PAL 
PAL 
PAL'LlDNESS, f. Palenefs.—Let no man be difcou- 
raged with the palluhie/s of piety at firft, nor captivated 
with the teeming frefhnefs of terrene pleafures; both will 
change; and, though we may be deceived in both, we fhall 
be fure to be cheated but in one. Fdlliain's Ref. ii. 66. 
PAL'LIER, f. [French.] In carpentry, a landing-place 
in a ftaircafe, a Itep broader than the reft, which ferves for 
a kind of refting-place. 
PALLIFICA'TION, /i See Palification. 
PALLIGOR AM', a town of Hindooftan, in Golconda : 
twenty-five miles fouth-eaft of Hydrabad. 
PALLIJO'W, a town of Hindooftan, in Bahar: forty- 
five miles fouth-weft of Patna. 
PALLIO'T (Peter), an induftrious genealogift, was 
born at Paris in 1608. He fettled at Dijon, where he 
married the daughter of a printer, and followed the fame 
profeftion. From an early age he had attached himfelf to 
the ft.udies of genealogy and heraldry, which he continued 
to purfue with great aftiduiry, publifhing various works 
upon thofe fubje&s. Of thefe the molt valued are, 1. 
Le Parlement de Bourgogne, 1640, folio; to which ano¬ 
ther volume was added by Fr. Petitot, in 1733. 2. Science 
des Armories de Gelliot, augmentee de plus de 6000 
Ecuflons; Paris, 1660, folio. His other works are genea¬ 
logical hiftories of particular families; and he left in ma- 
nufcript thirteen volumes, folio, of memoirs concerning 
the families of Burgundy. Palliot not only printed his 
own works, but engraved with his own hand all the very 
numerous heraldic plates by which they were illuftrated. 
He died at Dijon in 1698, at the age of eighty-nine, 
Moreri. 
PALLISA'DE. See Palisade. 
PAL'LISER (Sir Hugh, Bart.), a diftinguilhed naval 
officer, was born at Kirk Deighton, in the county of 
York, (and not in Ireland, as has been erroneoufly ftated.) 
He early diftinguilhed himfelf in the fervice ; and in 1748, 
on-board the Captain, in a defperate action in the Medi¬ 
terranean, with a frigate of fuperior force, received a 
fhot in his leg, and two balls in his body, by the ex- 
plofion of an arm-ciieft, which alfo killed two perfons on 
the quarter-deck. This wound, baffling all the Ikill of 
the faculty, fubjedled him ever after to ceafelefs torture. 
His uncle was a colonel, and wounded under lord Gal¬ 
way; and his father (a captain in the army), although 
fhot through both cheeks in the difaftrous battle of Al¬ 
manza, yet furvived many years. 
Sir Hugh, notwithitanding this wound, proceeded in 
the high career of nautical fame till the lamentable 27th 
of July, 1778, when admiral Keppel and vice-admiral 
Pallifer preferred counter-charges of accufation againft 
each other, for their conduit on that day : the intrepidity 
of the latter, on this occalion, was allowed even by his 
enemies ; but the merits were foon converted into a quef- 
tion of party violence, in which the profeffional reputa¬ 
tion of thofe officers (though both were acquitted) was 
indifcriminately wrecked! See the article England, 
vol. vi. p. 748, 9. 
Soon after this, his majefty, on the death of admiral 
fir Charles Hardy, appointed fir Hugh to the government 
of Greenwich Hofpital; when, refigning his feat in par¬ 
liament, he retired from all public concerns, except the 
duties of his government, which were always ably and 
unremittingly difcharged. 
Sir Hugh was a man of undaunted courage, and pof- 
feffied a great fhare of nautical knowledge; and the wife 
and falutary laws which he caufed to be enafled for the 
benefit of his country, and the comfort and happinefs of 
the poor fifhermen in Newfoundland, during his govern¬ 
ment of that province, were proofs of a found mind, and a 
humane and benevolent difpofition. He entered into the 
fervice very early in life. He was made a captain in 1746, 
and in 1762 governor of Newfoundland ; in 1765 he con¬ 
cluded a peace with the Indians, upon the back fettle- 
ments of Canada; in 1770 he was made a rear-admiral, 
and in the fame year one of the Elder Brethren of the 
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Trinity; in 1771 he was appointed a Comptroller of the 
Navy; in 1773 created a Baronet, and in 1775 he was 
chofen M.P. for Scarborough ; in 1776 he was made one 
of the Lords of the Admiralty, and in 1778 a Vice-Ad¬ 
miral, Lieutenant-General of Marines, and Governor of 
Scarborough Caftle; in 1780 he was appointed Mafter and 
Governor of Greenwich Hofpital; in 1781 he was 
chofen to reprefent the borough of Huntingdon in par¬ 
liament; and 1787 he attained the rank of Admiral of 
the White. For the laft fifteen or fixteen years of his 
life he feldom lay down on a bed: from theconftant pain 
in his leg, he was under the neceffity of compoling him¬ 
felf in an eafy chair, ileeping at intervals; and, when 
awake, he placed the wounded limb on the contrary knee, 
in which pofition'he employed himfelf in rubbing the 
bone (for it was literally no more), to affuage the pain, 
till deep again infenfibly overtook him. The immediate 
caufe of his death was occafioned by a dropfical habit of 
body, to which he had always been fubjedt; and, after a 
fevere illnefs of five months, he died at his feat called 
Vache, in Buckinghamfhire, on the 19th of March, 1796, 
in the 75th year of his age. Gent. Mag. vol. lxvi. 
PAL'LISER’s ISLANDS, a duller of iflands in^the 
South Pacific Ocean ; the larged about fifteen miles long 
and nine broad ; connected together by a reef of coral 
rocks, and difficult of accefs. Lat. 15. 16. S. Ion, 146. 
T47.W. 
PAL'LIUM, or Pall,_/1 A pontifical ornament worn 
by popes, patriarchs, primates, and metropolitans, of the 
Romilh church, over their other garments, as a fign of 
their jurifdiftion. It is in form of a band, or fillet, three 
fingers broad, and encompaftes the Ihoulder; whence, by 
fome authors, it is called fuper-humerale. It has pen¬ 
dants, or firings, about a palm long, both before and be¬ 
hind ; with little laminae of lead, rounded at the extremes, 
and covered with black filk, with four red crofles. 
Some, with Eufebius, will have the pallium to have 
been introduced by pope Linus; adding that, as the 
ephod was the mark of the pontifical authority in the 
Jewifh fynagogue, fo is the pallium in the Romilh church. 
Others have obferved, that there is no mention of it be¬ 
fore the year 336. Laltly, others will have it to have 
been firll granted by Conllantine the Great to pope Syl- 
vefter; from whence it palled to the other patriarchs and 
archbilhops. 
The pallium, it is certain, was originally part of the 
imperial habit, being then a rich robe of ftate, very mag¬ 
nificent, and reaching quite to the ground ; and it has 
been faid, that the bifhops of Rome were allowed to wear 
it by Constantine the Great, and that, in procefs of time, 
the lame honour w'as granted by the emperors to the 
other patriarchs. Hence, when they were either driven 
from their fees, or voluntarily quitted them, they returned 
their palls to the emperors. When the popes firft took 
upon them to grant that honorary badge, which they did 
before the pontificate of Gregory the Great, chofen in 
590, they did not prefume to do it till they had obtained 
leave of the emperor. But the fuccefidrs of Gregory, 
upon the decline of the empire, took upon them to bellow 
that mark of diftinflion independently of them, and as 
a gift of their own. However, that it might no longer 
be deemed part of the imperial habit, which it was trea- 
fonable to wear without leave from the emperors, they 
changed its ancient form to the prefent. 
At what time the popes aflumed the difpofing of the 
pallium independently of the emperors, is not well 
known; but it is certain, that no billiop was obliged to 
apply to Rome for it till the year 742, when Boniface- 
bilhop of Mentz perfuaded the bifhops of France and 
Germany to pafs a decree, obliging their metropolitans 
to apply to the pope for that ornament, and to promife, 
upon their receiving it, a canonical obedience to the com¬ 
mands of St. Peter. This praflice proving very favour¬ 
able to the ambitious defigns of the bilhops of Rome, 
they fpared no pains toimpofeit upon all metropolitans; 
ifluing. 
