"Pilche, or pilcher, a scabbard, from pylche, a skin coat, Saxon. A pilche, or leather coat, seems to have been the common dress for a carman. Coles has 'a pilch for a saddle, instratum,' which explains that it was an external covering, and probably of leather. Kersey also calls it a covering for a saddle; but he likewise gives it the sense of 'a piece of flannel to be wrapt about a young child.' It seems, therefore, to have been used for any covering." (Nares' Glossary.)
C. B.
Catalogues of Coins of Canute (Vol. iii., p. 326.).
—The following is a copy of the title-page of the work referred to by Βορεας:—A Catalogue of the Coins of Canute, King of Denmark and England; with Specimens. London: Printed by W. Bowyer and J. Nichols. 4to. 1777. It consists of twenty-four pages, and was compiled by Richard Gough, Esq.
J. Y.
Pontoppidan's Natural History of Norway (Vol. iii., p. 326.).
—An interesting notice of this work occurs in the Retrospective Review, vol. xiii., pp. 181-213.; but neither in that article nor in any bibliographical or biographical dictionary is the name of the translator given.
J. Y.
The First Panorama (Vol. iii., p. 406.).
—I have often heard my father say, that the first panorama exhibited was painted by Thomas Girtin, and was a semicircular view of London, from the top of the Albion Mills, near Blackfriars Bridge. It was exhibited in St. Martin's Lane, where, not many years back, I saw it, it having been found rolled up in a loft over a carpenter's shop. It was painted about 1793 or 1794, and my father has some of the original sketches.