Among the Ashmolean MSS. (No. 36, art. 296.) is a poem of 110 lines "Upon the most hopeful and ever-flourishing Sprouts of Valour, the indefatigable Centrys of the Physick-Garden." This, I apprehend, is a MS. copy of the first broadside mentioned by your correspondent. I shall merely add, the Bobarts, father and son, were personal friends of Ashmole and Ray, and that, in all probability, among their correspondence much curious and minute information might be obtained. EDWARD F. RIMBAULT. * * * * * "ITS." (Vol. vii., p. 510.) I was somewhat surprised to find, in No. 186. of "N. & Q.," two instances quoted of the use of the {579} word "its" in the version of the Bible. It has long been an established opinion that this word did not exist in it; and the fact has been recently referred to by two different authorities, MR. KEIGHTLEY in "N. & Q.," Vol. vii., p. 160., and Mr. Watts of the British Museum, in a paper "On some philological peculiarities in the English authorised Version of the Bible," read before the Philological Society on December 10, 1852. Feeling curious on the subject, I have taken the trouble of referring to several different versions of the Bible in the British Museum, and the following _variorum_ readings of the verses quoted by your correspondent B. H. C. are the result: 1. The Wickliffite version, before 1390 (edit. Forshall and Wadden): "And he shal ben as a tree, that is plauntid beside the doun rennyngis of watris; that _his_ frut shal [gh]ive in _his_ time."--Ps. i. 3. "Duke of the weie thou were in _his_ (_sc._ the vine) si[gh]t; and thou plauntidist _his_ rootis, and it fulfilde the erthe."--Ps. lxxx. 10. 2. Coverdale's Bible, 1536: "Y^t br[=i]geth forth _his_ frute in due season." "Thou maydest rowme for it, and caused it to take rote, so y^t it fylled the l[=o]de." 3. Matthews, 1537: "That bryngeth forth _his_ frute in due season." "Thou madest rowme for it, and caused it to take rote, so that it fylled the lande." 4. Cranmer, 1539: "Y^t wyll brynge forth _hys_ frute in due season." "Thou madest rowme for it, and whan it had taken rote it fylled y^e lande." 5. The Bishops' Bible, 1568: "That bryngeth foorth _her_ fruite in due season." "Thou madst roome before it, thou causedst it to take roote, and it hath filled the lande." 6. Geneva Bible, 1578. In this there are two translations, one "according to the Ebrewe," the other "used in the Common Prayer": i. "That wil bring forth _her_ fruite in due season." ii. "That will bring forth _his_ fruite in due season." i. "Thou madest roome for it, and when it had taken roote, it filled the lande." ii. "Thou madest roume for it, and didest cause it to take roote, and it filled the land." 7. The Douay Bible (Roman Catholic version), 1609-10: "Which shal geue _his_ fruite in _his_ time."