Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note.
See below for other errors.
Punctuation and spelling were made consistent when a predominant
form was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed.
Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained.
Footnotes were moved to the end of the book before the index and numbered in one
continuous sequence.
Alphabetical sorting errors in the Index were corrected.
Corrections:
P. xxxix: Tregetor → Tregetour "... magicians and
tregetours...."
P. xlii: Corinens → Corineus "... the one named
Corineus, and the other Gog-magog....
P. 206: Juggeling → Juggling "... his performances were
denominated juggling castes."
P. 349: eason → season "... late years at this season for
'the young people...'."
P. 360: brenyng → bernyng "... the styncke of bernyng bonys."
Variants unchanged:
Taylor and Tailor.
Whitson-tide, Whitsontyde, Whitsuntide.
Other notes:
P. 119, footnote 465, and p. 369 footnote 1076: The citations
could not be documented and were left incomplete.
P. 128, footnote 479, and p. 269, footnote 830. The anchors for
these footnotes were missing and their placement by the transcriber could not be verified.
p. 151: "In the succeeding reign, 10 Henry IV., A.D. 1409,.... The meaning of the number
10 could not be ascertained and it was removed.
p. 280: The reference to footnote 1 at the end of the poem was removed as the footnote
could not be found.
p. 385: The words "In a manuscript at the Museum ..." and "... is perfectly genuine;"
were followed by the same footnote number. Only the second occurence was retained.