The original spelling, hyphenation, and punctuation have been retained, with the
exception of apparent typographical errors which have been corrected without note.
Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained.
Punctuation and spelling were made consistent when a predominant form was found in
this book; otherwise they were not changed.
Mid-paragraph illustrations have been moved between paragraphs and some
illustrations have been moved closer to the text that references them. The List of
Illustrations paginations were changed accordingly.
Footnotes were moved to the end of chapters and numbered in one continuous sequence.
These variants of Boleyn were unchanged: Boleyne (p. 85), Boleine (p. 149).
p. 243: “with mine own seal joined thereto.”[1] Footnote anchor removed
by the transcriber as it lacks a corresponding footnote.