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