subs. phr. (old).—A poverty-stricken place.

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  1579.  GOSSON, The Schoole of Abuse, 52. Comming to Chenas, a blind village, in comparison of Athens a PALTOCKES INNE, he found one Miso well governing his house.

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  1582.  STANYHURST, Æneid, iii. 65.

        Swiftlye they determind too flee from a countrye so wycked,
PALTOCKS INNE leauing, too wrinche thee nauye too southward.

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