TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES
The following variant spellings are used in this text:
1) midsummer (3 times) and mid-summer (twice)
2) springtime (once) and spring-time (twice)
3) sweetmeat and sweet-meat (once each).
The two occasions on which the œ ligature is used have been rendered as "oe": "Coboea" and "Ipomoea", both on [p. 95].
The following amendments to the text have been made:
1) "remaider" changed to "remainder" on [p. 18].
2) "Eastern" changed to "Easter" on [p. 43].
3) A double quotation mark (") has been added after "shrine of Thomas à Becket" on [p. 55].
4) "Stratford-on Avon" changed to "Stratford-on-Avon" on [p. 61].
5) A double quotation mark (") has been deleted before "O E holihoc" on [p. 70].