologes, 
les Chartes, les vieux Actes,” &c. &e. <A Paris, 
1777. R. G. 
Le Petit Albert (No. 24. p.385.).—I suspect 
this Petit Albert, in 32mo.—a size in harmony 
with the cognomen—is only a catchpenny publi- 
cation, to which the title of Ze Petit Albert has 
been given by way of resembling its name to that 
of Albertus Magnus, who wrote a work or works 
of a character which gave rise, in the middle ages, 
to the accusation that he practised magical arts; 
and hence, probably, any abridgement or compen- 
dium of them, or any little work on such arts, 
would be styled by the French compiler Le Petit 
Albert. In the Biographie Universelle, it is affirmed 
that the rhapsodies known under the name of 
Secrets du Petit Albert are not by Albertus Mag- 
nus; a statement which favours the belief that the 
work mentioned by your correspondent “ Jariz- 
BERG” is one of that vulgar class (like our old 
Moore’s Almanack, &c.) got up for sale among 
the superstitious and the ignorant, and palmed on 
the world under the mask of a celebrated name. 
According to Bayle, Albertus Magnus has, by 
some, been termed Le Petit Albert, owing, it 1s 
said, to the diminutiveness of his stature, which 
was on so small a scale, that when he, on one 
occasion, paid his respects to the pope, the pontiff 
supposed he was still kneeling at his feet after he 
had risen up and was standing erect. J. M. 
Oxford, April 19. 
[Of Le Petit Albert, of which it appears by Grasse’s 
Bibliotheca Magica there were editions printed at Co- 
logne in 1722, Lyons 1775, and even at Paris in 1837, 
we are told in Colin de Planey’s Dictionnaire Infernal, 
s. vy. Albert le Grand, “ On a quelquefois défendu ce 
livre, et alors il s'est vendu énormément cher. ] 
Walter Lynne (No. 23. p. 367.).—“ G. P.” may 
look for Walter Lynne into Johnson’s Typo- 
graphia, i. 556., of which copies may be had very 
reasonably at Mr. Miller’s (see end of No. 15.), 
| 43. Chandos Street. 
Your intimation of brevity is attended to; 
though, in truth, little more could come from 
Novus. 
Emancipation of the Jews (No 25. p. 491.).— 
“H. M. A.” inquires—1l. If the story mentioned 
in the Thurloe State Papers, that the Jews sought 
to obtain St. Paul’s Cathedral for a Synagogue, 
has been confirmed by other writers? In Kgan’s 
Status of the Jews in England, I find the following 
passage : — 
«“ Monteith informs us, that during the Common- 
wealth, overtures were made on behalf of the Hebrews 
