Chapter Palamedes to Palmyra of the Deccan of P by Brewer's Readers Handbook

(6) Of Scotland, the great stone of Scone, near Perth, which was removed by Edward I. to Westminster, and is still there, preserved in the coronation chair.

(7) Of Troy, a colossal wooden statue of Pallas Minerva, which “fell from heaven.” It was carried off by Ulysses and Diomede, by whom the city was taken and burned to the ground.

Pallet, a painter, “without any reverence for the courtesies of life.” In Smollett’s novel of Peregrine Pickle (1751).

The absurdities of Pallet are painted an inch thick, and by no human possibility could such an accumulation of comic disasters have befallen the characters of the tale.

Palm Sunday (Sad), March 29, 1461, the day of the battle of Towton, the most fatal of any domestic war ever fought. It is said that 37,000 English-men fell on this day.

Whose banks received the blood of many thousand men
On “sad Palm Sunday” siain, that Towton field we
call …
The bloodiest field betwixt the White Rose and the Red.
   —Drayton: Polyolbion, xxviii. (1622).

Palmer (Roundell), earl of Selborne, of Mixbury, in Oxfordshire (1812–1894). His Memorials (part i.), 1896, were edited by lady Sophia Palmer.

Palmerin of England, the hero and title of a romance in chivalry. There is also an inferior one entitled Palmerin de Oliva.

The next two books were Palmerin de Oliva and Palmerin of England. “The former,” said the curé, “shall be torn in pieces and burnt to the last ember; but Palmerin of England shall be preserved as a relique of antiquity, and placed in such a chest as Alexander found amongst the spoils of Darius, and in which he kept the writings of Homer. This same book is valuable for two things: first, for its own especial excellency, and next, because it is the production of a Portuguese monarch, famous for his literary talents. The adventures of the castle of Miraguarda therein are finely imagined, the style of composition is natural and elegant, and the utmost decorum is preserved throughout.”—Cervantes: Don Quixote, I. i. 6 (1605).

Palmira, daughter of Alcanor chief of Mecca. She and her brother Zaphna were taken captives in infancy, and brought up by Mahomet. As they grew in years, they fell in love with each other, not knowing their relationship; but when Mahomet laid siege to Mecca, Zaphna was appointed to assassinate Alcanor, and was himself afterwards killed by poison. Mahomet then proposed marriage to Palmira, but to prevent such an alliance, she killed herself.—James Miller: Mahomet the Impostor (1740).

Palmyra of the Deccan, Bijapur, in the Poonah district.

Palmyra of the North, St. Petersburg.