Meyrick (_Ancient Armour_, vol. i. p. 155, 2d ed.) gives a curious and interesting inventory of the arms and armour of Louis le Hutin, King of France, taken in the year 1316, in which we find, "Item 3 coloretes _Pizanes_ de jazeran d'acier." He describes _pizane_ (otherwise written _pizaine, pusen, pesen_) as a collar made, or much in fashion, at Pisa. The jazeran armour was formed of overlapping plates. In the metrical romance of _Kyng Alisaunder_, edited by Webber, occur the lines-- "And Indiens, and Emaniens, With swordes, lances, and _pesens._" Weber explains the _pesens_ here as gorgets, armour for the neck. In more recent MSS. _pisan_ may be a contraction for _partisan_, a halberd. I cannot agree with your correspondent "A.F." (p.90), that the nine of diamonds was called "the curse (cross) of Scotland" from its resemblance to the cross of St. Andrew, which has the form of the Roman X; whereas the pips on the nine of diamonds are arranged in the form of the letter H. "Mend the instance." Erratum. P. 181 col. 2. line 3., for _obscurities_, read _obscenities._ Cambridge, Jan. 31. 1850. GASTROS. _Pokership--God tempers the Wind_.--I am disposed to think that _Parkership_ will turn out to be the right explanation, because almost every forest or chase contained a _fenced park_, in which the deer were confined; and the charge of the woods and park might be consigned to the same person; and the error in spelling the word was probably copied from one genealogist to another. Nevertheless, Mr. Corney's conjecture may be right, as Forby (_Vocabulary,_ vol. ii. p. 258.) mentions Poke-Day as the day on which the allowance of corn is made to the labourers, _who, in some places, receive a part of their wages in that form._ Now the _Pokerer_ might be the officer who distributed the grain on these occasions. I open my note to add, that Mr. Gutch (No. 14. p. 211.) will find, in Sterne's _Sentimental Journey_,--"_God tempers the wind_," said Maria, "to the shorn lamb." The words which I have underlined are printed in Italics in my edition of the work (London, 12mo. 1790), which may indicate that they are quoted from some other author. BRAYBROOKE. Audley End, Feb. 2. _Walewich or Watewich._--I have made the reference suggested by "W.B.M." Canute was residing at Walewich, and the Abbot of Ely was consecrated there by the Archbishop of Canterbury. This "Walewich" can be no obscure place, and we need not look for it in Cambridgeshire. I am inclined to think that the word ought to have been written Warewich, _i.e._ Warwick. Soham Mere (Mare de Soham) once covered 1369-1/2 acres.--Lyson's _Cambridge_, 254. Portum Pusillum, if not Littleport, was a place upon the Cam or the Ouse, within sight of Ely Minster. Does your correspondent suppose that Northmouth was among the fens? If so, he may consult _Inquisitio Eliensis_, or Dugdale's Map of the Bedford Level, which is in the Museum. J.F.M. Dec. 22.