Transcriber’s Notes

The cover image was created by the transcriber from the title page and is placed in the public domain.

In a few cases, obvious errors in punctuation and accentuation were corrected.

A couple of words with inconsistent hyphenization were standardized.

“villien for two or three days” changed to “[villein for two or three days]

“unbiassed by any theory” changed to “[unbiased by any theory]

“à priori” changed to “

“Archiv fur Geschichte Westphalens” changed to “[Archiv für Geschichte Westphalens]”.

“Zeitschrift fur die Geschichte des Oberrheins” changed to “[Zeitschrift für die Geschichte des Oberrheins]”.

“miltelrheinischen Territorien” changed to “[mittelrheinischen Territorien]

“Rheinganische Alterthümer” changed to “[Rheingauische Alterthümer]

“Zeitsch. f.d. gesante Staatswissenschaft” changed to “[Zeitsch. f.d. gesamte Staatswissenschaft]

“Let us see at anyrate” changed to “[Let us see at any rate]

“that in ano her” changed to “[that in another]