is one of the better sort of horses used by noblemen or others for state; and sometimes of old taken for a horse fit for a woman to ride. Camden says, that William Fauconberge held the manor of Cukeny, in the county of Nottingham, in sergeantry, by the service of shoeing the king's palfrey when the king should come to Mansfield.

PALICAUD, or PALGATCHERRY, a fortress of considerable strength in India, which commands the passage between the two coasts of Malabar and Coromandel, by way of the Trichinopoly and Coimbettore countries; there is also a communication with it thro' the Nayre country. It is in the hands of the English; and is of great importance to them, because, as Coimbettore is in the hands of Tipppo, by our holding this place on the west, and Dindigul on the east of Coimbettore, the province is rendered of little use to Tipppo in time of war, unless he keeps a very large force there to protect it. See Memoir of a Map of the Peninsula of India by Major Rennel.