is one of the better sort of houses 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 Cuckeny, in the county of Nottingham, in feriencrany, by the service of shoeing the king's palfrey when the king should come to Mansfield.

PALICAUD, or PALGATCHERRY, a fortres of considerable strength in India, which commands the passage between the two coasts of Malabar and Coromandel, by way of the Trichinopoly and Coimbatore countries: there is also a communication with it through the Nayre country. It was held by the English; and was of great importance to them, when Coimbatore was in the hands of Tippoo, because, by our holding this place on the west, and Dindigul on the east of Coimbatore, that province was of little use to him in the time of war, without a very large force to protect it. But the fall of that sovereign, and the reduction of his territories, have effected a total change of circumstances. See Memoir of a Map of the Peninsula of India by Major Remnel.