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_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.
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_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.