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 12 s. ix. NOV. 26, 1921.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 423 of Winchester, and Vicar of Hambledon, Hants, 1554, was deprived and succeeded in 1559. His name is in Sander's list, so that he was probably deprived as a Catholic, | but he had previously been deprived of the Rectory of St. James, Garlickhithe, in 1557/8 (see Hennessy's ' Novum Repertorium '). According to Wood's ' Fasti,' i. 110, he never took the degree of B.D. In Rymer's ' Foedera,' xv. 543, he is called William Landeridge. He was in the Marshalsea Nov. 2, 1559, in bad health (Birt's ' Eliza- bethan Religious Settlement,' p. 169).] Sept. 28. Obitus Johannis Erie monachi, 1570. [See 10 S. viii. 448.] Oct. 3. Obitus Wilhelmi Way, 1577. Oct. 4. Obitus Anne Tucker. Oct. 17. Obitus Margarete Gascoyne, 1575. Oct. 28. Obitus Michaelis Barfote, 1560. Nov. 6. Obitus Johannis Constable. Nov. 11. Obitus Ambrosii Barnabe, 1573. Nov. 23. Obitus venerabilis Richardi Pates episcopi Wigorniensis, 1565. [See ' D.N.B.' ; see also Gillow's ' Bibliographical Diet. Eng. Cath.,' and Bridgett and Knox, ' The True Story of the Catholic Hierarchy under Elizabeth,' p. 76, and Phillips, ' Extinction of the Ancient Hierarchy,' pp. 19-22.] Nov. 29. Obitus matris Thome Cook. [See 10 i S. ix. 8.] Dec. 2. Obitus Johannis Margatete [? Margarete] uxoris eius Johanne Agnetis Walteri Guil- helmi liberorum eius. Dec. 12. Obitus Johannis Baylie presbyteri. ; [Cf. Sept. 4, supra.] Dec. 17. Obitus Helisei Wynne, 1560. Dec. 18. Obitus Nicolai Harpsfylde sacerdotis, 1575. [See ' D.N.B.' and 10 S. i. 224.] j I do not find the obits of Richard Pates, the : deprived Bishop of Worcester, or of Morphea, the last Abbess of Whorwell, or of the two Harps- fields mentioned elsewhere. The Cooke family were probably connected with the Abbess of Whorwell as John Cooke is mentioned among those who had annuities from that nunnery (' Monasticon,' ii.,'p. 635, where the names also of Foster, Woodlocke, &c., occur : and the name Matilda Parcher there given is perhaps the same as .Matilda Pavier in the above list). Sir Edward Wal(de)grave, one of Mary's chief supporters, died Sept. 1, 1561. In two or three places the letters are rather obscure, and in one or two dates are not quite certain. I have given them according to modern reckoning. Perhaps some of your readers can supply further information ! about these names. CHARLES WILLIAM BOASE. TVtay I make the same request, and also [ ask for the identification of the writer of the Necrology ? It may be pointed out that one William Wodelok entered Win- chester College from Wherwell, aged 11, in 1472 (Kirby, p. 82). JOHN B. WAINEWBIGHT. ENGLISH ARMY SLANG AS USED IN THE GREAT WAR. (See 12 S. ix. 341, 378, 383, 415.) THOSE who are interested in Army slang may, before perusing the new list "of war words, like to see this ingenious poem quoted by M. Francois Dechelette in his ' L' Argot des Poilus,' p. 164 (Paris, 1918). The English translation, by my friend Mr. Wilfred S. Jackson, seems to me an extraordinary feat rendering as it does both the slang and the poetry of the original the letter and the spirit. LE POILU. (ANON.) Un poilu, c'est un tas de glaise et de gresil, Agremente d'un sac, aggrave d'un fusil. Ca vous a constamment la bouffarde a la gueule : C'est vetu comme un ours et . . . ca n'est pas begueule, Mais c'est si delicat, ce pithecanthropus Que ca se fait conduire au bal en autobus. Est-ce un grognard ? Non pas. Un Marie - Louise ?* Mieux. C'est 1'un et 1'autre dans la meme chemise. C'est aussi bien Barras, que Lannes ou Mass6na, C'est 1' archer de Bouvines, et le dragon d'lena, C'est un monde, une epoque, un symbole, une aurore, Un rayon prodigieux, un astre, un meteore ; Un beau r&ve enchasse dans du cuir et du fer, C'est parfois un sourire, et parfois un enfer, C'est toujours un heros, trop souvent anonyme,f D'Artagnan dans Brutus, Kleber dans Cyrano, Un poilu, c'est une ame avec un numero. Ca mange, on ne sait quand, Qa vit comme un ter- mite, C'est fier comme un vidame, et pur comme un her- mite ; C'est inapercu, innommable, et c'est couvert de poux. C'est votre fiance, madame. . . ou votre epoux. LE POILU. In mud and in rime he must shiver and stifle, Adorned with a kit-bag, weighed down with a rifle ; He's never without a pipe stuck in his face, he Looks much like a bear and his speech is well, racy. And yet he's so nice, is this hairy baboon, He will ride in his bus when the Hun calls the tune. He's veteran, he's rooky, whichever you choose, Nay, better, he's both in the one pair of shoes ; to the conscript called up under the seal of Marie- Louise in 1814, when appointed Regent by Napoleon (Esnault). (See Inter me 'diaire des cher- cheurs et curieux, Ixx., p. 180 : Bulletin des Armies, Sept. 20, 1916, p. 13, c. i.) Henry Houssaye addresses an eloquent ' Salut ' to these " boys " who so distinguished themselves in 1814 at Valjouan, Montereau, Bar-sur-Aube and Craonne that the name has persisted to this day for French " rookies." f ? line omitted in original.
 * Recruit of the 1915 class : the name given