FALSTAFF, SIR JOHN, a character in Shakespeare's Henry IV. and Merry Wives. In the original draft of Henry IV Part I. he bore the name of the Lollard martyr, Oldcastle, which was changed in deference, it would seem, to protests from the fam ily. Shakespeare substituted the name of Sir John Fastolf (q.v.). FALTICENI, a town in the department of Baia, Rumania, on a tributary of the Sereth, on the fall line between the Transyl vanian Alps and the Bessarabian plain. Pop. (1930) 14,347, over half of which is Jewish. A branch railway runs for 15 m, to join the main line between Czernowitz (Cernauti) and Galata (Galati). The Suceava department (named after Suceava or Suciava, its former capital) is densely forested; its considerable timber trade centres in Falticeni. It has a summer fair.