_Gootet_ (No. 25. p. 397.).--Is not this word a corruption of _good-tide_, i.e. holiday or festival? In Halliwell's _Archæological Dictionary_ I find,--
"Gooddit, shrovetide; North. Shrove Tuesday is called Goodies Tuesday.
_Salt ad Montem_ (No. 24. p. 384.) _as meaning Money_.--_Salt_ is an old metaphor for money, cash, pay; derived, says Arbuthnot, from _salt's_ being part of the pay of the Roman soldiers; hence _salarium, salary_, and the levying contributions at _Salt_ Hill. Your Querist will find several explanations of the Eton Montem in the _Gentleman's Magazine_; and a special account of the ceremony, its origin and circumstances, in Lyson's _Mag. Brit._ i. 557.
_Pamphlets respecting Ireland_ (No. 24. p. 384.)--I would refer "I." to No. 6161. in the Catalogue of Stowe Library, sold by Leigh Sotheby and Co., in January 1849. That lot consisted of two vols. of twenty-six tracts, 4to. Amongst them is "Gookin, the Author and Case of Transplanting the Irish in Connaught Vindicated, from Col. R. Lawrence, 1655." Messrs. Leigh Sotheby will probably be able to inform the Querist into whose hands these two vols. passed. The lot sold for the large sum of 4l. 18s.
_Pimlico_ (No. 24. p. 383.).--The derivation of this word is explained from the following passage in a rare (if not unique) tract now before me, entitled _Newes from Hogsdon_, 1598:--
"Have at thee, then, my merrie boyes, and hey for old _Ben Pimlico's_ nut-browne."
Pimlico kept a place of entertainment in or near Hoxton, and was celebrated for his nut-brown ale. The place seems afterwards to have been called by his name, and is constantly mentioned by our early dramatists. In 1609 a tract was printed, entitled _Pimlyco, or Runne Red Cap, 'tis a Mad World at Hogsdon_. Isaac Reed (Dodsley's _Old Plays_, ed. Collier, vii. 51.) says,--
"A place near Chelsea is still called Pimlico, and was resorted to within these few years, on the same account as the former at Hogsdon."
Pimlico is still, I believe, celebrated for its fine ale.
_Pimlico_ (No. 24. p. 383.).--I see, by a passage in Lord Orrery's Letters, that there was a place called Pemlicoe in Dublin:--
"Brown is fluctuant; he once lay at a woman's house in Pemlicoe, Dublin." (_Earl of Orrery to Duke of Ormond_, Feb. 5. 1663, in _Orrery's State Letters_.)