_Its_ (Vol. vii., p. 578.).--B. H. C. is perfectly correct in saying, that I was mistaken in my quotation from Fairfax's _Tasso_. It only remains for {183} me to explain how I fell into the error. It was, then, from using Mr. Knight's edition of the work for though the orthography was modernised, which I like, I never dreamed of an editor's taking the liberty of altering the text of his author. I love to be corrected when wrong, and here express my thanks to B. H. C. I inform him that there is another passage in Shakspeare with _its_ in it, but not having marked it, I cannot find it just now: I think it is in _Lear_. I have said that I like modernised orthography. We have modernised that of the Bible, and of the dramatists; why then are we so superstitious with respect to the barbarous system of Spenser? I am convinced that the _Fairy Queen_, if printed in modern orthography, would find many readers who are repelled by the uncouth and absurd spelling of the poet, who wanted to rhyme to the eye as well as to the ear. Let us then have a "Spenser for the People." THOS. KEIGHTLEY. _Oldham, Bishop of Exeter_ (Vol. vii., pp. 14. 164. 189. 271.).--MR. WALCOTT will be interested to learn, that Bishop Hugh Oldham was _not_ a native of Oldham, but was born at Crumpsall, in the parish of Manchester; as appears from Dugdale's _Visitation of Lancashire_, and the "Lancashire MSS.," vol. xxxi. His brother, Richard Oldham, appointed 22nd Abbot of St. Werburgh's Abbey, Chester, in 1452, was afterwards elevated to the bishoprick of Man, and, dying Oct. 13, 1485, was buried at Chester Abbey, Chester. T. HUGHES. Chester. _Boom_ (Vol. vii., p. 620.).--This word, expressive of the cry of the bittern, is also used as a _noun_: "And the loud bittern from his bull-rush home Gave from the salt-ditch side his bellowing boom." Crabbe, _The Borough_, xxii. Ebenezer Elliott is another who uses the word as a _verb_: "No more with her will hear the bittern boom At evening's dewy close." CUTHBERT BEDE, B.A. _Lord North_ (Vol. vii., p. 317.).--If C. can procure a copy of Lossing's _Pictorial Field-book of the American Revolution_, he will find in one of the volumes a woodcut from an _English_ engraving, presenting to our view George III. as he appeared at the era of the American Revolution. It may serve to modify his present opinion as to the king's figure, face, &c. M. E. Philadelphia.