EPALLETS, (Hertfordshire) or PALLETS, 1 m. S. of Hitchin, in the road to Stevenage, is the vulgar name for Hippolet's, to a supposed saint of which name the Ch. was dedicated. " This saint (says Norden) passed for " a good breaker of colts, and was as " good a horse-leach; and was therefore " so reverenced after his death, " that all horsemen who travelled " that way, brought their steeds into " the Ch. up to this horse-breaker's " shrine at the altar, where a priest " attended to bestow fragments of St. " Hippolet's miracles upon their untamed " colts, and old wanton and " foundered jades; which miracles, " if well paid for, produced wonderful " cures. The horses were brought " out of the N. street thro' the N. " gate, and the N. door of the Ch. " which was boarded on purpose to " bring up the horses to the altar; " since which time, the Ch. has " always been boarded." This same custom of blessing horses, asses, &c. is still kept up yearly by the pope at Rome, and also by the priests in Spain, &c. Mean time Mr. Salmon, in his History of Hertfordshire, ridicules this story, tho' handed to us by Mr. Weaver and Mr. Chauncy; and says, " That this faint was no " hypocrite, but a real Bp. and a " martyr, for adhering to the sect " of Origen." The Pirral rises in this p. and runs by Much-Wimley to Ickleford.