or a Palliative Cure, in medicine, is when, in desperate and incurable diseases, after predicting the fatal event, the physician prescribes some remedies for mitigating the pain or some other urgent symptoms, as in ulcerated cancers, or cancerous fistulas, and the like.

**PALLIO Cooperire**. It was an ancient custom, where children were born out of lawful wedlock, and their parents were afterwards married, that those children, together with the father and mother, should stand *pallio cooperi*, under a cloth, while the marriage was solemnized; which was a kind of adoption, and had the effect of a legitimation. Thus Robert Grofthead, the famous bishop of Lincoln, in one of his letters says: *In signum legitimationis, nati ante matrimonium confec-