He was not the first to use that spelling and his chresonymy shows both spellings have been used almost equally.

It furthermore confirms, as James A. Davies has shown, that when drawn to contemporaries, Forster did not preimpose ideas upon his material as he did with those of the past, but presented 'honest revelation' bordering on explicitness.

In my above album of things that seem to make life pointful and worthwhile, […] this would constitute an exceptional entry.

Her's Agamemnon, an honeſt fellow inough and one that loues quailes, but hee has not ſo much braine as eare-wax, […]