By a notarial act passed 16th August, 1610, at Enkhuizen, Tryn Haickesdr., widow of the above-named Wagenaer, declared that the widow of Cornelis Claesz might make over to Jacob Lenaertsz all the above-mentioned maps, privileges, &c. See a resolution of the States-General of 13th September, 1610, in Dodt's _Kerkelÿk en Wereldlÿk Archief_, p. 23. (_Ecclesiastical and Civil Archives_).--_From the Navorscher._ ELSEVIER. Leyden. J. A. de Chalmot, in his _Biographical Dictionary of the Netherlands_, vol. vii. p. 251., names as author, or rather as compiler of this work, Isaak Commelin, born at Amsterdam 19th October, 1598, died 3rd Jan. 1676, and quotes Kasp. Commelin's _Description of Amsterdam_, which I have not at hand to refer to. The work was printed at Amsterdam without printer's name: each _voyagie_ or description is separately paged; some places have a French text. In the second volume is a _Generale beschryvinghe van Indien, &c._, naer de copÿe ghedruckt tot Batavia in de druckerÿe van Gansenpen, anno 1638 (_General Description of India, &c._, according to the copy printed at Batavia at the office of the _Goose Quill_). Whether any other pieces which Commelin compiled had been earlier printed, I have not been able to discover.--_From the Navorscher._ J. C. K. * * * * * "ITS." (Vol. vi., p. 509.) The following are earlier instances of the employment of _its_ by the poets, than any that your correspondent seems to have met with: "How sometimes nature will betray _its_ folly, _Its_ tenderness, and makes itself a pastime To harder bosoms! _Winter's Tale_, Act I. Sc. 2. "Each following day Became the next day's master, till the last Made former wonders _its_." _Henry VIII._, Act I. Sc. 1. "On the green banks which that fair stream in-bound, Flowers and odours sweetly smiled and smell'd, Which, reaching out _its_ stretched arms around, All the large desert in _its_ bosom held." Fairefax, _Godfrey of Bulloigne_, xviii. 20., 1600. I doubt if there are any earlier instances among the poets. I have had no opportunity of examining the prose writers of the sixteenth century, but think they must have employed _its_ earlier than the poets. As we may see in the version of the Bible, and other works of the time, the English, like the Anglo-Saxon, long continued to use the genitive _his_ for neuters as well as for masculines; and _thereof_ for our present _of it_, _its_.